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2009-01-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by tu3031 2009-01-23 10:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Barry's answer? I hope...

Not a chance. President Obama hasn't got around to surrendering on that front.

Posted by ed 2009-01-23 11:41|| 2009-01-23 11:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Update...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Missiles fired from a suspected U.S. spy plane killed 10 people Friday in Pakistan just east of the Afghan border, security officials said, the first such strike since the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

At least five of the dead were identified as foreign militants, an intelligence officer said.

One drone fired three missiles into the village of Zharki in North Waziristan, hitting two buildings over the space of 10 minutes, the security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

At least 10 people were killed, they said. Their names were not released.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-23 11:54|| 2009-01-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Now up to 14.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-23 11:55|| 2009-01-23 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh noes, it's Zharkiograd!

Posted by ed 2009-01-23 12:16|| 2009-01-23 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 18.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-23 12:19|| 2009-01-23 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 At least seven people were killed, dozens wounded. The majority of those killed were foreigners," said local and security officials employing a term usually used to refer to Al-Qaeda militants.

"Two missiles fired by a suspected US drone hit a house in Wana," a senior security official told AFP, referring to the main town in South Waziristan district and a known hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists.

It was the second suspected US missile attack in northwest Pakistan on Friday, just hours after eight people were killed in North Waziristan.

Soon after the blast in the Gangikhel neighbourhood of western Wana, electricity supplies went down and the area plunged into darkness, local officials said.

Taliban militants immediately surrounded the site of the attack and barred locals from venturing close.

Wana, a known Taliban and Al Qaeda hub, is also the main stomping ground of Maulvi Nazir, a key Taliban commander accused by the United States of recruiting and sending fighters to Afghanistan to attack US and NATO forces.

Local officials said the target was a guest house owned by a local pro-Taliban tribesman.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-23 12:33|| 2009-01-23 12:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Taliban militants immediately surrounded the site of the attack and barred locals from venturing close.
This is so common that we whoever is behind this ought to routinely fire a second round just for them.

Posted by Darrell 2009-01-23 15:23|| 2009-01-23 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama Approved!

Posted by Parabellum 2009-01-23 17:29|| 2009-01-23 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Hellfire Vi*gra - look out tonight, Michelle!

Posted by Frank G 2009-01-23 18:09|| 2009-01-23 18:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I am shocked and sickened that Obama has dipped his hands into the blood of innocents. These people never got their day in court. They were never given their due process rights to a fair trial, unlike the people in Gitmo. They have been convicted of nothing. Their lives were ended by a summary extra-judicial execution utterly without warrant or legal justification. Obama is a war criminal and should be arrested and tried for his war crimes.

Change, indeed.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-23 18:19|| 2009-01-23 18:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Uh, NS, Obama's WH staffer(missed the name) on talk radio this am says Gitmo terrorists didn't get due process, are just poor refugees caught up in Bush's thoughtless warmongering, and suggests we implement Clinton's adopt-a-refugee plan from Kosovo days and take home these poor homeless detainees (no one else will take them) and feed them in our own homes!!!! I kid you not--I heard this with my own ears!!!! Of course, his own personal situation leaves no space for a pet terrorist, as they just refurbished the spare room into a home theater for his own son. He actually slammed the radio caller who called the plan asinine, saying he expected closed minds with cold, dead white hands to cling to their guns and attitudes. This is going to be the longest four years of my life.

Posted by ThealingBorgia122 2009-01-23 19:48|| 2009-01-23 19:48|| Front Page Top

#12 NS, your satire is a straight-line, logical extension of the muddled thinking WRT Gitmo and related matters. Or, as someone wrote somewhere recently , "nothing says 'no due process' quite like a Hellfire attack without warning".

I didn't have any worries the nitwit would continue these attacks. (for those troubled by my indelicate and disrespectful tone and words, let's just say first impressions are hard to overcome, and mine in this case were formed first-hand, in the field)

Posted by Verlaine 2009-01-23 23:02|| 2009-01-23 23:02|| Front Page Top

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