US Drone strikes in Pakistan are illegal under international law.
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US drones kill five militants in SWA
11 JULY 2009
WANA/PESHAWAR: Five suspected militants were killed and several others sustained injuries when the US-operated spy planes fired two missiles at targets in Sangdala area in South Waziristan Agency on Friday. Tribal sources in the area said two US pilotless planes had been flying over the area since Friday morning. Finally, two missiles were fired by the drones at a house in Sangdala, located in the Mehsud tribal territory, where the Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud is in control.Five suspected militants were killed in the attack and several others sustained injuries, the sources added. The names of those slain and injured could not be known.
11 JULY 2009
WANA/PESHAWAR: Five suspected militants were killed and several others sustained injuries when the US-operated spy planes fired two missiles at targets in Sangdala area in South Waziristan Agency on Friday. Tribal sources in the area said two US pilotless planes had been flying over the area since Friday morning. Finally, two missiles were fired by the drones at a house in Sangdala, located in the Mehsud tribal territory, where the Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud is in control.Five suspected militants were killed in the attack and several others sustained injuries, the sources added. The names of those slain and injured could not be known.
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US strikes Taliban communications center in South Waziristan
By Bill RoggioJuly 10, 2009 2:04 PM
US strikes Taliban communications center in South Waziristan - The Long War Journal
The US military conducted yet another Predator airstrike against Baitullah Mehsud's forces in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in South Waziristan.
The latest strike targeted a Taliban communications center in the town of Painda Khel, according to the Associated Press. A US intelligence official contacted by The Long War Journal confirmed the strike.
Three Taliban fighters were reported killed in the Painda Khel airstrike. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda fighters were reported killed at this time.
By Bill RoggioJuly 10, 2009 2:04 PM
US strikes Taliban communications center in South Waziristan - The Long War Journal
The US military conducted yet another Predator airstrike against Baitullah Mehsud's forces in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in South Waziristan.
The latest strike targeted a Taliban communications center in the town of Painda Khel, according to the Associated Press. A US intelligence official contacted by The Long War Journal confirmed the strike.
Three Taliban fighters were reported killed in the Painda Khel airstrike. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda fighters were reported killed at this time.
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Drone strikes kill 8 in S Waziristan
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two suspected US missile strikes hit South Waziristan on Friday, killing at least eight Taliban. The first strike targeted one of Baitullah Mehsuds communication centres, killing at least three people, intelligence officials said. Two missiles struck the centre in the Painda Khel region, they told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Separately, quoting a private TV channel report, the Online news agency claimed at least five Taliban were killed in a drone attack in Tiyarza area. It claimed the drone fired two missiles at Taliban hideouts.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two suspected US missile strikes hit South Waziristan on Friday, killing at least eight Taliban. The first strike targeted one of Baitullah Mehsuds communication centres, killing at least three people, intelligence officials said. Two missiles struck the centre in the Painda Khel region, they told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Separately, quoting a private TV channel report, the Online news agency claimed at least five Taliban were killed in a drone attack in Tiyarza area. It claimed the drone fired two missiles at Taliban hideouts.
US strike kills four in Pakistan: officials
17 JULY 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A US missile slammed into a suspected Taliban compound in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border Friday, killing four people, Pakistani security officials said.
"The missile strike took place in Bahadur Kaley village, 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Miranshah. One missile was fired from the US drone, which targeted a Taliban stronghold," one security official told AFP.
"Four people were killed in the US drone strike. A missile from the US drone targeted a Taliban compound," said another Pakistani official.
The identity of the dead was not immediately known, nor was it clear whether any high-value target was present in the area at the time of the attack, two security officials told AFP, confirming the death toll of four.
A local intelligence official had earlier said three people were killed.
The missile targeted a compound in a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud on the border between the semi-autonomous tribal regions of South and North Waziristan, the officials said.
Source: AFP
17 JULY 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A US missile slammed into a suspected Taliban compound in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border Friday, killing four people, Pakistani security officials said.
"The missile strike took place in Bahadur Kaley village, 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Miranshah. One missile was fired from the US drone, which targeted a Taliban stronghold," one security official told AFP.
