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| September 20, 2003 | Saturday | Rajab 22, 1424 |
US bombs land in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Sept 19: US warplanes on Friday dropped two bombs along Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Friday, witnesses said they landed in Pakistani territory.
The bombs exploded in mountains in the border district of Angoor Ada in the tribal district of South Waziristan.
“Two bombs dropped by US warplanes hit Pakistani territory on the Durand Line,” local resident Mohammad Ghaffar Wazir told AFP by telephone.
Another resident said the bombs on Friday landed between the Afghan border village of Ziara Lita and the Pakistani village of Pash Khena.
A journalist based in the South Waziristan capital Wana, said the US bombers were pursuing Taliban fighters.
“US warplanes and soldiers are targetting Taliban in Paktika province but sometimes shells or bombs hit the Pakistani side of the Durand Line,” he told newsmen.
Rebels who fought an hour-long gunbattle with US troops at a base at Shkin on the border in Paktika on Thursday were seen fleeing towards Pakistan, a US military spokesman said Friday.—AFP
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