The Voice For Peace is making an appeal to all the factions including US troops, Pakistan Army and terrorists to spare the women and children, who have been living in the war zone in tribal areas they have committed no crime. If the United States, Pakistan and other stakeholders have taken a decision to kill all the tribesmen so they should do that as no one can stop them, but at least we will be making an appeal to them to at least spare the women and children as they have committed no crime. They must be given the chance to live in this world. God the Great is watching the whole situation and is fully aware who is doing what. On the name of God the Great I am making an appeal to all the parties to spare the women and children, who have been living in the war zone. Please spare the women and children. Please.
According to an AP report, U.S. missiles struck a training facility allegedly operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant hide-out Friday, killing 15 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said.
The two attacks by drone aircraft took place in South Waziristan, a Mehsud stronghold close to the Afghan border, two officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
They were the latest in more than 40 such strikes by the United States against militant targets in the border area since last August. Washington does not directly acknowledge being responsible for the attacks, which kill civilians as well as militants.
The strikes came as the Pakistani military prepares for its own offensive in South Waziristan to eliminate Mehsud, who has been blamed for a string of deadly suicide attacks across the country that have killed more than 100 people in the past month.
One attack targeted an abandoned seminary in the village of Mantoi that was allegedly being used by militants from Mehsud's group for training, said the officials. The other struck a hide-out in the nearby village of Kokat Khel, they said.
In total, 15 people were killed and 27 others were wounded, they said.
The U.S. has increasingly targeted Mehsud, who is viewed in Islamabad with increasing alarm, with missiles fired from unmanned drones. Last week, the Taliban leader narrowly escaped a strike on a funeral for militants killed in an earlier drone attack. Eighty people died in the strike, although Mehsud escaped unharmed.
Also Friday, Pakistani warplanes bombed suspected militant hide-outs in neigboring North Waziristan, killing at least four insurgents and wounding seven others, intelligence officials said.
Those airstrikes hit targets where Taliban fighters killed 16 government troops in an ambush earlier this week, two more intelligence officials said, also speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Washington strongly supports Islamabad's campaign against militants along the Afghan border, which it says cross into Afghanistan and attack US and NATO troops.
On Thursday, some 4,000 U.S. Marines launched a fresh offensive in southern Afghanistan against the Taliban. Friday's missile strikes were not related to that operation.
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