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Battle of Wanna
Military Operation by Pakistan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Battle of Wanat.
The Battle of Wanna was a March 2004 military engagement between the Pakistan Army and members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda at Azam Warsak, near the South Waziristan town of Wanna.[10] The army troops and intelligence paramilitary soldiers faced an estimated ~500 al-Qaeda foreign fighters holed up in several fortified settlements. The fighting ended with 17 soldiers dead.[8]
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Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
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~7,000[6] ~50 members of ISI CAD[6] | 400 Al-Qaeda fighters[7] | ||||||
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17 soldiers killed,[8] 11 soldiers captured, 33 soldiers wounded |
55 Al-Qaida fighters killed,[9] 150 fighters captured |
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It was speculated at the time that Osama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was among those trapped by the Pakistan Army, but he either escaped or was never among these fighters. After weeks of fighting, the ISPR admitted that it was actually Tohir Yoldeshev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was hiding there.[11][12]