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Looks like its your turn to get lectured on schadenfreude
US Drone strikes in Pakistan are illegal under international law.
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Looks like its your turn to get lectured on schadenfreude
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Second drone strike kills four militants in N Waziristan: officials | DAWN.COM
MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike targeting two militant vehicles early Sunday killed at least four rebels in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.
It was the second missile attack in hours in Shawal district of North Waziristan region, considered a bastion of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The first strike which targeted a compound had killed at least six militants in Shuwedar village in Shawal district on Saturday.
Pakistan had strongly protested the US drone attacks in North Waziristan on Saturday morning.
“US drones fired four missiles on two militant vehicles in the early hours of Sunday, killing four militants,” a Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He said there were up to five drones flying in the area at the time of the attack.
Another security official confirmed the attack and casualties but said the identities of those killed in the strike were not immediately known.
A local intelligence official in Miramshah, however, put the toll in the strike at six.
It was the fourth drone attack since the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the second since Pakistan’s spymaster, Lieutenant General Zaheer ul-Islam, visited Washington earlier this month.
Islam’s talks with his CIA counterpart were also said to have focused on drone strikes.
Attacks by unmanned American aircraft are deeply unpopular in Pakistan, which says they violate its sovereignty and fan anti-US sentiment, but US officials are said to believe the attacks are too important to give up.
The latest attacks were in the same region where a drone strike on June 4 killed 15 militants, including senior al-Qaeda figure Abu Yahya al-Libi.
In protest at US drone attacks, local Taliban and Pakistani warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur have banned vaccinations in North and South Waziristan, putting 240,000 children in the region at risk.
They have condemned the immunisation campaign as a cover for espionage. In May, a Pakistani doctor was jailed for 33 years after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination programme as cover.
Washington considers Pakistan’s semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt the main hub of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.
The al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Waziristan, blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, is one of the thorniest issues between Islamabad and Washington.
Washington has long demanded that Pakistan take action against the Haqqanis, whom the United States accused of attacking the US embassy in Kabul last September and acting like a “veritable arm” of Pakistani intelligence.
Pakistan has in turn demanded that Afghan and US forces do more to stop Pakistani Taliban crossing the Afghan border to relaunch attacks on its forces.
There has been a dramatic increase in US drone strikes in Pakistan since May, when a Nato summit in Chicago could not strike a deal to end a six-month blockade on convoys transporting supplies to coalition forces in Afghanistan.
On July 3 however, Islamabad agreed to end the blockade after the United States apologised for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in botched air strikes last November.
MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike targeting two militant vehicles early Sunday killed at least four rebels in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.
It was the second missile attack in hours in Shawal district of North Waziristan region, considered a bastion of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The first strike which targeted a compound had killed at least six militants in Shuwedar village in Shawal district on Saturday.
Pakistan had strongly protested the US drone attacks in North Waziristan on Saturday morning.
“US drones fired four missiles on two militant vehicles in the early hours of Sunday, killing four militants,” a Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He said there were up to five drones flying in the area at the time of the attack.
Another security official confirmed the attack and casualties but said the identities of those killed in the strike were not immediately known.
A local intelligence official in Miramshah, however, put the toll in the strike at six.
It was the fourth drone attack since the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the second since Pakistan’s spymaster, Lieutenant General Zaheer ul-Islam, visited Washington earlier this month.
Islam’s talks with his CIA counterpart were also said to have focused on drone strikes.
Attacks by unmanned American aircraft are deeply unpopular in Pakistan, which says they violate its sovereignty and fan anti-US sentiment, but US officials are said to believe the attacks are too important to give up.
The latest attacks were in the same region where a drone strike on June 4 killed 15 militants, including senior al-Qaeda figure Abu Yahya al-Libi.
In protest at US drone attacks, local Taliban and Pakistani warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur have banned vaccinations in North and South Waziristan, putting 240,000 children in the region at risk.
They have condemned the immunisation campaign as a cover for espionage. In May, a Pakistani doctor was jailed for 33 years after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination programme as cover.
