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Title: Pakistani officials: US missiles kill 54 in NW
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Arizona Republic, Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic ... 1217pakistand-attacks1216.html
Published: Dec 17, 2010
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2010-12-17 15:45:21 by Red Jones
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Pakistani officials: US missiles kill 54 in NW Dec. 17, 2010 10:35 AM Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Three American missile attacks killed 54 alleged militants Friday close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials said. The attacks took place in the Khyber tribal region, which has been rarely struck by American missiles before over the last three years. That could indicate a possible expansion of the CIA-led covert campaign of drone strikes inside Pakistani territory. The Obama administration has intensified missile attacks in northwest Pakistan since taking office, desperate to weaken insurgent networks there that U.S. officials say are behind much of the violence against U.S. troops just across the frontier in Afghanistan. The first strike targeted two vehicles in the Sandana area of the Tirah Valley, killing seven militants and wounding another nine. The men were believed to belong to the Pakistani Taliban, one of the country's largest and deadliest insurgent groups. Later, missiles hit a compound in Speen Darang village where the Lashkar-e-Islam, a Taliban affiliate known to be strong in Khyber, were meeting, killing 32 people, among them commanders. The third strike took place in Narai Baba village and killed 15 militants, the officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. U.S. officials do not acknowledge firing the missiles, much less comment on who they are targeting. It is impossible to independently report on the aftermath of the attacks because outsiders are not allowed to visit the tribal regions. Human rights groups say there are significant numbers of civilian casualties in the attacks. Most of the more than 100 missile attacks this year inside Pakistan have taken place in North Waziristan, which is effectively under the control of a mix of Taliban, al-Qaida and related groups. The region, seen as the major militant sanctuary in Pakistan, has yet to see an offensive by the Pakistani military. On Thursday, President Obama urged Pakistan to do more in tackling extremists in the border lands. Pakistan's army has moved into several tribal regions over the last two years, but says it lacks the troops to launch a North Waziristan operation anytime soon and hold gains it has made elsewhere. U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter said the United States would like the Pakistani army to move into North Waziristan "tomorrow" but that he believed Islamabad's stated reasons for not attacking the region immediately. "I think there is a capacity issue," Munter told reporters Friday. "There is a great amount of capacity being used in holding the ground the Pakistani army has won at great cost." Pakistani officials protest the missile strikes, but are believed to secretly authorize and provide intelligence on at least some of them. Analysts also say targeting information for many of the attacks is likely to be provided by Pakistani intelligence officials. Also Friday, police said nine people were killed by mortar rounds fired by suspected Sunni extremists in two attacks in the northwest. The presumed targets in Hangu district and the nearby tribal area of Kurram were Shiite Muslims, said Hangu police chief Abdur Rasheed. In Hangu, three mortars missed a Shiite mosque, hitting a house, killing six and wounding eight. In Kurram, a mortar hit a house, killing three, he said. Anti-Shiite militants in Pakistan predate al-Qaida and the Taliban, which are also Sunni. These days, the groups are firmly allied and have overlapping memberships. They generally believe it is acceptable, even meritorious, to kill Pakistan's minority Shiites because they consider them heretics. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/12/17/20101217pakistand-attacks1216.html#ixzz18P61hVRc
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#1. To: All (#0)
Pakistan already sent troops once against this region waziristan once. I read the US is trying to convince them to do it again and make war on some of their own people. I guess these dirty muslims just want wars forever because they don't necessarily surrender very easily. < / sick joke >
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
I have to confess, I watched the CNN special "Inside The Taliban", and they're just a bunch of ass-backward hillbillies who could never pose a threat to anybody outside of that part of the world. My God, what the hell are we doing over there?!?
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good." -- Thomas Jefferson
bleeding money and blood for corporate profit? Advancing Israel's (and the Rothschilds) geopolitical agenda.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
The Taliban isn't even a threat to Israel, they're literally stuck up in the mountains of Ash-canistan eating chickens and goats. Fuck Israel, it's a shitty little nationette of thieves, liars, and stolen internet connetions.
__________________________________________________________ Rojo When are we going sailing? back on topic: It looks like the neos have Pakistan exactly where they want them. If the gov of Pakistan keeps allowing the attacks, the Paki people are going to vote them out and put in some hardliners. If the hardliners get in, the neos will use that as an excuse to attack in a joint invasion with India. Pakistan has always been the prize in the so called WOT, and if nukes fly, it's India not us who'll pay the price.
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
What Redcoats do best. Kill farmers.
Did you see this item today? Pakistanis are looking to hold agents of our rogue spy directorate turned pirate insurgency to account. Declan Walsh in Islamabad A Pakistani journalist whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike has started a legal push to charge America's top spy in Pakistan with murder. "We appeal to the authorities not to let Jonathan Banks escape from Pakistan," said Karim Khan, naming the alleged CIA station chief in Islamabad. "He should be arrested and executed in this country." Khan was speaking outside an Islamabad police station after lodging an application to prevent the US official from leaving Pakistan. He has lodged a separate civil suit seeking $500m (£314m) in damages from the US government. Khan says that his brother and son, both government employees, were killed in a CIA drone strike on their home near Mir Ali in North Waziristan in December 2009. Press reports named the target as Haji Omar, a leading Taliban commander. Khan insists that Omar was not in the house and that his relatives were innocent. "These men had nothing to do with the Taliban," said his lawyer, Shahzad Akbar. yes, I had seen that story about the Pakistani who is suing the CIA over those deaths. There have been times when a drone's missile killed 20 people and then even the US government said that none killed were the targets. On a routine basis 90% of the people killed by these drone attacks are not targets, just collateral damage. The Pakistani government kept statistics and they released a press statement once saying that their stats showed that 90% were not targets.
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Last night I watched "The Stoning of Soroya M." It's a film about the stoning of an unwanted wife in an inbred little Iranian village complete with loathsomely Islamist huband, hypocrite local mullah and corrupt mayor. You can't watch this movie, based on a true story, without feeling contempt for the sort of society that breeds this kind of ignorance. But when I read the sort of stories like the one that inspired this thread, I know that when a bomb hits a village in the Middle East and kills, 20, 40, 70 people at a stroke, it's not just fighting men that get killed. For sure their are women who cook and clean and wash clothes. There are quite likely children too. This is a kind of stoning also. And I pay to see that it gets done.
#2. To: Red Jones (#0)
"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
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
#4. To: ghostdogtxn, X-15 (#3)
My God, what the hell are we doing over there?!?
#5. To: Original_Intent, ghostdogtxn (#4)
Advancing Israel's (and the Rothschilds) geopolitical agenda.
"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
#6. To: Red Jones (#0)
Pakistani officials protest the missile strikes, but are believed to secretly authorize and provide intelligence on at least some of them. Analysts also say targeting information for many of the attacks is likely to be provided by Pakistani intelligence officials.
#7. To: X-15 (#2)
My God, what the hell are we doing over there?!?
#8. To: Red Jones (#1)
the US is trying to convince them to do it again and make war on some of their own people.
Pakistani journalist sues CIA for drone strike that killed relatives
Karim Khan is seeking $500m damages for death of two relatives in drone attack in North Waziristan
guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 December 2010 18.37 GMT
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#10. To: Red Jones (#9)
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