American Forces Attack Militants on Pakistani Soil
By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH, ERIC SCHMITT and JANE PERLEZ
This article is by Pir Zubair Shah, Eric Schmitt and Jane Perlez.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Helicopter-borne American Special Operations forces attacked Qaeda militants in a Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan early Wednesday in the first publicly acknowledged case of United States forces conducting a ground raid on Pakistani soil, American officials said.

Until now, allied forces in Afghanistan have occasionally carried out airstrikes and artillery attacks in the border region of Pakistan against militants hiding there, and American forces in “hot pursuitâ€