28 die in NWA drone attack

[Prometheus Bound]

Source: The News International (Pakistan)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

By Malik Mumtaz & Mushtaq Yusufzai

MIRAMSHAH/PESHAWAR: The US spy planes on Tuesday launched the biggest missile attack in North Waziristan tribal region and killed 28 suspected militants and villagers in the wake of heightening tension in the Pak-US relations over Faisal Shahzad's alleged involvement in the botched New York car bombing.

Official sources in Miramshah, the principal town of North Waziristan, said the unmanned US spy planes fired the biggest number of missiles at a time against a single target.

"It's terrible. They intend to intensify the drone attacks as the number of planes hovering over the area has gone up dramatically," remarked an official in Miramshah, who declined to be named.

The official and tribal sources said 13 people, including villagers and militants, were killed in the first round of missile strikes in the Doga area in Dattakhel subdivision while 15 others, believed to be militants, were killed in the second hit on a house in the Gorweek area.

According to sources, nine drones took part in the coordinated missile strikes in the mountainous Doga area in Dattakhel subdivision, located near the border with the Urgoon area of Afghanistan's Paktika province.

Read more: http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28794

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I really wonder if they killed even one actual murderer. No evidence. No trial. No follow-up. Just bomb, bomb away. Just evil.

[EFerrari]

1. They're basically daring angry people to come bomb us here.

I can't think of any other purpose to this. It is evil. And if the UN was functional, they would sanction us.

[Bonobo]

2. I too find it indescribably evil on our part. Evil and cowardly.

And we are being forced to PAY for this evil in the name of 'security'.
This shit will make us hated for a thousand years over there and they call it 'security'.
I call it madness and a make work project for the military industrial complex.

[ShortnFiery]

6. I concur. Summary Executions of *suspects* without charges, arrest, trial or sentencing ...

it's pure evil. I pray that if there's a merciful God, he/she knows that many Americans had no part of this horrific evil blessed by our "leadership." :grr: :cry: :nuke:

Drone excursions: Coming soon to the USA's southern border region? :scared:

http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/img/card-predator_yemen.jpg

[saigon68]

8. Ah the good old days

http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/img/card-iraq-liberty-checkpoint.jpg

[lib2DaBone]

3. This is the Republican War Strategy being continued without interruption..

[ixion]

4. exactly.

The War for Pax Americana continues, unabated by the 'change'

[ShortnFiery]

7. Hello? This is a "democratic " Executive Branch who is leading this vile effort. eom

[Doctor_J]

24. Attention. Clue needed in aisle 7

[Bonobo]

5. Self-delete

[corpseratemedia]

9. then you make a little *-like joke about indescriminate murder cuz * was such a great leader

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8317279

[Robb]

10. Good. nt

Edited to add: K&R.

[rug]

11. I take it you mean "good" that "militants" were killed and you don't give a shit about the villagers

[Robb]

12. I give several shits. You, however, don't know shit.

Just wanted an opportunity to point that out. Thank you.

[rug]

13. i know shit when I see it.

And I saw that in your post.

You're welcome.

[annm4peace]

14. trying to win the hearts and minds

don't mind the women and children killed, they are just collateral damage

[AngryAmish]

15. I thought Ice Cube was done with that...

[awoke_in_2003]

25. they're back..

they're pissed, and they have drones.

[elias49]

16. Anyone who thinks this is 'good' should explain

How do we target?
On whose authority do will kill by remote control?
Will Stanley McCrackhouse apologize to the survivors of the innocents killed?
How much $$ do tipsters get for fingering a certain house or village as 'militant'?
How long before armed drones are policing the skies over the US?
This was bullshit. It is bullshit. And it will continue to be bullshit policy and we'll end up with the criminal bastard Hamid Karzai eventually ruling over the rubble that was Afghanistan for who knows how long?

[placton]

17. mass murder n/t

[RainMickey]

18. Maybe we got lucky and there was an American citizen in one of those groups.

Just sayin'.

[EFerrari]

20. I was just watching Ben Linder's story again last night.

He was a young engineer working to bring electricity to rural villages in Nicaragua during Reagan's dirty war. His murder helped end our funding. He was 24.

[rocktivity]

19. Wow--these feuds between the rap groups are getting out of hand!

:dunce:
rocktivity

[Flaneur]

21. Ooh, we're just begging for another Times Square bomber, aren't we?

Tit for tat.

[Lance_Boyle]

22. Awesome headline. And they did it without Eazy E, too. n/t

[Doctor_J]

23. Hopefully this hack will get fired

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x535311

[Prometheus Bound]

26. Imran seeks steps to stop drone attacks

Published: May 12, 2010

ISLAMABAD – Chairman PTI, Imran Khan, has expressed his strongest condemnation of the fresh wave of drone attacks on North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, 11 May, and demanded of the Government of Pakistan to take immediate steps to stop them.

He stated that these attacks were killing innocent Pakistani citizens and were not being targeted at so-called militants at all. “If, as the Government and US believe, the drones were killing militants, there would have been no militant left in the tribal belt,” he added.

Imran demanded that an independent inquiry should be conducted each time whenever there was a drone attack and the media must be provided access to the site of the attack so that the truth could be established. He raised some pertinent questions relating to the legality or otherwise of the drone attacks:

Firstly, where does international law allow extra-judicial killings and that too by one state against the citizens of another state in latter’s own territory?

Secondly where is a provision for mass killings under international law? Thirdly, under what international law or agreement is the US violating the sovereignty of another state, especially in this case of Pakistan? Fourthly, how can a state simply eliminate mere ‘suspects’ by indiscriminate bombing? Surely in all civilised states, a ‘suspect’ is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

Imran expressed fear that these drone attacks were resulting in continuous loss of innocent Pakistanis’ lives and if they were not stopped, they would result in more suicide attacks. He pointed out that the US strategy in FATA had failed because the fight against militancy and terrorism was a fight for hearts and minds and the US had not been able to achieve this because of its focus on a military-centric strategy. In fact, as a result of US policies in this region, anti-American sentiments have increased across the FATA.
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/12-May-2010/Imran-seeks-steps-to-stop-drone-attacks

[Mari333]

27. oh yeah, we are evil. the MIC continues Bush era policies