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US drone strike kills 4 in NW Pakistan
[Iran Press TV] At least four people have been killed in a US liquidation drone strike in Pakistain's northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials say.

The attack occurred late on Tuesday night.

US liquidation drone operations were halted in November 2011 after NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
 Arclight airstrikes on two Pak military border checkpoints in Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
 agency killed 24 Pak soldiers.

The Arclight airstrikes sparked angry protests across the country. Pakistain's military issued new directives and warned the Pentagon that it would shoot down drones if they violate Pak airspace.

Pakistain also closed the border crossings that were used to transport supplies to US-led forces in Afghanistan and ordered all US personnel to vacate a remote airfield in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
 province.

Posted by: Fred 2012-01-11
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=336892