U.S. Military Releases Video Footage of Airstrike in Pakistan
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The Pentagon has said an air strike by US forces in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, said to have killed 11 Pakistani soldiers, was legitimate. (article 3)
The strikes underscored the often faulty communications involving American, Pakistani and Afghan forces along the border, and the ability of Taliban fighters and other insurgents to use havens in Pakistan to carry out attacks into neighboring Afghanistan. (article 10)
NATO and American commanders say cross-border attacks in Afghanistan by insurgents have risen sharply since talks for those peace deals began in March. (article 10)
The footage, shot by a circling drone, was issued after Pakistani government officials had unleashed a torrent of criticism over the U.S. military operation. (article 8)
Only a few minutes long, the video shows about six or seven men firing rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at unseen coalition troops from an area overlooking a valley in Afghanistan's Konar province, about 200 yards from the Pakistani border. (article 8)
Pakistan's military has condemned an air strike by Afghanistan-based US forces that killed 11 of its troops as a "cowardly attack". (article 4)
The dead included a major and were all from the Mohmand Rifles, a paramilitary detachment of the Frontier Corps, the force deployed in Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, a security official said. (article 9)
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Source articles
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 06/12/2008, 16 words)
- US releases border strike footage (BBC News, 06/12/2008, 673 words)
- US defends Afghan border strike (BBC News, 06/12/2008, 623 words)
- Pakistan condemns US air strike (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 682 words)
- Pakistan fury at deadly US strike (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 493 words)
- Pakistan's prickly foreign relations (BBC News, 06/10/2008, 1785 words)
- US attack raises fresh questions in Pakistan (BBC News, 06/12/2008, 914 words)
- U.S. Military Releases Video Footage of Airstrike in Pakistan (Washington Post, 06/12/2008, 764 words)
- Afghan Border Fight Kills 5 Pakistanis (nytimes.com, 06/11/2008, 265 words)
- Pakistan Angry as Strike by U.S. Kills 11 Soldiers (nytimes.com, 06/12/2008, 1459 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 06/11/2008, 11 words)
- Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 06/13/2008, 429 words)
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