Pakistani tribesmen have long had to deal with US drones inaccurately targeting homes in civilian areas, but the process has gotten more dangerous recently, as a US drone strike is invariably met with members of a death squad arriving in town to capture suspected informants.
The group, calling itself the Khoresm Mujahedin, usually shows up in a targeted town within 24 hours. They always have a suspect in mind, and while most protest their innocence they are usually taken off, a confession extracted, and they are never seen again.
Those who sell information to the US for drone strikes have been notorious for selling them false information, getting the US to target tribal rivals or enemies for them. The process of rooting out informants doesn’t seem very accurate either, and in the case of both the US and this new militant faction, the appearance of success seems much more important than actually targeting the right people.
Drone strikes have halted for the past month, since US warplanes attacked a pair of Pakistani military bases, and Pakistan’s Army has warned it will shoot down future drones over their territory. Still, the attacks, and the retaliation against locals for them, has done major harm to the tribal area.
This is true as rivality permits them for wrong informations and killings of innocents.
A tribal society is based on hatred and revenge.
That was my comment as well, in essence, Ghouri. Just like all of the "terrorists" who have died and/or are languishing in the US black holes around the world were sold out by their neighbors or others with whom they had a beef just for the random.
Coming soon to a town near you.
What else can the poor people of Pakistan do? Its a survival tactic, it makes the trading of human lives for corrupt American dollars a much more dangerous thing to do, it works.
gee seems like that miracle weapon ain’t what it appears as on the showroom limelite glare, the software (maggotwares™) still requires to reboot with a phonecall from a ground based super hereo volunteer who is most likely just in it for the money outta of a semi ambigous url within a corperate douche park or remote lair anamously, gorgon stare or gargoyl ghoul, predator or solicitous tool, accuracy not so much EROR 503, the partisain con-federate suppossidly on the ground not so much the beholder of the smirk fit for a devil as the datum generated by r & d’s perpetual shakedown cruise, if blood spills or something exsplodes equals results & effects enough to secure program success, funding & grants whoopee, & thats a maggotware problemo that ain’t so much rewrite as parasitically erased as seriel homocidal monsters show their true colours as cover of cowardice permits, what murdering chickensh!t reptiles from this nebulous pit, can’t ya just hear the yowling snivling pity from just about anywhere, i gotta mortage, my kids need new shoes, i have to pull the trigger or i’ll lose my co-ercied employ, again a software problem that has nothing to do with wireless apps but a lot to do with the wares of maggots & useful biologic tools
Like Raymond Davis, eh? While this is a great way to put an end to the snitching, unfortunately, just like with the "terrorists" the room for abuse here is more than ample. It's just a matter of time (if they're not already doing it) before these firing squads go shooting everybody randomly and end up causing more death and destruction than the drones themselves.
This is to be expected. The direction of the CIA since the end of the Vietnam War has had a deleterious effect on its performance. This is what happens when politics replaces profession.