US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan
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so let me get this straight, we send them massive amounts of food aid for the flooding this week, then the next day we drop bombs on their heads....unfuckingreal....we have the opportunity to help them significantly as they recover from their worst ever natural disaster, then we do this..hello mixed signals....
Officials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan
MIR ALI, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
Missiles struck two vehicles in Anghar Kala village near Miran Shah in North Waziristan — the second such attack since massive floods hit Pakistan in late July. The officials said some of the dead militants may be foreigners.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
The tribal region is a haven for various Islamist militant groups. The main organization operating there is the Haqqani network, which focuses on attacking U.S. and NATO troops across border in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's leadership has raised concerns the insurgents might exploit instability and chaos caused by the massive flooding, the country's worst-ever natural disaster. The U.S. has tried to improve its public image in Pakistan by sending significant flood aid, though Saturday's airstrike shows it is not willing to abandon the widely unpopular drone attacks.
The U.S. rarely discusses the covert, CIA-run missile campaign, but officials have said in the past it has proven a valuable tool in the battle against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters sheltering in Pakistan's tribal areas. Pakistani officials publicly condemn the airstrikes, but it is believed they have given tacit approval.
Separately, a bomb exploded at a checkpoint jointly manned by pro-government tribesmen and police in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing six people, government official Javed Khan said.
The attack happened in Mohmand, a tribal region 45 miles (75 kilometers) northwest of the main city of Peshawar. The dead included a policeman, a passer-by and four members of a peace committee set up to check militant movements, he said.
Officials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan
MIR ALI, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
Missiles struck two vehicles in Anghar Kala village near Miran Shah in North Waziristan — the second such attack since massive floods hit Pakistan in late July. The officials said some of the dead militants may be foreigners.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
The tribal region is a haven for various Islamist militant groups. The main organization operating there is the Haqqani network, which focuses on attacking U.S. and NATO troops across border in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's leadership has raised concerns the insurgents might exploit instability and chaos caused by the massive flooding, the country's worst-ever natural disaster. The U.S. has tried to improve its public image in Pakistan by sending significant flood aid, though Saturday's airstrike shows it is not willing to abandon the widely unpopular drone attacks.
The U.S. rarely discusses the covert, CIA-run missile campaign, but officials have said in the past it has proven a valuable tool in the battle against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters sheltering in Pakistan's tribal areas. Pakistani officials publicly condemn the airstrikes, but it is believed they have given tacit approval.
Separately, a bomb exploded at a checkpoint jointly manned by pro-government tribesmen and police in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing six people, government official Javed Khan said.
The attack happened in Mohmand, a tribal region 45 miles (75 kilometers) northwest of the main city of Peshawar. The dead included a policeman, a passer-by and four members of a peace committee set up to check militant movements, he said.
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remember this is a country currently devastated by an almighty flood.. some might even call it biblical.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Three of the U.S. casualties died in insurgent attacks and one was killed by a homemade bomb, NATO said.
The deaths bring the number of international forces killed in Afghanistan this month to 42, including 28 Americans, according to a count by The Associated Press. Sixty-six American troops were killed in July, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
Afghanistan: The Road Ahead
In the country's north, insurgents using a bomb detonated by remote control destroyed the vehicle in which former guerrilla commander Salaam Pahlawan was traveling as he made his way Saturday to government offices in Faryab province's Al Mar district, said provincial police commander Khalil Andarbi.
The attack also killed two of Pahlawan's sons, ages 5 and 10, and two bodyguards, Andarbi said.
What there killing US troops! and children! Did you guys know about this!....
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
i think youre misunderstanding what commy means by general strikes.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
In regards to the relief efforts, for all the crap that Americans has to endure for being a cold-hearted and imperialistic empire, I'm quite proud that the U.S. is always one of the first countries to respond to world catastrophes and rescue efforts.
you have to understand how they define "aid" ..
http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence ... n-aid.html
what "aid" really is - money to arms dealers or as they go by defence contractors ... you guys aren't building schools and hospitals ... your basically subsidizing the arms market for foreign countries ... countries that are in key strategic positions ...
edit: should read "you guys just aren't building schools and hospitals"
Some fear the air strikes are coming at the worst possible moment
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38823715/ns ... tral_asia/
After a little-noticed, weeks long disruption caused by the monsoons that devastated Pakistan, the CIA in recent days has picked up the pace of its missile strikes against Islamic militants with back-to-back attacks against terror targets that have killed at least 11 people in the country’s northwest region.
But the air strikes have raised fresh concerns among some Pakistani officials that the agency is resuming its lethal campaign at the worst possible moment, in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that has submerged one sixth of the country and left at least six million people homeless.
The U.S. government was building substantial good will inside Pakistan by rushing food and helicopters and pledging $150 million — more than any other country — to assist with flood relief, one senior Pakistani official told NBC.
