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The Northerner

(5,040 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2012, 05:08 PM Jun 2012

Deaths in latest drone strike in Pakistan

The third US drone strike in as many days in Pakistan has raised the three-day death toll in the aerial attacks to at least 27, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.

Monday's strike in the Hesokhel village of North Waziristan's tribal areas, was said to have targeted a hideout for fighters, officials said.

The latest strike, which officials said had killed 15 people, was the seventh in a span of less than two weeks.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reports from Islamabad.

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Deaths in latest drone strike in Pakistan (Original Post) The Northerner Jun 2012 OP

When is this going to rise to the level of provocation of war? RC Jun 2012 #1

RC

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1. When is this going to rise to the level of provocation of war?

Reply to The Northerner (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:34 PM

Jun 2012

If those drones were manned war planes doing the killing, it would already be...

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