Latest US Attack Kills Six in North Waziristan
11th Drone Strike of 2010
US drones launched another attack against North Waziristan Agency today, killing six people in the tiny village of Deegan, west of Miramshah. All six people were locals, and officials said it was unclear which, if any, militant group they might be linked with.
The attack was the 11th drone strike into Pakistan (10 in North Waziristan and one just across the border in South Waziristan) in 2010. The attacks have killed scores of people.
President Obama has dramatically increased the number of drone strikes since taking office, and appears to have escalated the air war even more significantly so far in 2010, as 2009 saw 44 drone strikes which killed just over 700 people.
As with 2009, the victims have largely been apparent civilians, with only one named militant, al-Qaeda bodyguard Mahmoud Mahdi Zeidan, confirmed killed. Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud was initially reported killed but is now believed to have survived, though he may have suffered minor injuries in a drone strike aimed at him.
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paulBass
January 20th, 2010 at 8:07 am
isn't wonderful that people we say live in the past, are actually living our future?
Latest US Attack Kills Six in North Waziristan « NWO Observer
January 20th, 2010 at 10:08 am
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masmanz
January 21st, 2010 at 12:42 am
I think the whole purpose is to make people mad so we will be able to send more troops.
http://counterpunch.org/kelly01202010.html
See Togh Minds and Tender Heart by Kathy Kelly:
….. There is a young boy in Mir Ali, a town in North Waziristan, in Pakistan, who also lies awake at night, unable to sleep. Israr Khan Dawar is 17 years old. He told an AP reporter, on January 14th, that he and his family and friends had gotten used to the drones. But now, at night, the sound grows louder and the drones are flying closer, so he and his family realize they could be a target. He braces himself in fear of an attack…….
Andron
January 21st, 2010 at 12:47 am
The whole purpose is to make the whole World Mad.
Andron
January 21st, 2010 at 12:48 am
Do you have any more troops to send?
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Forty-Year Drone War – Rethink Afghanistan War Blog
January 24th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
[...] weapon of our present moment is the missile-armed unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, now doing our dirty work, an endless series of targeted assassinations, in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands. [...]
Nick Turse: The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047 | Read NEWS
January 24th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
[...] were 45 to 53 such strikes. In the first 18 days of January 2010, there had already been 11 of [...]
Nick Turse: The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047 | India News Blog, Latest News From India, Latest Blogs From India
January 25th, 2010 at 6:16 am
[...] were 45 to 53 such strikes. In the first 18 days of January 2010, there had already been 11 of [...]
The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047 « roger hollander
January 25th, 2010 at 11:16 am
[...] there were 45 to 53 such strikes. In the first 18 days of January 2010, there had already been 11 of [...]
The march of technology brings “The Forty-Year Drone War” « Fabius Maximus
January 26th, 2010 at 2:02 am
[...] weapon of our present moment is the missile-armed unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, now doing our dirty work, an endless series of targeted assassinations, in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands. Such weapons [...]
The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047 | America at War
January 26th, 2010 at 10:22 am
[...] there were 45 to 53 such strikes. In the first 18 days of January 2010, there had already been 11 of [...]
LARRYCOFFEY
April 21st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
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