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2009-03-26 India-Pakistan

Pakistan deaths blamed on US drone missile

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Posted by tipper 2009-03-26 01:58|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Incredibly program, this.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-03-26 05:27|| 2009-03-26 05:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Work accident?

ISLAMABAD (AFP) Senior officials in Pakistan on Thursday denied there had been a suspected US missile strike in the northwest said to have killed four militants.

The officials rejected earlier reports from local officials of a missile strike overnight in North Waziristan, a tribal area which is semi-autonomous from the Pakistan government.

"There was no missile strike," said Habibullah Khan, a top official in the semi-autonomous administration of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which have become a virtual safe haven for Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.

Two senior security officials, who declined to be named, also denied there had been a missile strike but declined to speak on the record.

Local officials earlier said a suspected US pilot-less plane had fired two missiles on the compound of a pro-militant tribal elder, killing four people.

Residents in the area said they had heard an explosion in a house, but witnesses had no details about any possible casualties or bodies.

Posted by tu3031 2009-03-26 10:51|| 2009-03-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 If we had a CIA worth anything, all these missile strikes would be explained away as work accidents, gun sex, and pr0n parties gone horribly wrong.

Posted by Steve White 2009-03-26 11:21|| 2009-03-26 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Spontaneous combustion.

Posted by ed 2009-03-26 11:26|| 2009-03-26 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Target ISI HQ.

Posted by mojo 2009-03-26 11:45|| 2009-03-26 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 "Pakistan deaths ~~blamed on~~ credited to US drone missile"

semantics fixed

Posted by Clusoting Smith6304 2009-03-26 14:18|| 2009-03-26 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I am frankly SHOCKED. Shocked I tell you!
It's a disgrace.
We violated a sovereign nation's national borders and we can't even take credit for it?
Come on now.
Take credit. I mean we should take credit for every training accident, bad meal and case of clap in the area....make them afraid.

Posted by James Carville 2009-03-26 14:46|| 2009-03-26 14:46|| Front Page Top

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