US drone kills 22 in North Waziristan

[Devil Soul]

US drone kills 22 in North Waziristan

Updated at 1300 PST Thursday, March 17, 2011
MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike in northwest tribal belt on Thursday killed 22 suspected militants, security officials said, as the covert campaign ramps up in the border region.

Two missiles hit Datta Khel town, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district.

"A US drone fired two missiles and destroyed a house. 22 suspected militants were killed in the attack," a senior security official in Peshawar said.
US drone kills 22 in North Waziristan

 

[graphican]

I will be part of public protest on Friday against US Slavery and puppet leaders of Pakistan.

 

[Ahmad]

Missiles fired by a suspected US drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan province, near the border with Afghanistan, have reportedly killed at least 35 Taliban fighters, officials have said.

The drone fired two missiles in quick succession at a residential compound on Thursday, where a group of some three dozen alleged Taliban fighters were meeting, Pakistani intelligence officials told the Associated Press.

The strikes occurred three minutes apart and took place in the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region - the main sanctuary for Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters along the Afghan border.

"Militants were using this house as a training centre and used to meet here," a security official in Peshawar told the AFP news agency.

He said 10 other fighters were critically injured.

US drones have frequently targeted Datta Khel, known as a stronghold of the Taliban commander and al-Qaeda-linked warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who has focused his efforts on fighting foreign troops in Afghanistan.

Increased strikes

Missile attacks - believed to be carried out by unmanned drone aircraft launched either from Afghanistan or from inside Pakistan - have doubled in the area last year.

There were more than 100 drone strikes, killing over 670 people in 2010, compared with 45 strikes that killed 420 in 2009, according to an AFP tally.

There have been around 20 attacks so far this year. Most of the recent strikes have been in North Waziristan.

Washington does not acknowledge firing the missiles and reporters are barred from visiting the area, making it difficult to verify who is being killed.

Pakistani leaders formally protest the strikes, but its intelligence agencies are widely believed to co-operate in some of them.

 

[fida jan]

both the army and our govt have sold us out, the same old rhetoric same old result, innocents die, but nothing happens to aiwan e sadr

 

[blackops]

But it say taliban fighters died then why you guys are saying civilans died

 

[SAUD-404]

But it say taliban fighters died then why you guys are saying civilans died

Americans call every Muslims Terrorist so it doesn't matter what they call they just need a reason to eliminate Islam from this planet

 

[AstanoshKhan]

both the army and our govt have sold us out, the same old rhetoric same old result, innocents die, but nothing happens to aiwan e sadr

It was Pak Army and the Holy-ISI who killed thousands in Afghanistan by paving a way for the invaders (including Taliban's era) and breeding the Taliban under their nest. Now they unleashed them onto their own people as well, making millions homeless in Swat and Northern Areas, making thousands of widows and orphans both inside Pakistan and neighboring and they still continue doing it blatantly and proudly. And my ignorant and innocent Pakistani brothers still supports these killers unknowingly - killers of Humanity under the disguised banner of Islam.

 

[fida jan]

It was Pak Army and the Holy-ISI who killed thousands in Afghanistan by paving a way for the invaders (including Taliban's era) and breeding the Taliban under their nest. Now they unleashed them onto their own people as well, making millions homeless in Swat and Northern Areas, making thousands of widows and orphans both inside Pakistan and neighboring and they still continue doing it blatantly and proudly. And my ignorant and innocent Pakistani brothers still supports these killers unknowingly - killers of Humanity under the disguised banner of Islam.

this pak military is a fazad military, they kill by order of their american masters, and then buy f-16s from them, what an irony

 

[Truth Teller]

So what do you guys think should be done about the Taliban, the same Taliban who are using children as sucide bombers to kill innocent people all over Pakistan?

 

[Truth Teller]

The Pakistani Army sure have made mistakes, but how can you people forget all the sacrafices of Pakistani soldiers? The sons, fathers, brothers, uncles, who left behind their family and died for our country, died for ungrateful people like you.

 

[fida jan]

the low rank soldiers get sacrified between american orders and general kernail orders, but the foolish warmongering general gets all the benefits, gets a big land, becomes zameendar, gets huge pension after he retires, and builds palaces

 

[Truth Teller]

It was Pak Army and the Holy-ISI who killed thousands in Afghanistan by paving a way for the invaders (including Taliban's era) and breeding the Taliban under their nest. Now they unleashed them onto their own people as well, making millions homeless in Swat and Northern Areas, making thousands of widows and orphans both inside Pakistan and neighboring and they still continue doing it blatantly and proudly. And my ignorant and innocent Pakistani brothers still supports these killers unknowingly - killers of Humanity under the disguised banner of Islam.

Paving way for which invaders? Soviets? Wasnt It the Afghan rulers who had called the Soviets to Afghanistan In the first place?

And the Taliban were/are mostly made up of Afghans themselves. The Afghans fought the Soviets for themsleves, not for Pakistan or anybody else. They should not have tooken help from ISI in the first place.

What about the widows and orphans due to the Taliban attacks? The Taliban are not killers of Humanity under the disgusied banner of Islam?

 

[Cheetah786]

I will be part of public protest on Friday against US Slavery and puppet leaders of Pakistan.

I will be part of the Pakistani public that quietly supports the cleaning of Pakistan by the Americans

 

[Truth Teller]

the low rank soldiers get sacrified between american orders and general kernail orders, but the foolish warmongering general gets all the benefits, gets a big land, becomes zameendar, gets huge pension after he retires, and builds palaces

These "low rank soldiers" are dying for Americans? Why the hell Pakistanis always have to blame others? Cant you have a look at yourself first?

I thought the "low rank" Pakistani soldiers were dying fighting the Taliban, you know the same Taliban who are using children as suicide bombers? Blowing up girls schools? Blowing up market places? Blowing up Suffi Shrines and Mosques? Whipping girls publicly? Executing Pakistanis publicly? Sending suicide bombers on Friday pray gatherings?

 

[Cheetah786]

Americans call every Muslims Terrorist so it doesn't matter what they call they just need a reason to eliminate Islam from this planet

Wrong

Wahabi Tali bans call every Muslim that dont agree with there british created religion an infidel and try killing them so it doesn't matter to me and rest of the civilized Muslim how the Americans eliminate terrorist in Pakistan and Afghanistan as long as they get the job done