WRAPUP 3-Pakistani warplanes strike Taliban's Waziristan redoubt
(refiles, fixing typo in headline) (For complete coverage click on [ID:nSP102615]
* Aircraft bomb stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader
* U.S. officials see Pakistani operation in South Waziristan
* President Zardari vows "war to the end"
By Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD, June 13 (Reuters) - Pakistani warplanes struck a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Saturday in retaliation for the killing of an anti-Taliban cleric the previous day, the military said.
U.S. officials, thankful their nuclear-armed ally has gone on the offensive to stop a Taliban tide sweeping the northwest, said Pakistan looked set to mount a significant offensive against Mehsud's forces in South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. [ID:nN12117633]
Mehsud's network is blamed for many suicide attacks including the assassination of Zardari's wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007. Continued...
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