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Posted on Jan 15, 2006

AP: PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets Sunday to rage for a second day against a purported U.S. attack on a border village, chanting “Death to America” and demanding U.S. troops leave neighboring Afghanistan, as more details emerged about the airstrike.

Pakistani intelligence officials said the reported target, al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri, had been invited to the attacked village for a dinner marking a Muslim festival on the night of the missile strike but he failed to show up. | story
The airstrike’s target, Al-Qaida’s top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, was apparently invited to dinner at the site of the attack, but decided not to go.

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