But “all that could go down the drain” if the agency continues with aggressive air strikes right now, said the official who asked not to be quoted criticizing the U.S. “It’s one thing if they were getting some high value targets. But there are many in Pakistan, particularly in the religious parties, who are going to look at this and say, ‘here we have the worst national calamity in the history of our country and the U.S. is responding by conducting’ ” lethal military attacks.
The sharp drop off in the CIA pilotless drone attacks this month was never publicly confirmed by U.S officials mainly because the program — considered by Obama administration officials as their most effective counter-terrorism weapon — remains officially classified.
But the ferocity of the monsoons that hit Pakistan in late July at first made it all but impossible to keep the drones in the air, a U.S. official confirmed to NBC. “You can’t fly in a monsoon,” said the official. For a 20 day period, between July 25 and Aug. 13, the CIA failed to launch any missile strikes at all, the longest such period this year, according to an analysis by the Long War Journal, a publication that closely tracks the drone campaign. Before the hiatus, the CIA had mounted 49 attacks in 2010, amounting to an average of about two a week.
But in recent days, the CIA has stepped up the momentum of the drone campaign to its pre-flood intensity. Last Saturday and again on Monday, missiles fired from the CIA’s pilotless drones hit compounds associated with the terror network of militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Sirajuddin Haqqani. There have been no public reports of any significant figures who were killed in the attacks. But the Haqqani network has become one of the CIA’s chief targets in Pakistan: It is closely allied with al-Qaida and is believed to have been responsible for the Dec. 30 bombing of a CIA base in Khost along with multiple other terror attacks over the past year.
The attacks took place in an area of Pakistan — north Wazirstan — that is not directly impacted by the floods and a U.S. official familiar with the operations said that there is no reason the humanitarian crisis elsewhere in the country should cause any abatement in the U.S. government’s counter-terrorism operations.
“The United States is focused both on humanitarian relief and on counterterrorism. Those aren’t competing priorities,” said the official. “When nothing was flying in Pakistan, nothing flew. But that rather brief period is past, and during that time, the terrorists weren’t doing much on the ground. They weren’t out and about. The key is that our aggressive counterterrorism operations continue.”
Some U.S. counter-terrorism experts concur with the agency’s assessment about the need to keep the pressure on the militant groups, especially given the Pakistani military’s unwillingness to go after groups like the Haqqani network on its own. “The extremists have not let up because of the floods, nor should we let up on the pressure,” said Wendy Chamberlin, the former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan.
Btu Pakistani officials are increasingly nervous that Islamic militants will exploit the floods and use the disaster to their advantage, seeking to capitalize on public anger with the slow pace of relief efforts. Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, in an interview with foreign journalists on Monday, called the floods the “ideal hope of the radical.” In the early days of the flooding, one leading militant group, Lashkar e Taiba, even set up 15 relief camps, scoring a public relations coup at a time when Zardari was being publicly assailed for leaving the country to fly to the United Kingdom. At the same time, the Pakistani Army has been forced to divert an estimated 68,000 troops to flood relief as well as about 28 helicopters that would normally be dedicated to counter-terror operations, said the Pakistani official who spoke to NBC.
Just how much of an impact that will have on the overall counter-terrorism effort is unclear given that, as some U.S. officials point out, the Pakistani military has been largely resistant to going after the groups the U.S. most cares about, such as al-Qaida and the Haqqani network.
As it to underscore the intensity of the war that is still raging in crisis in spite of the floods, militant groups set off three bombs on Monday that killed 29 people. In one off the attacks, a teenage suicide bomber strapped with explosives on his body detonated the bomb inside a mosque in South Wazistan where 200 worshipers were praying.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.
The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.
The country is also home to many enemies of the U.S. that Washington has frequently targeted with drone attacks. A U.S. missile strike Thursday killed five suspected militants in the seventh such attack in two weeks, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
The billiard hall in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, was hit by twin blasts about 10 minutes apart on Thursday night, killing 69 people and wounding more 160 others, said senior police officer Hamid Shakeel.
The billiard hall was located in an area dominated by Shiite Muslims, and most of the dead and wounded were from the minority sect, said another police officer, Mohammed Murtaza. Many of the people who rushed to the scene after the first blast and were hit by the second bomb, which caused the roof of the building to collapse, he said.
Police officers, journalists and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion were also among the dead, police said.
The sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack to local journalists. One of the group's spokesmen, Bakar Saddiq, said the first blast was carried out by a suicide bomber and the second was a bomb planted in a car and detonated by remote control.
Radical Sunnis groups often target Pakistan's Shiite minority, whom they believe hold heretical views and are not true Muslims.
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http://news.yahoo.com/bombings-kill-103-people-pakistan-185413160.html