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India-Pakistan
US drones kill 21
2012-02-17
MIRAMSHAH: Missiles fired by US drones rained on suspected krazed killer targets in North Wazoo on Thursday, killing at least 21 people.

According to sources, six people were killed and two others injured when two missiles slammed into a compound in the village of Spilga near Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
. The identities of the persons who died could not be ascertained.

Hours later, another drone attacked a moving vehicle on the Zekerkhel-Khaisur road in Mirali tehsil.

Official sources said 15 members of a krazed killer group were killed. Their bodies were charred.

Local people rushed to the place and carried out rescue work.

Unmanned planes kept flying over the area throughout the day.

AFP adds: A security official said Uzbek Islamic fascisti had been killed in the attack on the vehicle.

Those who died in the first attack belonged to Badar Mansoor and the Haqqani network, loyal to the Afghan Taliban, another official said. Last Thursday, officials said Mansoor, described as the "de facto leader of Al Qaeda in Pakistain" had been killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan.

The New America Foundation think-tank in Washington says drone strikes in Pakistain have killed between 1,715 and 2,680 people over the past eight years.

According to an AFP tally, 45 US missile strikes were reported in the tribal belt in 2009, 101 in 2010 and 64 last year.

President Barack Obama
The Cambridge police acted stupidly...
last month confirmed for the first time that US drones attacked Taliban and Al Qaeda Islamic fascisti on Pak soil.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  hell it was just some aliens in a UFO getting target practice.
photo care of the central committee RT
Posted by: 3dc   2012-02-17 21:51  

#5  How do they know it was a US drone? Did they get the license plate? Was it marked "Secret US Asset"?

Maybe it was a Chinese drone, or maybe it was them wily JOOOOOOS again...
Posted by: mojo   2012-02-17 12:08  

#4  Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mullah Omar are safe in ISI houses just like the Haqqannis.
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303   2012-02-17 08:02  

#3  Any chance of aiming our drones at The emergence of the "Defend Pakistan Council" movement has raised suspicions that the group has approval from elements in the powerful military and security establishment, aiming to bolster public support for a hardline position. The group's rise comes as the military is trying to assert its position in renegotiating its troubled relationship with the United States and as Pakistan prepares for elections likely to take place later this year.
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303   2012-02-17 07:59  

#2  Tumbling bowling pins would be an inadequate graphic for this post. You'd need a picture of several lanes at the bowling alley...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2012-02-17 07:30  

#1  Local people rushed to the place and carried out rescue work at gunpoint.
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-17 07:20  

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