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B-52 drops 500 pound bomb on Pakistani troops
Shooting of
U.S.
Soldier Led to Bombing
On January 1, 2003 Pakistani Urdu language newspapers (Ummat,
Ausaf, Difa', etc) reported the first bombing of Pakistani troops by the
U.S. air force on December 31. According to these published reports, a
soldier in the Pakistani border scouts unit objected to the activities
of U.S. troops searching for al-Qaida on the
Pak-Afghan
frontier near the village of Shikin.
The Pakistani soldier opened rifle fire on U.S. troops, seriously
wounding one U.S. soldier (who has been moved to Germany for
treatment). The Pakistani soldier, with a few other of his fellow troops,
then took refuge in a building.
The U.S. forces called in a B-52 to bomb the Pakistanis. The B-52
dropped a 500 pound bomb. {Here the news reports stop. There are no
indications on what were the results of the bomb explosion.}
The pro-U.S.
media
ignored the attack or played it down.
Other reports indicate that the U.S. dropped several other bombs and
one of these hit an
Islamic
school in the southern Waziristan area of Pakistan.
On January 1, the provincial assembly of Frontier Province
unanimously passed a resolution (presented by a Jamiutul Islam
representative) condemning the U.S. bombing of the Islamic school. (Source: Daily
Jang, January 2)
The Pakistani military has not yet given any details of the 500
pound bomb attack on its troops. Observers say that Pakistan is working
with U.S. to issue an appropriate statement.
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