With mass protests against the US killings continuing through the weekend, US drones once again launched multiple attacks on the North Waziristan Agency, killing at least 13 “suspects,” all of whom Pakistani officials identified as local tribesmen.
Today’s protests were at least as large as those on Friday, with reports of thousands of tribesmen taking to the streets and the marketplaces in the major towns closing to allow the shopkeepers to participate.
Protesters insisted that the attacks have killed only a small number of militants and by and large innocent civilians in the region. Though officials, predictably, labeled all of those killed today as “suspected militants,” they once again conceded that there was no information on any of the victims being militant leaders.
This has been par for the course for Pakistan’s Zardari government, which insists it “opposes” the drone strikes but has privately admitted repeatedly to having not only signed off on them, but openly assisted in their targeting. Though virtually everyone killed in the strikes, including children, get officially labeled suspects, after the fact studies show that indeed most of the victims are just innocent tribesmen who happen to live in a region inundated by US missile attacks, and that the suspicion stems entirely from them having been hit by some of those missiles.
13 killed in senseless violence.
Where’s the media screaming about the political views of the drone pilot. Where’s the hand wringing by congress about what a “national tragedy” those deaths are? Why aren’t people demanding we crack down on the “hate speech” that leads to such events?
Oh, I forgot. The dead are part of the 99% of the world’s population that DC doesn’t care about.
This is pure and simple murder.
A war crime which the United States is solely and reprehensibly responsible.
Obama and Petreaus are war criminals who should be tried and hanged for these crimes. There is no other possible way to view the actions of these criminals who are a blot on the face of this earth.
This is war crime and americans should be brought to Hague but who will do it traitor Zardari not. His aim is money and selling out pakistan.
Naturally poors from the poor are dying for american lies and hegomony.
I pray to God to punish america for wrong doings as a mad elephant is out of control and we have nothing to say or to stop.
Don't worry. The punishment will come, and, like in Pakistan and Afghanistan, even the innocent will suffer.
If enough Ants get angry they can bring down the elephant
If enough ANTS get angry – they can bring down THE ELEPHANT.
This is truly the "evil under the sun" spoken of by Ecclesiastes. Every dead Pakistani woman and child should be shipped to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC so America could see the bloody shreds left by its policies. Where are all the Right to Life people on this issue?
This would be funny if it weren't so criminally tragic.
Since the people of the Middle East are proving themselves over and over again to have the balls their Amerikan brethren lack, maybe, they'll depose their US-backed tyrants and kick the US in the face once and for all.
And reading this, another irony does not escape it and that is the fact those damn drones are already in place in the US, littering the skies, watching and waiting, ready to rain fire upon the Amerikan sheep on command. More and more, the US is treating their own citizens as they treat the poor people of these other countries, won't those exceptional, special and superior Amerikans shit in their pants when the own drones start dropping bombs on them. Ha!