At least three American soldiers were killed today and two others were wounded after a roadside bomb detonated in Lower Dir, part of the restive Swat Valley that the Pakistani military invaded last year at America’s behest. Over 50 other people were also wounded in the blast.
The US Embassy in Pakistan said the soldiers were in the region at the behest of the Frontier Corps (FC), Pakistan’s paramilitary group that operates in the tribal regions. They were attending the reopening of an all-girls high school, which was flattened in the blast.
Though it is well known that American troops are operating in Pakistan in a training capacity, the FC paramilitary convoy with which the troops were traveling were surprisingly secretive about the nature of the Americans, telling Pakistani journalists that they were “American journalists.” Initial bombing tolls listed the slain soldiers as “foreign journalists.”
The local Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) auxiliary, ostensibly destroyed during last year’s war, claimed credit for the bombing, and said that the US soldiers were indeed the target. Officially there are no US soldiers based in Pakistan, and only around 100 troops are reported to be there.
As a matter of Rule, do not believe anything the USA Military force-feeds you officially. if you are in a Country illegally, you deserve to be legally attacked, same Rule for all .
I agree entirely. I thought our troops were not even supposed to be there (Pakistan). Only our drones are allowed to enter and kill civilians . "Oh what a tangeled net we weave when first we practise to deceive" . Will the American people ever wake up?
robert you are a disgrace too america
Three more who died in vain for our warmongering political-banking-military-corporate empire. When will the American people ever learn the great truths of history? The road of empire is the road to death, bankruptcy and ruin.
another escalation gone unnoticed by the "freest" people on earth..
if it was bush you'd have mobs in the streets over this news but americans have proven them selves well suited for tyranny
Why isn’t the Democrats in Congress up in arms over this blatant act of Imperial act of war? I wasn’t aware that the USA was at war against Pakistan(or at least formally)! If Congress doesn’t immediately demand an end to this secret war of aggression, it surely must admit that all 535 members are violating their vow to uphold the US Constitution, which clearly defines that Congress is the only entity empowered to declare foreign wars.
Danny, the Congress hasn't formally passed a declaration of war for any war the United States has fought since the end of WWII. The Congress, the Supreme Court and the Executive routinely treat the Constitution as though it were nothing but toilet paper. If the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it is, then doesn't that make the members of Congress, the Supreme Court Justices and presidents lawbreakers (criminals) when they do certain things that the Constitution clearly prohibits them from doing? The answer
There are some members of congress e.g. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul who opposed the wars from the start. They should be spared the noose if there are war crime trials.