Tribal elders have announced a three day period of mourning in the wake of a Thursday US drone strike which killed over 40 people, mostly civilians, in North Waziristan Agency. The strike hit a tribal jirga for a tribe allied with the Pakistani government.
The deaths have sparked a major new crisis in US-Pakistan relations, which are still reeling for the Raymond Davis fiasco of the past month and a half. The Pakistani government summoned the US ambassador to demand an apology, but no such apology appears to be forthcoming.
But some tribal leaders aren’t waiting on an apology anyhow, instead promising revenge against the US for the drone strike, one of the largest in years in the region. In the statement by local elders, they promised to get revenge even if they have to “wait 100 years” and that they will never forgive the US for the killings.
A more immediate impact is that the Pakistani government has announced that it will boycott the talks scheduled for later this months on security in Afghanistan. Though Pakistan has cooperated with past US drone strikes and mostly shrugged them off, the popular outcry appears to have grown beyond their ability to ignore it.
wow bloodthirsty, vindicative and incompetent, the CIA!
The United States President has the right to kill anybody anywhere. End of discussion.
Mein Fueher is the whole of the law, eh? Dumbass!
Human beings have a right and obligation to DEFEND themselves from the Nazi scum.
I can't believe this! Those people won't accept a sincere apology? Anybody who has ever been robbed or severely beaten to the point of losing a limb or the ability to walk, knows that all the aggressor has to do is say "I'm sorry", and make a good act of contrition, and everything is good again. Catholics know this from their understanding of the liturgy. What's the problem? I was listening to the radio the other day, to a program called 'Karzai Talk', in which the leader of Afghanistan wrote off the slaughter of civilians because General Petraeus said "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry", like Obama's "I'll accept full responsibility for the well blow-out," is more than a joke. It's from the heart. And it sets the stage for a repeat performance that, no doubt, will be followed by another apology, from the heart.
Seeing American Servicemen being dragged at the end of a rope will be the only thing that will bring the American People to their senses and make them DEMAND that their mad leaders stop killing innocent civilians in other countries..