Pakistan Security Brief – January 25, 2010
Security forces clash with militants in the FATA and NWFP; US drone crashes in North Waziristan; Taliban kills seven ‘US spies’; militants outside Peshawar destroy a NATO fuel truck; four people killed in a suicide attack at a Tank police station; roadside bomb in Balochistan kills one and injures six.
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Militants launched an ambush on a security checkpoint along the Afghan border in Kurram Agency on Saturday. 22 militants and two soldiers were killed in the ensuing gun battle. Security forces in the area also reported killing twelve militants, including one leader, as well as arresting 25 others and destroying multiple hideouts and arms and ammunition caches. On Monday, another attack at a checkpoint in Kurram resulted in eleven militants killed by Pakistani ground troops supported by airstrikes.[1]
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Tribesmen in North Waziristan claim to have shot down a US drone which crashed outside of Miramshah on Sunday. The Pakistani army has yet to make an official statement but denied a similar claim by militants when a drone crashed in South Waziristan in 2008.[2]
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Seven bullet-riddled bodies were discovered in North Waziristan on Sunday. A note written by the Taliban was found near the bodies claiming that the slain men were US spies and that the Taliban had more spies ‘in custody’.[3]
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On Saturday, militants outside of Peshawar ambushed and destroyed a fuel truck supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan.[4]
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At least four people were killed and eleven others injured on Saturday when a suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into the front gate of the Gomal Bazar police station near the city of Tank. The district police chief stated that he believes the suicide attack was a response to the military’s continuing operation in South Waziristan.[5]
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Officials in Balochistan have reported one security personnel killed and six others injured in a roadside bomb attack in Panjgur district. Police are still trying to establish who was behind the attack.[6]