Washington considers Pakistan’s semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt the main hub of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.
The al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Waziristan, blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, is one of the thorniest issues between Islamabad and Washington.
Washington has long demanded that Pakistan take action against the Haqqanis, whom the United States accused of attacking the US embassy in Kabul last September and acting like a “veritable arm” of Pakistani intelligence.
Pakistan has in turn demanded that Afghan and US forces do more to stop Pakistani Taliban crossing the Afghan border to relaunch attacks on its forces.
There has been a dramatic increase in US drone strikes in Pakistan since May, when a Nato summit in Chicago could not strike a deal to end a six-month blockade on convoys transporting supplies to coalition forces in Afghanistan.
On July 3 however, Islamabad agreed to end the blockade after the United States apologised for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in botched air strikes last November.
Pakistan Military requesting these strikes?
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In that case, these strikes can hardly be placed in the 'illegal drone strikes' thread.
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shame on USA
that's why I call US/NATO, the Enemies of Humanity, simple. they will never do the same with their own people no matter what, and they will never take care of common poor of developing countries, no matter what
. until pakistan doesn't come in the position to punish voters/tax payers of US/West, they have no choice other than to see all these killing of pakistani poor which would continue until US/West will have done their interests in this region. and a free Baluchistan, (if there is any plan regarding this), will simply put heavy pressure on this whole region as it will then give a very important geographical location to military base of US/NATO in this region. Im not sure how will pakistan be able to solve its disputes with this so called WOT, imposed on pakistan from both the sides of terrorism, from Al Qaeda and US/West both.......
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According to international law, it is illegal to use drones to kill non-combatant civilians. As per American law, it is illegal to drone a US-born terrorist. American taxpayers, whose hard-earned dollars are used in war efforts, and particularly in drone killings, are generally very sensitive to sense killings and destruction. Since 9/11, they are being fed on the phobia of Americas security. The US public is internationally naïve geographical location of the US and is generally unaware of the political and military developments around the globe. They believe what is being fed to them by the American establishment through a obliging media. The indiscriminate killing by the drones is now presented as a business case; the drones enterprise is cost-effective; it ensures killing of terrorists without losing a single American life. Those killed alongside the terrorists are a normal business loss, a collateral damage, which can be written off the books.
Read more at: The Passive Voices: Drone Economics: A business case for the killing machines....
Read more at: The Passive Voices: Drone Economics: A business case for the killing machines....
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US drone strike kills nine in North Waziristan: Officials
MIRANSHAH: At least nine militants were killed when a US drone targeted a vehicle in the Humzonee village, about 4km South West of Miranshah headquarters of North Waziristan on Tuesday at 7pm, a security official said.
The security official told The Express Tribune, that it could not be ascertained whether high-ranking militants were among those killed, but added that four missiles were fired on the vehicle by the drone which destroyed the vehicle.
Humzonnee village is inhibited by the Dawar tribe and is located close to the Miranshah market of North Waziristan.
Earlier on Sunday, at least six militants were killed when US drones fired missiles twice on Sunday in North Waziristan Agency.
US drone strike kills nine in North Waziristan: Officials – The Express Tribune
MIRANSHAH: At least nine militants were killed when a US drone targeted a vehicle in the Humzonee village, about 4km South West of Miranshah headquarters of North Waziristan on Tuesday at 7pm, a security official said.
The security official told The Express Tribune, that it could not be ascertained whether high-ranking militants were among those killed, but added that four missiles were fired on the vehicle by the drone which destroyed the vehicle.
Humzonnee village is inhibited by the Dawar tribe and is located close to the Miranshah market of North Waziristan.
Earlier on Sunday, at least six militants were killed when US drones fired missiles twice on Sunday in North Waziristan Agency.
US drone strike kills nine in North Waziristan: Officials – The Express Tribune
Theres no law that bans drones against U.S. born terrorists. Who the heck thought that up?
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So the drone bombing is still in full flow . I thought i might have stopped as of now .
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