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Title: Pakistan militants escape attack by US drone
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Scotsman
URL Source: http://www.scotsman.com/world/Pakis ... ants-escape--attack.6642814.jp
Published: Nov 29, 2010
Author: Rasool Dawar
Post Date: 2010-11-29 16:48:25 by Red Jones
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Comments: 4
Pakistan militants escape attack by US drone Published Date: 29 November 2010 By RASOOL DAWAR The targets of a suspected United States missile attack in Pakistan's north-west militant strongholds appeared to have survived yesterday by quickly abandoning their vehicle after a drone aircraft missed its first shot, local officials said. It was one of the few reports of anyone surviving one of the escalating barrage of missiles fired by unmanned aircraft, which have become a key weapon in the wider war against Islamist militants in Afghanistan. Pakistani television initially reported four people killed in the latest American attack in North Waziristan, where Taleban and al-Qaeda allies control safe havens outside the central government's control. However, two Pakistani intelligence officials who investigated said that no bodies were found and all their sources indicated the occupants of the car survived the attack, near the village of Hassan Khel. They said an American drone fired one of its missiles but missed the speeding vehicle, and its occupants quickly bailed out before the second missile hit and destroyed it. Yesterday's strike was the 13th this month. The US has sharply increased its search-and-destroy programme, launching more than 110 missiles this year in hopes of killing militant leaders who run terrorist training camps and plot attacks on Nato troops across the border in Afghanistan. The missiles appear to have been increasingly targeting moving vehicles - five of the six strikes in the past two weeks hit cars or lorries - which shows off the drones' usually precise aim. Pakistan officially condemns the attacks as a violation of its sovereignty and critics say they amount to an assassination campaign that may be against international law. However, the government in Islamabad tacitly allows the American aircraft to operate on its territory.
Poster Comment: it says they've been hitting cars and lorries. Lorries are trucks I think.
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#1. To: Red Jones (#0)
Practice for future engagements involving American-born "insurgents" driving 4WD trucks with Confederate flag decals.....
__________________________________________________________ They'll probably have drones programmed to seek out those confederate flags on pickup trucks and bomb them. think about it. you're driving down the road and the car in front of you is destroyed by a missile. Just another traffic hazard. move along folks.
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
...which will lead to the new political prank: slap a Confederate flag sticker on the roof of a police cruiser. OOPS!!!
__________________________________________________________ that would be a lot of fun.
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
The missiles appear to have been increasingly targeting moving vehicles - five of the six strikes in the past two weeks hit cars or lorries - which shows off the drones' usually precise aim.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
#3. To: Red Jones (#2)
They'll probably have drones programmed to seek out those confederate flags on pickup trucks and bomb them.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
slap a Confederate flag sticker on the roof of a police cruiser
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