15 Killed in U.S. Drone Strike in Pakistan Aimed at Taliban
Source: NY Times
At least 15 people suspected of being Taliban militants were killed by an American drone strike late Friday in northwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani intelligence official and local residents.
The strike, the first since Pakistan reopened NATO supply routes this week, took place in the village of Zoi Narai of the Datta Khel subdivision, the third-largest town in North Waziristan. A drone fired four missiles at a compound owned by a Taliban commander named Rahimullah, said a local resident who was reached by telephone.
The commander, who apparently was not present at the time of the strike, is thought to be a close aide of a local warlord, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who controls a vast part of North Waziristan, a restive tribal region used as a haven by many local and foreign militants.
Mr. Rahimullah, who uses one name, helps to recruit militants to take part in offensives against Western troops across the border in Afghanistan, according to local residents.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/world/asia/15-killed-in-us-drone-strike-in-pakistan-aimed-at-taliban.html
think
(11,641 posts)i thought obama was going to be famous for diplomacy. seriously.....
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it was called "gunboat diplomacy". Now it is "drone diplomacy"
indepat
(20,899 posts)militant who is on American soil, that country will be as circumspect as we in holding collateral damage down to an acceptable level.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)do you consider acceptable?
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Used to be that a "suspect" was at least allowed to live and face a trial - you know, with evidence and stuff like that.
Now, we have "justice" delivered from unseen machines in the sky, miraculously killing ONLY "dangerous militants" in a sovereign country that America is not at war with.
It's so depressing to see America descend to such a moral low point.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)It's much better to learn from a Democratic administration that two plus two equals five.
SylviaD
(721 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)aren't protected by the Constitution anymore. Why would anybody else be? To those about to jump my ass, read the Patriot Act, which was brought into law by republicans and democrats alike, and signed by a republican president. It was renewed by D&Rs, and re-signed by a democratic president.
may3rd
(593 posts)Pakistan doesn't condone these drone runs unless a high level chieftain is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Seems the population is distracted by the vagrant koran burner currently
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truth2power
(8,219 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)very easily by dismantling the ISI, stopping support of terrorist networks it created and having a fierce military action in the tribal regions to put an end to taliban for good.
Pakistan won't do it -- so drone strikes is the only answer. The world is not going to just ignore the threat.
The blood is on Pakistani hands. Period.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)They convinced Pakistan to re-open the NATO supply routes only YESTERDAY.
That didn't last long.. did it?
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Eugene
(61,937 posts)Source: Reuters
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan | Sat Jul 7, 2012 10:37am EDT
(Reuters) - The death toll from a drone strike in northeastern Pakistan has risen to 19, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Saturday.
Twelve people were originally reported dead in Friday's strike on a compound in the Dhattakel region in North Waziristan.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/07/us-pakistan-drones-idUSBRE86606920120707