US drone strikes again, killing eight in North Waziristan

[The Northerner]

A US drone strike, aimed at suspected militants of Turkmen, has killed eight people in North Waziristan – a tribal seat in north-west Pakistan.

This is the second strike in the area in 24 hours. In a similar strike on Wednesday four militants were killed.

The drone shot two missiles at a house in the Isokhel area near Mir Ali. A nearby mosque was also damaged, reports say.

Five people died on the spot and three others who were injured died afterwards, according to a local official.

Read more: http://www.globalnewsdesk.co.uk/middle-east-asia/us-drone-strikes-again-killing-eight-in-north-waziristan/0996/


Will any information be released proving that those who were slaughtered were undeniably "terrorists" and not just people slaughtered for being suspected "terrorists"?

Or, is being a suspected "terrorist" grounds for slaughtering anyone, anytime, and anywhere?

[xiamiam]

1. who knows at his point, I can hardly keep track in answer to your question

"Or, is being a suspected "terrorist" grounds for slaughtering anyone, anytime, and anywhere?.."

I hate this

[gratuitous]

2. "Due process" is just such a quaint concept

People really need to get over this unnatural attachment to a superannuated document in this high-tech age of the existential battle over . . . well, over something, that much is indisputable. "Suspicion" or "I got bored and pushed a button" are now the grounds we use to visit summary execution on persons around the globe. And that's good enough anymore. If you disagree, it's only because you want the terrorists to win. Or the militants. Or the suspected terrorists and militants. As if there's a difference.

[polly7]

3. Thanks Northerner.

God, I hate those f* things.

[Purveyor]

4. Well this will help in getting the supply routes open, indeed. NOT! eom

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Silly Pakistanis just don't understand that we're killing them for their own good.