US airstrike kills vital Al-Qaeda leader
February 9, 2012 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
ISLAMABAD: US missiles on Thursday killed Al-Qaeda’s vital leader, one of the Americans’ main targets and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said.
Badr Mansoor, who reportedly sent fighters to Afghanistan and ran a training camp in North Waziristan, was killed in a pre-dawn missile strike near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials and a member of his group told AFP.
“He died in the missile attacks overnight in Miranshah. His death is a major blow to Al-Qaeda’s abilities to strike in Pakistan,” a senior Pakistani official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
His death was confirmed by one of his loyalists.
“Badr Mansoor was killed in the missile attack,” a militant among his group confirmed by telephone.
Intelligence officials in North Waziristan said Mansoor had been killed, but other Pakistani officials were divided.
“We’re not sure. We cannot give confirmation just like that,” one of them told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Four militants were reported killed in the pre-dawn missile strike, which targeted a compound in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan. AGENCIES
Obama Afghanistan Speech
December 2, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Obama Afghanistan Speech updates :- Al Qaeda wants to occupy Pakistani nukes: Obama.
US President Barack Obama says that success in Afghanistan is linked to Pakistan. Obama made an announcement to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and said that Al Qaeda wants to occupy Pakistan’s nukes.
Obama maintained that Pakistan faced the biggest threat from militancy. Announcing the new Afghan Policy Obama observed that US didn’t want to occupy any country but would fight for the safety of other countries and its own. “Security situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan is not satisfactory and Al Qaeda is plotting new attack. US is forced to stay and fight in Afghanistan and can not pull out its troops from there at this stage,” he added. Obama told that US troops’ pull out from Afghanistan would start after 18months, adding that US was ready to negotiate with Taliban who are ready to surrender. US President said that Pakistani people should know that US was the biggest supporter of their security and wanted a strong democracy there. “America has given the maximum aid for IDPs. We don’t want confrontation with Islamic countries,” he explained.
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Obama Afghanistan Speech was first posted on December 2, 2009 at 11:54 am.
