After killing a record 700 civilians last year in at least 44 distinct drone strikes against Pakistan in 2009, the Obama Administration looks to be escalating the rate even further in 2010, to the point that drone strikes have become a decidedly ordinary occurrence.
Less than four months into the new year, the US has already launched 40 attacks and killed at least 268 people. The most recent strike yesteray in North Waziristan killed at least nine people.
The identities of the victims are never particularly easy to ascertain, but the number of named militants killed so far this year is trivial, as it was last year, when most of the “suspects” turned out to have no discernible relation to any militant faction.
Since taking office, President Obama has repeatedly escalated the drone strikes against the tribal areas, to the point where multiple attacks a week are a matter of course. With the normal winter lull seeing such a large number of strikes, a new record for killings seems all but assured again in 2010.
ya know going back to the wiki thing,whoo revues the record,the results on the target,what 95% errors,well why are so many errors repeated,ya see they have to be doing it just for wiki fun,with a capital D,making it wikid,well that and shaking down the"SOFT/ware/ and maggot ware installed in the total propaganda zoombie goon operational "system"flying pig skull and anthrax buzard bones flash horror player,oh thairs movement gotta go murder something,it's all for a totally mentally insane disease masquaraiding as reason,,,one more tyme ,WHAT WAS"it" again,oo,see the exscuse keeps changing,just shaking down the latest maggot ware downloads and uplinks,SORRY,well its war ,a word that has no meaning,gravity,honor or democratically accountable software record,just like its crimanalised big brothers, mass murder and sadistic glee
dragon… Am I missing some sort of stream of consciousness commenting here? What the hell are you talking about between repeated shots of whiskey or pulls on your bong pipe?
sorry if ya don't like the stylazations,ya see the way i see it,thair is no target,they/them are just murdering people to perpetuate an ethnocidal,demonically possesed state of ruin visited on these groups,scorched earth lite Kandahar is not real,it's all about loitering around Iran until the warlock-warhead thing & more horror than terror,without another FOIA request or whistle blower insider,what don't get excited lets just sit around and rationalize the cold blooded mass murder and its all legal cuz, well thair ya/i are again,discovery,justice,accountability to a un demonically possessed pro-democratic concept or sanctioning puppet why are the tapes and records concealed,strategic liabilities military tactics comprimised,,,OK ace everytime a missile is sold to a non combatant thats out of a fyre fight "zone is that assaination or just psychological operations & training exercises,must be really valuable targets to risk indiscrimanite aleination and hostile blowback from here to whats'recon got on that,forever or the dogs of war go to hell, target perps eta rondavou with a slow motion,oh i see ya can't see whats' off the screen,intell says the suspect is a combatant because aerial recon id'd target/suspect/perp definitly not pedestrian or civilian definitly a bomb manufacturing terrorist and 10 or 20 years tOO late,so important women and children are guilty also yet purely co-incadental,SORRY,well i guess ya got nothing to hide except the precedent and the fact yer a corperiete ghoul shaking down exspiermental equipment with no valid log or error records, live, thanks for the insight, ps i guess ya just fill in those logs after like a spread sheet making it up as ya go along,digitally,about those wikiD leaks ,,,oo,,,how did ya give an order to fyre on non-engauged suspect hostile insurgents,it's either recon,intell,or a free fyre zone on all male pedistrians not dead yet or hiding in thair house,that's ethnocide,a wide spread campaign of oppurtunistic (cowardly)mass murder,lets see some of yer greatest hits if ya got so much to be proud of SOILDER ya probably don't even have military control of the weapons yer "sponsoring do ya,an adajent atachae to wiki wonk with a "D,whair was i i was imagining again and it ain't even daytyme
yep,the gargoyles finally got a gog of thair waking nightmares war pigs hearts content,oh yeah thair still "ironing some bugs into it,on the happy,happy ,happy side of the ka-ching deal,the Israeleez are watching results closely and hope to announce major purchasing arraingments as soon as the intel software code can be cropped and shredded by remote lizard control (patent pending,action lizards sold seperatly) Kernal Tunauz is reported to be "extremely excited and can't wait to get home and try some out,in fact thair just waiting to see how legal precadents unfold,finally a car bomb for the whole prolifferated family
This is the history of Americans to kill innocent people in thew world as we know how they killed Germans with flat bombing and nothing has changed the same story is repeated in Pakistan.
The Pakistanis ask what for we are being killed, 40000 Pakistanis died. The whole infra structure has been destroyed in NWFP with finacial losses above 50 billion dollars due to corrupt politicians.
Pl. think to kill civilians will bring no peace only hatred, hatred, hatred for US
These drone strikes are a national disgrace. The wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians based on lazy, faulty intelligence. Obama is a monster with no soul.
The indescrimnate Drone strikes by the Oama war machine is state sponsored terroism more to "terrorize" the Pakistani population than to assassinate Al Qaida opratives. This state sponsored terrorism by the Obama war mogers is no different then Bush's. How do you like your "hope and change" so far?
"OK ace everytime a missile is sold to a non combatant thats out of a fyre fight "zone is that assaination or just psychological operations & training exercises…."
Penetration worthy of Gille Deleuze.
"Col. James Hutton, a spokesman for the United States military commander in Iraq, said allied aircraft shot down an 'Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle' on Feb. 25, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad."
NYT March 16 2009
Was Ahmadinejad counting drones among those 11,000 missiles that would be fired at Israel and at US positions in the Middle East if either the US or Israel attacked Iran?
Who needs their own nuclear weapons as a deterrent–the US is carrying plenty in the Gulf and environs, aren' t they? Israel too.
obviously Obama is not going to change except intensifying war machine with new techniques to control any rising power in the face of America.