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Explosions in northwestern Pakistan kills six
Monday, September 08, 2008 | No comments posted.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned U.S. drone aircraft, hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
Also today, a 16-year-old boy wearing a suicide-bomber jacket and carrying a hand grenade was arrested in an army-controlled area in the northwest, police said.
An intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of his job said at least six people were killed in the missiled strikes, including three foreigners and two children.
It appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by U.S. forces on Islamic militant havens in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
The targets apparently belonged to Jalauddin Haqqani, a veteran of the jihad against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s who American commanders describe as one of their most dangerous foes.
Also today, a 16-year-old boy wearing a suicide-bomber jacket and carrying a hand grenade was arrested in an army-controlled area in the northwest, police said.
An intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of his job said at least six people were killed in the missiled strikes, including three foreigners and two children.
It appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by U.S. forces on Islamic militant havens in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
The targets apparently belonged to Jalauddin Haqqani, a veteran of the jihad against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s who American commanders describe as one of their most dangerous foes.
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