"Four people were killed in the US drone strike. A missile from the US drone targeted a Taliban compound," said another Pakistani official.
The identity of the dead was not immediately known, nor was it clear whether any high-value target was present in the area at the time of the attack, two security officials told AFP, confirming the death toll of four.
A local intelligence official had earlier said three people were killed.
The missile targeted a compound in a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud on the border between the semi-autonomous tribal regions of South and North Waziristan, the officials said.
Source: AFP
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Just to clarify, Miramshah is in North Waziristan, and Baitullah Mehsud is based in South Waziristan, so this was likely an attack on Gul Bahadur or AQ's camps, not BM.
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"Just to clarify, Miramshah is in North Waziristan, and Baitullah Mehsud is based in South Waziristan, so this was likely an attack on Gul Bahadur or AQ's camps, not BM."
True but the target was 30km south of Miramshah and very near the S.Waziri border. Things probably get a bit hazy along the edges and this may, indeed, have been an attack on Mehsud people.
True but the target was 30km south of Miramshah and very near the S.Waziri border. Things probably get a bit hazy along the edges and this may, indeed, have been an attack on Mehsud people.
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And, regardless about whether the attack site was specifically against Bahadur or against Baitullah Mehsud, because we have "heard" that Mehsud has chickened out to North Waziristan, to be protected by Bahadur, who cares which Waziristan it is? Waziristan, Schmiristan!! Irhabi nests, both.
US missile strike 'kills 10 Taliban' in Pakistan
11 AUGUST 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A US missile attack killed 10 militants in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, security officials said, less than a week after a similar drone strike reportedly killed a feared Taliban chief.
It was the first attack from a US spy plane since last Wednesday, when Pakistani and US officials believe Pakistan's militant warlord Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife at a family home in South Waziristan.
Both governments have stopped short of confirming the death of Mehsud, Pakistan's public enemy number one, and government officials have been drawn into an escalating war of words with Taliban commanders on his fate.
Tuesday's attack took place near the small mountain town of Kanniguram in South Waziristan, a stronghold of Mehsud, who is branded by Washington a key Al-Qaeda facilitator in Pakistan with a five-million-dollar bounty on his head.
"Two missiles were fired by a US drone. It was a militant compound," a Pakistani government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another Pakistani military official told AFP: "At least 10 Taliban militants were killed in the attack. It was a drone attack."
It was unclear whether any high-value target or Al-Qaeda linked militants were in the compound at the time of attack, an official said.
Kanniguram is seven kilometres (four miles) south of Laddah, the village where a suspected US drone fired two missiles into the house of Mehsud's father-in-law last Wednesday.
The United States military does not, as a rule, confirm drone attacks, but its armed forces and the CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy unmanned aircraft in the region.
Pakistan has in the past vociferously opposed drone attacks as a threat to its sovereignty, which risk whipping up an anti-American backlash that could destabilise the weak civilian government.
But many analysts and observers believe that the government gives tacit support to the punishing strikes, as it shares the US goal of eliminating Mehsud's network, blamed for scores of deadly attacks in Pakistan.
The government on Tuesday demanded that Taliban commanders release a video to substantiate their claim that Mehsud survived the US drone attack.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a top Taliban commander and deputy to Baitullah Mehsud, insisted that the warlord was alive and also denied reports of a deadly shooting between contenders for his succession.
"When Hakimullah can talk to Baitullah, he can also bring his video tape to contradict my claims that the Taliban chieftain is dead," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters outside parliament.
Hakimullah on Monday spoke to an AFP reporter by telephone, saying that Mehsud would appear before the media in three or four days to prove that he was alive through "an audio or video message," he said.
A senior US official told AFP there were "strong indications" that Mehsud was dead, while CNN television quoted an intelligence official as saying that the diabetic warlord was killed while getting a leg massage from his wife.
Many Taliban and Al-Qaeda rebels are believed to have fled Afghanistan after the 2001 US-led invasion, instead carving out boltholes and training camps in the remote mountains of Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border.
Source: AFP
11 AUGUST 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A US missile attack killed 10 militants in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, security officials said, less than a week after a similar drone strike reportedly killed a feared Taliban chief.
