Re: Wake Up, We Are Already At War
Pakistan hits out as US strikes again
- **Pir Zubair Shah and Salman Masood, Islamabad **
- September 14, 2008
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THE intensified American campaign against suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas has continued, prompting criticism from the Pakistani Government.
In the latest incident, two missiles fired from remotely piloted US aircraft killed 12 people in an attack on a compound in North Waziristan on Friday.
The missiles were reportedly fired just before dawn at a village near Miram Shah, the capital of North Waziristan.
The compound was believed to have been a training camp for militants, a Pakistani intelligence official said, and most of the dead were “Punjabi Taliban”, a term used for militants from Punjab province.
A Pakistani security official said those killed belonged to al-Badar, a group that had long operated against the Indian Government in…