A pair of US drone attacks against North Waziristan Agency yesterday have killed at least 16 people and wounded a number of others. A third strike today killed another eight, bringing the toll up to 24. The slain were termed “suspected terrorists” by Pakistani security officials, though there was no indication of any high value targets slain.
One of the strikes destroyed a home in the village of Bushnarai, while another destroyed a car in Datta Khel. The attacks mark 12 US strikes in the agency in the past 12 days.
And while Pakistani officials have conceded that a number of civilians, including children, have been killed in the strike, they have yet to identify any of them as a known militant, terming the vast majority of them suspects.
Which has been the case with most of the massive drone campaign of the Obama Administration. Though a handful of named militants have been confirmed kills, the vast majority of the “suspects” are never identified, or turn out later to be innocent civilians whose guilt was assumed because of tribal affiliations.
Blatant murder of civillians.
These drones and the people who operate them are utterly evil
I am trying to imagine the life of one these persons whose job it is to operate these drones/ I imagine this person to be a great family man with a lovely wife and two kids who he loves very much/ Maybe he even coaches the little league baseball team and goes to church every Sunday/ When he wakes up in the morning he has breakfast with his wife and kids and sees his kids safely off to school/ He then proceeds to the office and operates one of these drones that kill 7 or 8 innocent people and proceeds to go home and have dinner with the wife and kids/ Once dinner is complete he might play some games with his kids or watch some TV with his family/ He will then kiss his kids good night and proceed to do the same thing the next day/ If this is not the banality of evil then I do not what is/