Angoor Ada Raid

The Angoor Ada raid was a military operation that was carried out by the special forces of the United States Army on 3 September 2008 against Taliban fighters. The attack took place in the village of Angoor Ada in Moosi region in South Waziristan, Pakistan, close to the border with Afghanistan. Around the same time completed the Pakistani armed forces a four-week offensive in Bajaur, the northernmost of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, of which South Waziristan is the southernmost. The setting of the fighting allowed about half a million internally displaced persons to return to their homeland. The operation began at 3:00 local time clock. Although the United States had previously made ​​sporadic attacks with missiles on targets in Pakistan, this attack was the first known occasion, have been taken in the U.S. soldiers on the ground inside Pakistan against Taliban fighters. According to press reports at the military action twenty people were killed, including three women and four children to be, but it is not clear whether and how many of them were actually civilians. From the U.S. side has been shown that the women killed had helped the militants.

Three helicopters with forty U.S. soldiers on board were involved in the attack, but only one of them has sent soldiers, the other two remained in the air. Air support was also provided by two military jets. The U.S. forces attacked three houses and stayed a total of about half an hour in the village. The militants were apparently asleep when the raid took place, none of them should have been a high-ranking Taliban member. A U.S. military spokesman announced that several militants captured and some more were killed.

The Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in response to the military action against the Pakistan National Assembly, "It is not a quality target or known terrorist among the dead [ ... ] Only innocent civilians, including women and children, were to the goal. "

The Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, did not specify, however, declared that the United States do not seem to work very closely with the civil government [ in Pakistan ]. The Pakistani government issued a statement, which was, according to them protested sharply against the incident to the U.S. government and that such acts of aggression do not serve the common cause of fighting terrorism and militancy in the area. The Ambassador of the United States in Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, where she was handed a protest note.