U.S. drone strikes kill 5 in Pakistan's North Waziristan

[News_Editor]

U.S. drone strikes kill 5 in Pakistan's North Waziristan

2011-09-24 08:27:58 GMT+7 (ICT)

MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- U.S. drone strikes on Friday killed at least five suspected militants in Pakistan's volatile tribal region, officials said.

The unmanned aircraft launched missiles at a house in the Mir Ali Khushali area of Pakistan's North Waziristan, which is thought to belong to local tribal leader Jamal Wazir, security sources told the Express Tribune.

The air strikes killed at least five people while several others are believed to have been injured, although the exact number is uncertain. Last month, U.S. drone strikes in North and South Waziristan killed at least 42 people in six air attacks.

In the first seven months of the year, 51 U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed at least 443 people, according to a report by Conflict Monitoring Center. The report showed that the two deadliest months were June and July, when 117 and 73 people were killed respectively. One of the deadliest attacks was carried out on July 11 and 12, when four air strikes killed 63 people, the report said.

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. Details about the alleged militants are usually not provided, and the U.S. government does not comment on the strikes.

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

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-affiliated Haqqani Network, considered one of the top terrorist organizations and threats to U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

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[flying]

Pakistan's Afghan border, which the United States considers to be the most dangerous place on Earth

Duh........

In the first seven months of the year, 51 U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed at least 443 people,

[Steely Dan]

Well you wouldn't want to needlessly risk the lives of your own troops in enemy territory when a drone can do the job. Make no mistake by the way, Pakistan is enemy territory and quite what Washington is doing funding the enemy is anybody's guess.

http://www.slate.com/id/2304641/

So what will President Obama do, now that the Pakistani political leadership has openly declared its whole state to be lawless, and outside the jurisdiction of U.N. resolutions, and available as a base for terrorist operations against our Afghan and Indian friends?

What indeed?

[flying]

Well you wouldn't want to needlessly risk the lives of your own troops in enemy territory when a drone can do the job. Make no mistake by the way, Pakistan is enemy territory and quite what Washington is doing funding the enemy is anybody's guess.

It is blatant disregard for innocent human life period.

It is another undeclared war that saps both resources & lives from both side.

Of course it kills way more innocents than anything else yet it continues.

How it is allowed is beyond me.

Risk the lives of our own troops?

No I am not for it at all as we should not even be there.

It has no objective & no clear possibility of victory...EVER

But if the powers that be deem it to be so important then yes

go & fight as responsible humans not war criminals. Discern innocent from evil before you fire mechanically at homes located next to others & later feign to believe you have not slaughtered innocents.

It is an embarrassment to the thinking American people.

Karma is a b1tch & when it falls like black rain all of us will get wet.

Edited September 27, 2011 by flying

[Naam]

all five persons killed on enemy territory were either Taleban terrorists or "insurgents". the Greatest Nation on Earth™ however regrets the collateral damage as the five killed children were on their way to school.

[chuckd]

all five persons killed on enemy territory were either Taleban terrorists or "insurgents". the Greatest Nation on Earth™ however regrets the collateral damage as the five killed children were on their way to school.

Please point out in the OP where it says five children were killed.

[Steely Dan]

all five persons killed on enemy territory were either Taleban terrorists or "insurgents". the Greatest Nation on Earth™ however regrets the collateral damage as the five killed children were on their way to school.

Please point out in the OP where it says five children were killed.

It's a shabby and libelous inversion of the truth, which is the Taliban have threatened to murder schoolgirls in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and have actually severely injured some throwing acid in their faces. Another point is if by any tragic accident the drones do kill civilians then this is unintentional in stark contrast to the Islamic militants who seem to kill their own with great gusto.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1541561/Taliban-campaign-targets-girls-schools.html