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Pakistanis Say U.S. Raid Killed Foreign Militants

(New York Times) Carlotta Gall - The provincial government in Peshawar, Pakistan, said Tuesday that in addition to 18 civilians, four or five foreign militants were killed by the American airstrikes on Damadola on Friday, but that their bodies were removed from the scene by companions. "It is highly regrettable that this attack led to the killing of 18 innocent local people," said Fahim Wazir, the political administrator of the Bajaur region, "but this is also an undeniable fact, that at least 10 to 12 foreign miscreants were invited to a dinner in this village on that night." An American counterterrorism official said Tuesday that the attack had been based on good intelligence about the location of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
2006-01-18 00:00:00
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