Airstrike in Pakistan: a High Value Target?

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LGF sources are telling me that we may have gotten a very big fish in Pakistan, in this reported airstrike: Report: US strikes inside Mohmand tribal agency - The Long War Journal.

The US military may have conducted its fifth known strike inside Pakistani territory against the Taliban and al Qaeda bases this year, an unnamed Pakistani official told Reuters.

The airstrike is thought to have been carried out inside the Mohmand tribal agency. “There was an attack by a spy plane close to the Afghan border but we don’t have information about casualties or damage,” the unnamed Pakistani government official said.

UPDATE at 6/11/08 9:08:31 am:

Jawa Report is also hearing the rumors: The Jawa Report: [UPDATE: Zawahiri Killed?] U.S. Missile Hits Pakistani Target.

UPDATE at 6/11/08 9:11:52 am:

A contradictory report: Pakistan condemns ‘cowardly’ U.S. attack; 11 dead.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Wednesday an “unprovoked and cowardly” air strike by U.S. forces had killed 11 Pakistani soldiers on its border with Afghanistan and undermined the basis of security cooperation.

The soldiers were killed at a border post in the Mohmand region, opposite Afghanistan’s Kunar province, late on Tuesday as U.S. coalition forces in Afghanistan battled militants attacking from Pakistan, a Pakistani security official said.

The U.S. military said in a statement issued on Wednesday that it had coordinated the artillery and air strike with Pakistan, but was investigating further.

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