Civilians Among 17 Killed in Latest US Drone Strikes
Drone Attacked Crowd of Civilians Rescuing Victims of Previous Drone
An unknown number of civilians were slain today in Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, when US drones launched a pair of attacks on a site which left at least 17 people killed and several wounded.
The first drone strike targeted a vehicle which Pakistani officials say was “carrying some miscreants.” The attack killed at least eight people and collapsed a nearby home, which is what precipitated the second attack.
A crowd of civilians gathered around the collapsed building, trying to pull people from the rubble, when a second drone fired missiles into the crowd, killing at least nine people and wounding several others.
“Miscreants” aside, it was unclear if any of those killed were militants of any significant faction, and Pakistani officials say there was no evidence any high-value target at the site. The area is controlled by a nominally “Taliban” militant faction which currently has a peace deal with the Pakistani government.
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Steve Hogan
March 11th, 2010 at 4:58 am
The Nobel Peace Prize winner continues to spread cheer and goodwill throughout the world. I feel so fortunate having Obama the Magnificent leading the way.
W_ThePoster
March 11th, 2010 at 5:09 am
What on earth happened to the Petraeus memo? Nobody got it? This seems to me to be nothing but terrorist bombing.
Heathcliff_Maw
March 11th, 2010 at 6:04 am
The miscreants are in Washington, DC.
Thomas T.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Mass murder, nothing less.
louis a goretti
March 11th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
the rag heads gotta duck
raz
March 11th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I think the message is clear to rest of the world. We are above the law. Not only has this mounted to extra judicial killing but murder of innocent people which we like to call "collateral damage". Bravo!
tioche
March 11th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
fascist amerika is on a collision course with karma !
Civilians Among 17 Killed in Latest US Drone Strikes « Dr Nasir Khan
March 11th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
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Henry_Clemens
March 11th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Warning to American citizens: any government that is lawless enough to murder anyone in the world in cold blood, at any time it chooses, is also a government that is lawless enough to murder its own citizens. Americans no longer live in a nation that is governed by constitutional law; we live in a nation that is governed by the arbitrary rule of an unrestrained, political-corporate oligarchy. Know this: If the value of the dollar and the economy totally crashes, and the power of the ruling establishment is seriously challenged, they will turn on the American people like a pack of half-starved, rabid dogs.
W_ThePoster
March 12th, 2010 at 2:02 am
I think you're right. We passed that line so subtly with 'collateral damage' bombing in WWII we didn't seem to realize, except maybe here, that we had made fellow human beings expendable in the pursuit of our frankly commercial interests. The Mafia would be proud.
I suppose in the scenario you depict they'll first round up all the 'unemployables' and put them in reservations where Arbeit Macht Frei or something, and then hunt down the libertarian resistors as 'terrorists'. I am not scared yet, but warned.