Pakistan air strike bodies buried

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maddezmom   (1000+ posts)       Fri Feb-01-08 08:10 AM
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Pakistan air strike bodies buried, Qaeda death not confirmed: army 
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The bodies from a missile strike that killed several militants have been buried and it was impossible to confirm or refute if a top Al-Qaeda operative was among them, the army said Friday.

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Our position is that who fired, who ordered, who removed the bodies etc is not known to us," chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP.

"We cannot negate nor confirm because the moment it happened, they removed the bodies and buried them. So, how would anybody confirm who got killed?" Abbas added, without elaborating on who buried the bodies.

A Pakistani interior spokesman said late Thursday that he had "no information" on the reported death of the Libyan militant, said to be a key link between Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080201/ts_afp/afghanistan...

gratuitous  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-01-08 09:04 AM
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1. We got the number 3 guy again, didn't we?
 At least, that's what the teevee told me last night. Don't tell me now that the news was rushed to broadcast without verification. Why, I might start to doubt what the teevee is saying.

 

sofa king (1000+ posts)       Fri Feb-01-08 09:39 AM
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2. Patrick McGoohan must be chuckling.
 Finally, someone has taken out more Number Twos than The Prisoner did.