A US drone strike in the Gomal District of the Paktika Province, along the Afghan border with Pakistan, killed 15 people who the Pakistani government says were fighters loyal to Mullah Fazlullah’s faction of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Fazlullah’s faction is a regional faction centered around Dera Ismail Khan, and indications are that they aren’t particularly favorable to the main branch of the TTP. The TTP is generally centered on the tribal areas, though the Fazlullah faction is in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwah Province.
The US drone strike comes amid Afghan and Pakistan officials trading blame for the rise of various Taliban factions along the border. Both nations regularly complain that factions use the other nation as a staging ground for attacks, and indeed the factions often span both sides of the border.
US drone strikes are increasingly common in Afghanistan, though exact figures on them are much less easy to come by than the ones in Pakistan, as at times they are reported simply as airstrikes, and the distinction between those and unmanned drones aren’t always apparent.
If you want to know how corrupt your nation is then look at how much of its government and daily events are spondored or presented with US co-operation.
When it seems that your nation is putting more effort into satisfying the needs of US interest then begin to clamor for more money from both US and their lackys, your leaders.
Try gaining enough cash on hand for a good gym membership, one where you can become limber enough to be able to bend over and kiss your and nations ass good bye.
Either that or flexible enough to bend and spread, it matters not of liberty, freedom or self esteem, just as long as you have time and can afford access to own gratification upon others less flexible.
When the condole fighter pilot gets off work his trigger finger is not bloody, nor are they hot and sweaty from physical exertion, their clothes are clean and when they flip the pc switch off they wipe their conscience clean.
The next day they reboot and await an adrenaline rush as once more they play the game of death.