Photo: The first live releases of the GPS-guided GBU-49 weapon from an MQ-9 Reaper took place May 13 at the Naval Air Warfare Center--Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif. (Courtesy photo from AFMC) From Washington Times:
U.S. strikes against terrorist suspects in Pakistan's tribal region have become more accurate in the past few months, leading to the confirmed deaths of eight senior al Qaeda leaders and a decrease in civilian casualties that have roiled U.S.-Pakistani relations, The Washington Times has learned.
Among those killed was the mastermind of a 2006 plot to detonate liquid explosives aboard planes flying across the Atlantic and the man thought to have planned the Sept. 20 bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, that killed 53 people, including two members of the U.S. military.
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