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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistan deaths blamed on US drone missile |
| 2009-03-26 |
| A SUSPECTED US missile strike has killed at least four militants in a tribal region of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. The strike took place in the Essokhel area, around 30km east of Mir Ali town in the North Waziristan tribal region, early this morning. "Two missiles fired from a suspected US drone hit the compound of a local pro-militant tribal elder Malik Gulab Khan, killing four residents,'' a local security official said. Confirming the strike, another official said the nationality of those killed in the strike was not immediately known. The strike is the second in as many days by the drones, with a missile yesterday killing up to seven alleged al-Qaeda militants in the nearby Makeen area of South Waziristan. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 I am frankly SHOCKED. Shocked I tell you! It's a disgrace. We violated a sovereign nation's national borders and we can't even take credit for it? Come on now. Take credit. I mean we should take credit for every training accident, bad meal and case of clap in the area....make them afraid. |
| Posted by: James Carville 2009-03-26 14:46 |
| #6 "Pakistan deaths semantics fixed |
| Posted by: Clusoting Smith6304 2009-03-26 14:18 |
| #5 Target ISI HQ. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-03-26 11:45 |
| #4 Spontaneous combustion. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-03-26 11:26 |
| #3 If we had a CIA worth anything, all these missile strikes would be explained away as work accidents, gun sex, and pr0n parties gone horribly wrong. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-03-26 11:21 |
| #2 Work accident? ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Senior officials in Pakistan on Thursday denied there had been a suspected US missile strike in the northwest said to have killed four militants. The officials rejected earlier reports from local officials of a missile strike overnight in North Waziristan, a tribal area which is semi-autonomous from the Pakistan government. "There was no missile strike," said Habibullah Khan, a top official in the semi-autonomous administration of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which have become a virtual safe haven for Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants. Two senior security officials, who declined to be named, also denied there had been a missile strike but declined to speak on the record. Local officials earlier said a suspected US pilot-less plane had fired two missiles on the compound of a pro-militant tribal elder, killing four people. Residents in the area said they had heard an explosion in a house, but witnesses had no details about any possible casualties or bodies. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-26 10:51 |
| #1 Incredibly program, this. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-03-26 05:27 |