At least five people were killed today and three others injured when a US drone fired a pair of missiles at a home in North Waziristan’s Tappi village. Shortly thereafter, another drone hit Data Khel, also in North Waziristan. The casualties were described as “suspected militants” by intelligence officials, though they were all locals to the region.
The attacks were the fourth and fifth of the week, all of them in the area around the North Waziristan town of Miramshah. Previous attacks included a Sunday strike which killed a schoolteacher and a nine year old boy, and a pair of Wednesday hits on a mud hut, the second of which killed several members of the rescue team that arrived after the first.
Pakistani officials have expressed increasing consternation with the growing number of civilian casualties in the strikes, with President Zardari warning that it was undermining support for the war effort that the US has demanded Pakistan start in those regions. Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani added that US policies on this and other issues were threatening bilateral ties.
Despite the growing complaints and increasing questions about the policy’s effectiveness, a delegation of US senators to the region praised the strikes and vowed that they would continue. If the strikes continue at the frenzied pace so far throughout 2010, the issue will likely become a much bigger one.
Reports from Pakistani security officials say that of the 708 people killed in 2009 drone strikes, only a handful were key militant leaders and the vast, vast majority were innocent civilians.
Of course they are going to continue, there is only one difference between dubber the shrubber and obombthem. One can read off a teleprompter!
i love the drones they blow the basterds up nice
of course you do you sick zionazi. dont you have a cross burning to attend or something?
zion go too your rag head frends and give them some nice pork fat cookirs
We'll see how much you love those drones when they start using them to destroy people's homes in this country. Something I think these evil bastards are completely capable of. Remeberr the Branch dividians?
oh they blow up nice
Drone attacks are a cowards tool…just a cowardly as IED's. The only true heroes are the suicide bombers. Now that takes guts, no pun intended.
The U.S. will never "win" the war on terror as the war itself breeds terrorists. The only way to win this war is to leave the area to the people who have lived there for thousands of years, and to open meaningful dialogue…but that would take too many brains…It's much easier to kill everyone and let God sort them out.
Big mistake in this part of the world.
that is how so called Terrorists are created. if there were Drone strikes over the USA the reaction would be quite different, Obama is a Terrorist and needs to be defused.
i see Lois is at it again. i challenged him before to pick up Arms and join his Brothers on the Front Lines.
this Coward likes hiding behind a Keyboard.