On Ground Updates: Afghanistan/Pakistan - August 27, 2009

Afghanistan/Pakistan
US Missiles Strike & Kill Up to Eight in Pakistan
Thursday, August 27, 2009.

US Army file Photo

Reuters brings us the following report this early Thursday morning and their report starts off like this... Two missiles believed to have been fired by a U.S. drone aircraft struck a militant hideout killing six fighters in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, intelligence officials said... Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a similar attack in the same region on August 5th...
Read this report in full HERE
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GEO.TV reports it this way...
Eight killed in US drone attack - No immediate report regarding killing of any important Taliban leader
(One of these days we will get lucky and take out the really BIG Cheeses!)
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