Catching up on their “one a day” average of drone strikes against Pakistan’s tribal area, the US launched four separate drone strikes against North Waziristan today, killing at least 11 and leaving an unknown number of others wounded.
The first attack destroyed a home in the Datta Khel region, while the second two strikes each destroyed vehicles. The final attack hit the rubble from the house, killing two people who were trying to pull people from the house.
The Pakistani officials who reported the attacks to the media termed everyone killed, including the people in the final strike as “militant suspects,” but as has been so often the case there was no indication of any “high value” targets, or anyone confirmed to have major ties to any particular group.
President Obama has repeatedly approved massive escalations to the US drone strikes, which were a comparative rarity during the waning years of the Bush Administration. Well over a thousand people have been killed in the drone strikes, though only a few dozen were ever confirmed to have ties to the militants, and large numbers were innocent civilians.
I find it highest degree of desperation to kill innocent people even if they are so called Taleban. There is no law in the world which allows such cowardy acts. Still is good as the americans are working for themselves to be hated.
These are acts brutality, cowardness, barbarism and a slap on the face of americans a cow boy culture.
Just try and imagine a reversal of this- Pakistan romote-controlled death robots flying into suburban Kansas and boming a local supermarket, claiming there were “suspected militants” among those shopping there! News stations would be ablaze with headlines:Terrorist Attacks on America! Both Obama and these CIA thugs should be arrested and charged with murder, but I guess such rules don’t apply to us here.
Is Pakistan that dangerous a nation to the point where every single drone strike- on target or not- can't help but kill 'suspected militants' wherever the missiles happen to land? If that's the case, why not simply do it bigger, better, and cheaper and use some of our older smaller nuclear bombs- that way we'd be SURE to take a bunch of 'suspected militants' out at any given time. I find it sickening that nations kowtow to other nations by reducing their own citizens to mere statistics and label them as 'suspected' anything in order to justify their being killed. Pakistan is home to some wonderful people, and I shudder to think of what that nation's future will look like when the West has run roughshod over it for a few years. May Allah (swt) keep you safe in his arms, Pakistan.