It was the first attack from a US spy plane since last Wednesday, when Pakistani and US officials believe Pakistan's militant warlord Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife at a family home in South Waziristan.
Both governments have stopped short of confirming the death of Mehsud, Pakistan's public enemy number one, and government officials have been drawn into an escalating war of words with Taliban commanders on his fate.
Tuesday's attack took place near the small mountain town of Kanniguram in South Waziristan, a stronghold of Mehsud, who is branded by Washington a key Al-Qaeda facilitator in Pakistan with a five-million-dollar bounty on his head.
"Two missiles were fired by a US drone. It was a militant compound," a Pakistani government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another Pakistani military official told AFP: "At least 10 Taliban militants were killed in the attack. It was a drone attack."
It was unclear whether any high-value target or Al-Qaeda linked militants were in the compound at the time of attack, an official said.
Kanniguram is seven kilometres (four miles) south of Laddah, the village where a suspected US drone fired two missiles into the house of Mehsud's father-in-law last Wednesday.
The United States military does not, as a rule, confirm drone attacks, but its armed forces and the CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy unmanned aircraft in the region.
Pakistan has in the past vociferously opposed drone attacks as a threat to its sovereignty, which risk whipping up an anti-American backlash that could destabilise the weak civilian government.
But many analysts and observers believe that the government gives tacit support to the punishing strikes, as it shares the US goal of eliminating Mehsud's network, blamed for scores of deadly attacks in Pakistan.
The government on Tuesday demanded that Taliban commanders release a video to substantiate their claim that Mehsud survived the US drone attack.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a top Taliban commander and deputy to Baitullah Mehsud, insisted that the warlord was alive and also denied reports of a deadly shooting between contenders for his succession.
"When Hakimullah can talk to Baitullah, he can also bring his video tape to contradict my claims that the Taliban chieftain is dead," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters outside parliament.
Hakimullah on Monday spoke to an AFP reporter by telephone, saying that Mehsud would appear before the media in three or four days to prove that he was alive through "an audio or video message," he said.
A senior US official told AFP there were "strong indications" that Mehsud was dead, while CNN television quoted an intelligence official as saying that the diabetic warlord was killed while getting a leg massage from his wife.
Many Taliban and Al-Qaeda rebels are believed to have fled Afghanistan after the 2001 US-led invasion, instead carving out boltholes and training camps in the remote mountains of Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border.
Source: AFP
Mehsud killed by CIA while getting ’leg massage’: report
11 AUGUST 2009
WASHINGTON – US officials stuck to their belief that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed last week, amid reports a CIA drone fired missiles at him as he was getting a leg massage on the roof of his father-in-law's house.
A US counterterrorism official told AFP on Monday "there are strong indications (Mehsud) is dead" following a missile attack launched from unmanned aircraft.
"No one is expecting him home for dinner tonight," the official said.
US President Barack Obama is being told Mehsud was killed after a "dramatic escalation" of aerial surveillance, with nine unmanned drones assigned to target the Taliban leader, a US official told CNN television.
On Wednesday night, US surveillance in Pakistan spied a man on the roof of Mehsud's father-in-law's home in South Waziristan.
The description was of a "short, stocky man who was following the physical description" of Mehsud, CNN said, citing the intelligence official.
A woman was massaging the man's leg and the Central Intelligence Agency knew Mehsud had diabetes, experienced pain in his legs, and often sought relief in that way, the report said.
Officials already had authorization from Obama to strike Mehsud if they thought they had a clear shot.
"That's when the CIA decided to move in," the network reported.
A top Taliban commander, Hakimullah Mehsud, earlier Monday challenged Pakistan to prove that Mehsud was dead, insisting in a telephone call to AFP that the warlord was still alive.
Although Pakistan said it believed Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone attack along with his wife on Wednesday, there has been confusion over his fate.
Both governments have stopped short of confirming his death.
White House national security advisor Jim Jones said on Sunday that the United States was "90 percent" sure Baitullah Mehsud had died after a US missile strike.
"The Pakistani government believes he is and all the evidence we have suggests that," Jones said in an interview with Fox News Sunday.
Jones and Pakistani officials also said dissension has emerged in the ranks of the Taliban over who should succeed Baitullah Mehsud.
