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Serangan AS ragut lima nyawa

MIRANSHAH , Pakistan 19 Nov. - Sekurang-kurangnya lima orang terkorban termasuk warga asing dan tujuh lagi cedera dalam serangan udara dipercayai oleh tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) di barat laut negara ini berhampiran sempadan Afghanistan.

Pegawai keselamatan berkata, serangan itu adalah yang pertama membabitkan kawasan di luar wilayah kabilah yang didakwa syurga persembunyian anggota Taliban dan Al-Qaeda.

Menurutnya, serangan disasarkan ke atas sebuah rumah di barat laut daerah Bannu, bersempadan dengan wilayah kabilah.

"Serangan itu yang dilakukan pada waktu malam, telah memusnahkan rumah milik seorang ketua kabilah, Sakhi Mohammad.

"Sekurang-kurangnya dua warga asing turut terkorban dalam serangan itu," kata seorang pegawai kanan keselamatan kepada AFP.

Pegawai Pakistan dilaporkan sering menggunakan istilah "warga asing" bagi menggambarkan anggota Al-Qaeda.

Pegawai polis di Bannu, Alam Sheerani mengesahkan serangan itu tetapi tidak menyatakan maklumat lanjut mengenai kemalangan jiwa.

Serangan udara terbaru itu berlaku lima hari selepas dua serangan udara oleh tentera AS yang mengorbankan 10 anggota militan di daerah Waziristan yang dikatakan kubu anggota Al-Qaeda dan Taliban.

Serangan itu berlaku sungguhpun Pakistan berulang kali memberi amaran bahawa tindakan itu mencabuli undang-undang antarabangsa dan boleh meningkatkan rasa benci penduduk terhadap Washington.

Tentera AS telah menggandakan serangan di wilayah itu sejak Mac lalu, selepas kerajaan pimpinan Jeneral Pervez Musharraf digulingkan.

Presiden Asif Ali Zardari baru-baru ini berjanji tidak akan bertolak ansur ke atas mana-mana pihak yang mencabuli kedaulatan negara ini.

- AFP

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21 November, 2008

Taliban warns of reprisals as Pakistan protests US drone attacks

Gambar AFP Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam activists shout slogans during an anti-US protest rally in Karachi. A militant Taliban group has warned of reprisals in Pakistan if there was another US drone attack. Islamabad has condemned the latest missile strike in its territory.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A militant Taliban group warned Thursday of reprisals in Pakistan if there was another US drone attack, as the government condemned the latest missile strike in its territory.

Top Pakistani Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur warned he would mount revenge attacks if the US carried out further strikes in tribal territory after missiles fired from a drone Wednesday killed six people, including a major Al-Qaeda operative.

Bahadur's group has been accused by the United States of launching attacks across the border in Afghanistan, but it abstains from violence in Pakistani territory under an understanding with military authorities.

"We will start revenge attacks across other districts if the US drone attacks do not stop after November 20," Taliban spokesman Ahmadullah Ahmadi said in a statement. Speaking in parliament, Pakistani premier Yousuf Raza Gilani denounced the latest drone attack, which occurred at Bannu district in northwest Pakistan.

"These attacks are adding to our problems. They are intolerable and we do not support them," Gilani told the national assembly.

The foreign ministry also summoned Anne Patterson, the American ambassador to Islamabad, to lodge a strong protest over the strikes that have fuelled public anger, foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said in the capital.

Sadiq said the US diplomat was told that "continued drone attacks undermined public support for government counterterrorism efforts and stressed that these attacks must be stopped".

"It was underscored to the US ambassador that such attacks were a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity," he added. US spy drones have carried out more than 20 attacks in recent months but Wednesday's raid in Bannu was the first outside the lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

Security sources said the attack killed Abdullah Azam Al-Saudi, a senior member of Osama bin Laden's terror network.

They said US intelligence officials identified him as the main link between Al-Qaeda's senior command and Taliban networks in the Pakistani border region.

The Washington Post newspaper reported early this week that the US and Pakistani governments have reached a tacit agreement on drone strikes within Pakistani territory, but the premier told parliament this was not the case.

"Being chief executive of this country I want to assure you that there is no (such) understanding," Gilani said.

The prime minister said he hoped to resolve the issue with the American government through diplomatic measures and was optimistic the incursions would halt when Barack Obama's administration takes over in January.

But opposition MPs criticised the government in the parliament for failing to put pressure on Washington to stop violation of the country's territory.

"If we do not stop them, tomorrow they can attack Islamabad or Kahuta," MP Ahsan Iqbal said, referring to the country's main nuclear facility outside the capital.

Elsewhere in Pakistan Thursday, a suicide bomber killed at least six people when he blew himself up at a mosque northwest of Khar, the main town in the troubled Bajaur tribal region.

Separately, Pakistani jets and artillery killed 17 people, including up to four Uzbek commanders, as they pounded suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideouts in Bajaur overnight and into Thursday morning.

Pakistani jets also killed 20 militants in attacks on militant centres in the northwestern Swat valley, security officials said. Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt became a "safe haven" for countless extremists who fled Afghanistan after the US-led invasion toppled the hardline Taliban regime in autumn 2001.

The Pakistani military is currently engaged against Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Bajaur, where officials say more than 1,500 rebels have been killed and hundreds more captured since August.

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30 maut serangan peluru berpandu AS



PARA penduduk menyempurnakan sembahyang jenazah terhadap
mangsa serangan peluru berpandu terbaru dipercayai dilancarkan
oleh tentera Amerika Syarikat di pekan Miranshah, Kurram
di Pakistan, semalam. - AFP

PESHAWAR 16 Feb. - Sebanyak 30 orang maut, selepas satu peluru berpandu yang disasarkan oleh pesawat tanpa pemandu tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) memusnahkan sebuah bangunan yang digunakan Taliban di Kurram, di sini.

Menurut seorang saksi, Rehman Ullah yang berada di tempat kejadian, sebanyak 20 lagi mayat dijumpai di lokasi kejadian, menjadikan jumlah mangsa setakat ini kepada 30 orang berbanding 10 seperti yang dilaporkan sejurus serangan dilancarkan.

Tambah Rehman, dia turut ternampak pesawat tanpa pemandu berlegar di udara sebelum serangan dilancarkan.

''Sebuah peluru berpandu yang dipercayai ditembak dari pesawat tanpa pemandu tentera AS mengenai sebuah bangunan di kawasan Taliban di sini, mengakibatkan 30 orang terbunuh,'' kata seorang pegawai kanan keselamatan kepada AFP.

Serangan itu merupakan yang pertama dilancarkan tentera AS di Kurram, satu daripada tujuh kawasan Taliban di sempadan Pakistan, di mana Taliban berjuang menentang tentera Pertubuhan Perjanjian Atlantik Utara (NATO) dan Afghanistan.

Pegawai keselamatan Pakistan memaklumkan kepada AFP, militan Taliban berkumpul di lokasi serangan sejurus kejadian. Mereka juga tidak membenarkan orang ramai mendekati kawasan kejadian.

Seorang pegawai perisik berkata, terdapat beberapa kem Taliban di kawasan yang sama. - Agensi