US Predators strike al Qaeda camp in North Waziristan

Pres-Elect Obama ran the Senate Committee on Afghanistan, never once held a hearing on Afghanistan, and campaigned for 2 years on the lie that American forces somehow or another “took their eye off the ball” and were not actively attacking Al Queda in the area. The other day, he got his first Presidential Daily Briefing. Since then he’s surely had more, and no doubt was told about this strike and the long list of others over the past 7years (probably more than we know). Inexcusable, but no longer unavoidable.

By Bill RoggioNovember 7, 2008 7:20 AM
After a one-week lull, the US has struck an al Qaeda training camp inside Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt. US unmanned Predator aircraft fired four missiles into a camp in the village of Kumsham in North Waziristan, AFP reported. Up to 14 people have been reported to have been killed.

“The strike successfully destroyed the camp,” one source told AFP. “The militants were using the facility for training,” another source said.

Seven al Qaeda operatives and one local Taliban commander was killed in the attack, sources told the news agency. But there is no indication that senior al Qaeda or Taliban leaders were killed in the strike. The attack occurred in the Wazir tribal areas right along the border with South Waziristan. This is likely an area run by Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar. He shelters al Qaeda fighters, operates training camps in his tribal areas, and sends his fighters into Afghanistan to fight Coalition forces.

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