Hakimullah Mehsud said the insurgent group would issue a message in the next three to four days proving Baitullah Mehsud was still alive.
Hakimullah said Baitullah was only "a bit sick."
He did confirm to AFP, however, that Baitullah's wife had been killed in an attack, adding that the Taliban would soon avenge her death.
Source: AFP
11 AUGUST 2009
WASHINGTON – US officials stuck to their belief that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed last week, amid reports a CIA drone fired missiles at him as he was getting a leg massage on the roof of his father-in-law's house.
A US counterterrorism official told AFP on Monday "there are strong indications (Mehsud) is dead" following a missile attack launched from unmanned aircraft.
"No one is expecting him home for dinner tonight," the official said.
US President Barack Obama is being told Mehsud was killed after a "dramatic escalation" of aerial surveillance, with nine unmanned drones assigned to target the Taliban leader, a US official told CNN television.
On Wednesday night, US surveillance in Pakistan spied a man on the roof of Mehsud's father-in-law's home in South Waziristan.
The description was of a "short, stocky man who was following the physical description" of Mehsud, CNN said, citing the intelligence official.
A woman was massaging the man's leg and the Central Intelligence Agency knew Mehsud had diabetes, experienced pain in his legs, and often sought relief in that way, the report said.
Officials already had authorization from Obama to strike Mehsud if they thought they had a clear shot.
"That's when the CIA decided to move in," the network reported.
A top Taliban commander, Hakimullah Mehsud, earlier Monday challenged Pakistan to prove that Mehsud was dead, insisting in a telephone call to AFP that the warlord was still alive.
Although Pakistan said it believed Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone attack along with his wife on Wednesday, there has been confusion over his fate.
Both governments have stopped short of confirming his death.
White House national security advisor Jim Jones said on Sunday that the United States was "90 percent" sure Baitullah Mehsud had died after a US missile strike.
"The Pakistani government believes he is and all the evidence we have suggests that," Jones said in an interview with Fox News Sunday.
Jones and Pakistani officials also said dissension has emerged in the ranks of the Taliban over who should succeed Baitullah Mehsud.
Hakimullah Mehsud said the insurgent group would issue a message in the next three to four days proving Baitullah Mehsud was still alive.
Hakimullah said Baitullah was only "a bit sick."
He did confirm to AFP, however, that Baitullah's wife had been killed in an attack, adding that the Taliban would soon avenge her death.
Source: AFP
US strike kills 13 in Pakistan
21 august 2009
A US drone missile strike has killed at least 13 people in a tribal area of north-west Pakistan known as a Taliban hide-out, officials said.
The pre-dawn strike damaged a house near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a Pakistani security official said.
"So far 13 bodies have been recovered," the official said, after earlier putting the death toll at nine.
"Those killed in the drone attack were all militants."
Residents say militants surrounded the compound after the attack and a tractor was used to remove the debris.
The compound targeted was a Taliban office, some residents said, adding Afghan militants also used to visit.
The strike is the third in the rugged tribal terrain since a US drone missile reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban chief and feared warlord Baitullah Mehsud in neighbouring South Waziristan on August 5.
Source: AFP
21 august 2009
A US drone missile strike has killed at least 13 people in a tribal area of north-west Pakistan known as a Taliban hide-out, officials said.
The pre-dawn strike damaged a house near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a Pakistani security official said.
"So far 13 bodies have been recovered," the official said, after earlier putting the death toll at nine.
"Those killed in the drone attack were all militants."
Residents say militants surrounded the compound after the attack and a tractor was used to remove the debris.
The compound targeted was a Taliban office, some residents said, adding Afghan militants also used to visit.
The strike is the third in the rugged tribal terrain since a US drone missile reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban chief and feared warlord Baitullah Mehsud in neighbouring South Waziristan on August 5.
Source: AFP
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..There should be a second strike when millitants go to get the bodies.[/QUOTE
non sense
Why dont you condem double standards of US , self claimed campian of soverenity and democracy.
These drone attacks will not be able to give any tengible sucess of ISAF forces but further increases their problems and increase insurgency inside Pakistan.
US should stop this stupidity now enough is enough.
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