MIRANSHAH: Hundreds of tribesmen on Friday rallied to demand an end to US drone attacks, which they said were killing innocent people in the Tribal Areas, witnesses said.
More than 2,000 protesters staged the demonstration in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, shouting slogans against the United States and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), responsible for the missile attacks.
| 2,000 protesters, all looking up, worried that perhaps the rally was a mite too big for its own good... |
Shop owners, lazy unemployed students and other residents shouted anti-American slogans, and called for US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and the former CIA station chief in Islamabad to be brought to justice. “They should be arrested and punished by the courts in America,” said Abdul Khan, a student leader.
| Wonder if International ANSWER was there... |
Addressing on FridayÂ’s rally, a member of a local political committee, Cindy Sheehan Sarfraz Khan, denounced the drone attacks for killing innocent people, including women and children, and said that if it did not stop he would launch a long march to Islamabad in protest.
| That'll do a lot of good. Gilani the Humble will take note of your protest right before he orders the army to whack you. |
The insurgents regularly execute people they accuse of collaborating with the American attacks, so whether those attending the rally were doing so of their free will was highly questionable.
| All the ones named 'Mahmoud' were there against their will. You boys better have a talk with them... |
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