U.S. drone strikes kill 4 suspected militants in Pakistan

2011-05-13 20:57:44 GMT+7 (ICT)

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- At least four suspected militants were killed in on Friday after a suspected U.S. drone launched an air strike in Pakistan's volatile tribal region, officials said.

According to reports, a U.S. unmanned aircraft fired two missiles against a vehicle in the Kharkamar area of North Waziristan, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Miranshah, near Pakistan's Afghan border, local security officials told the Nation.

The drone strike marks the fourth since the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed on May 2 during a U.S. operation in Islamabad, Pakistan.

On Thursday, at least eight suspected militants were killed when a U.S. drone fired two missiles on a vehicle in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, and last Tuesday, strikes killed at least four suspected militants and injured another five people in the Baghar area of Angur Adda, located in the country's South Waziristan, also near the Afghan border.

Controversy has surrounded the drone strikes as local residents and officials have blamed them for killing innocent civilians and motivating young men to join the Taliban. This was the 28th drone strike in the region in this year.

In April, over 40 people were killed in U.S. drone strikes in the region, prompting thousands of Pakistanis to gather and protest against the attacks during a two-day sit-in.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in its annual report that the U.S. drones strikes were responsible for 957 extra-legal killings in 2010. Since August 2008, there have been over 250 drone attacks that have reportedly killed more than 1,500 people in north and South Waziristan

Pakistan's Afghan border, which the United States considers to be the most dangerous place on Earth, is known to be a stronghold of the Taliban's Haqqani Network, considered one of the top terrorist organizations and threats to U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

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Controversy has surrounded the drone strikes as local residents and officials have blamed them for killing innocent civilians and motivating young men to join the Taliban.

The latter, more young men join the Taliban, would improve the ratio number of suspects killed to civilian casualties in future drone attacks.

Do Targeted Killings Work?

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The Pakisanis now had enugh of this and will shut of Hatos suply rout to Aghanistan if those killings are not stoped.

Tiger

If one reads the international laws regarding Collateral Damages & then reads the laws regarding negligent homicide...... they would be hard pressed not to call these drones attacks.. acts of (intended?) negligent homicide.

Yet it is hard to consider it negligent when they know full well the ratio of *suspected* terrorist vs innocent civilians already killed.

For the term collateral damages to be used.... innocent deaths has to be unintended or incidental.

Embarrassing to the majority of US citizens ( IMO )

The US Industrial Military Complex is akin to a girls gone wild video

Edited May 14, 201115 yr by flying