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Qaeda, Taliban men escape missile strike
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ASIANAGE on 10 October, 2008 02:49:38
 
BY OUR PAKISTAN CORRESPONDENT
with agency inputs
ISLAMABAD
Oct. 10: A US missile strike in Miranshah just missed top Taliban and Al Qaeda
leaders, officials said on Friday. "The missile targeted a high-level meeting of
Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders in Miranshah but missed most of them by just
minutes," a security official said. Two missiles hit the house of Taliban leader
Hafiz Sahar Gul in the North Waziristan district on Thursday night, killing nine
people, including six Arab militants.
He said some 30 foreign Al-Qaeda and pro-Taliban commanders were in the house
of Hafiz Sahar Gul but most of them had left minuets before the strike.
"The six Arabs who were killed are all believed to be lower level operatives,"
the official added on condition of anonymity. Officials did not immediately give
the identities of the targeted militants. But they said that they were not Al
Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Residents said the other three people killed in the strike in the remote
village of Tapi were women and children, but there was no official confirmation.