PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Hundreds of villagers from northwest Pakistan protested Wednesday the killing of 18 of their relatives in an overnight raid that they blamed on security forces, displaying the bodies of the victims in the provincial capital.
Two years later, militants shot down Black Hawk helicopters and killed American forces attempting to raid a warlord in the capital of Mogadishu.
Hours after authorities arrested Shahzad, security forces in Pakistan seized two or three people in a raid in connection with the failed bombing, a Pakistani intelligence source said.
After beating a humiliating retreat in 1996, Russian forces were sent back in 1999, following a rebel raid on the southern Russian region of Dagestan.
In May 2011, U.S. Special Operations forces killed bin Laden during a nighttime raid on the compound in Pakistan where he had been living in secret.
He said British forces also killed 20 irregulars in the swiftly conducted raid.
Two Sunni ministers said they were resigning in protest over Tuesday's raid, which has led to the worst violence between security forces and Sunni protesters in recent months.
Besides the furore over tear gas, the Justice Department and Pentagon must also answer allegations that an army Special Forces unit, Delta Force, was actively involved in the Waco raid.
The British military reported three of its soldiers were killed as forces moved to secure the strategic city of Basra in an early morning raid on Sunday.
Dozens of children between ages 8 and 13 were reportedly used as human shields by pro-regime forces during a raid on the village of Ayn l'Arouz in March, the report says.
Yemeni forces carried out an air raid at 2:30 p.m. near Alajasher in the country's far north, the Yemeni Embassy to the United States said in its statement.
Under the terms of the deal, Pakistan would allow US forces to conduct a unilateral raid inside Pakistan in search of Bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the al-Qaida No3.
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Heavy fighting was reported in Idlib, where the town of Al-Tamani'a was shelled by forces who tried to raid it, the group said.
The bin Laden shock was followed by a daring terrorist raid on a naval base in Karachi, and by accusations that the armed forces' spy agency was behind the murder of a journalist last month.
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They include members of all three armed forces along with members of the Merchant Navy killed as a result of enemy action and air raid wardens in uniform.
What the raid exposed is that the free world faces a cohesive alliance of enemy forces that collaborate closely in their joint and separate offensives against their common foes.
Only U.S. personnel took part in the raid, one U.S. military official said, dismissing earlier Pakistani claims that Pakistani forces were involved.
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