At least 20 people were killed today and an unknown number of others wounded when US Predator drones struck a home along the border between North Waziristan and Afghanistan, The house was termed an “insurgent compound” by local officials.
The US fired at least six missiles at the house, reducing it to rubble. Local tribesmen (also termed suspects by officials) have surrounded the house in an attempt to pull bodies from the rubble, and the death toll is expected to rise.
US drones have killed well over a thousand people in drone strikes since President Obama took office. Though all but a handful were labeled suspects at the time only a handful of known, named insurgents were ever confirmed killed and the vast majority are believed to be random tribesmen with no formal ties to foreign militant groups.
As the toll rises it seems this will end as one of the deadliest attacks in months, though still far short of the June 2009 US attack on a funeral procession in South Waziristan, an attack which killed over 80 mourners.
Can't stop killing the village people. We are the most technologically advanced military in history and yet to 'protect' ourselves we have to kill simple villagers, herders and farmers halfway round the world. Is this textbook paranoia or what ?
No, it is racism and Nazism taken to next level.
The Af's were threatening us with their air force and navy, after which their army planned to march over here and demand we accept the government pressed on us.
How can the US government have the moral authority to prosecute murderers in the US when they endlessly murder people who happen to live outside their political boundaries. As the saying goes – murder is forbidden and will be prosecuted unless done to the sound of a bugal and marching feet.