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First U.S. drone strike under new Pakistan prime minister kills seven
[REUTERS] A U.S. drone strike killed seven people and maimed three in northwest Pakistain late on Friday, security officials said, in the first such attack since the swearing-in of  Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... as prime minister this week. In his inaugural address to parliament, Sharif called for an immediate end to U.S. drone strikes on bully boys, which many view as a breach of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty. The bombing comes 10 days after a similar U.S. drone attack killed the Pak Taliban's second-in-command, Wali-ur-Rehman, and six others in a major blow to the bully boy group. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... said last month the United States would scale back drone strikes, only using them when a threat was "continuing and imminent". Friday's attack was on a compound near the Afghan border in North Wazoo region, 45 km (25 miles) west of the regional capital Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... . At least two missiles were fired from the unmanned aircraft and the corpse count could rise, the sources said. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-08 |
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