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Pakistanis protest deadly CIA missile attack
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-15 22:15

On Sunday, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, citing unidentified senior officials, reported that two clerics, Maulvi Faqir Mohammad and Maulvi Liaqat, both wanted for harboring militants, also were invited to the dinner with al-Zawahri.

A senior army official said Sunday that "foreigners" were reported in the area, but there was no information al-Zawahri was among them.

Al-Zawahri may have come to area to meet with his wife who is from the Mahmoond tribe, which is predominant in the area around Damadola, for last week's Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, according to one Pakistan intelligence official.

In a speech broadcast Sunday on state-run Pakistan Television, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf did not address the strike directly but warned his countrymen not to harbor militants, saying it would only increase violence within Pakistan's borders.

"If we keep sheltering foreign terrorists here ... our future will not be good. Remember what I say," Musharraf said in the speech, made Saturday in the northwestern town of Sawabi.

Many in this nation of 150 million people object to Musharraf's alliance with Washington in the war on international terror groups, seeing it as a veiled campaign against Muslims.

Ghafoor Ahmed, a leader in the coalition of anti-U.S. Islamic groups that organized nationwide rallies Sunday, called for Musharraf's resignation. "The army cannot defend the country under in his leadership," he said.

On Saturday, more than 8,000 tribesmen chanting "God is great!" took to the streets of a town near Damadola to castigate the attack. Elsewhere in the area, a mob burned the office of a U.S.-supported aid group near Damadola.

In Damadola, villagers said all the dead were local people and denied harboring al-Zawahri or any other Islamic extremists.

The strike left three homes hundreds of yards apart in ruins. People in the area said the blasts could be felt miles away.

Doctors told AP at least 17 people died, including women and children, but residents put the death toll at more than 30.

Bin Laden and al-Zawahri, both of whom have $25 million U.S. bounties on their heads, are believed to have been hiding along the rugged Pakistan-Afghan frontier since the U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.


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