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US Drone strikes in Pakistan are illegal under international law.

truthseeker where is the post of the drone strike after raymond davis release which killed 80 people, did u forget that???

chops3d, Sir!

I must have missed that one. Please add it to the list for me....

Regards,
TS

.........
According to the LWJ article below, there have been no other drone strikes after Davis release other than those I listed above.
 
US Predator strike kills 6 Haqqani Network fighters in South Waziristan

By Bill Roggio, April 13, 2011

The CIA has carried out its first airstrike in Pakistan's tribal areas against the Taliban and al Qaeda since the March 17 attack that sparked protests from top Pakistani government and military officials.

Today's strike took place in the town of Angoor Adda in South Waziristan, an area under the influence of South Waziristan Taliban warlord Mullah Nazir. Unmanned Predators or Reapers fired four missiles at a pickup truck transporting fighters from the Haqqani Network, the al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup, Pakistani intelligence officials told AFP.

Six Haqqani Network fighters were reported to have been killed. A local official claimed that all of those killed were from Afghanistan. No senior al Qaeda, Taliban, or Haqqani Network leaders were reported to have been killed.

Today's strike is the first in Pakistan's tribal areas since the deadly March 17 strike in Datta Khel that killed more than 30 people, including 10 Taliban fighters and a senior lieutenant loyal to North Waziristan Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar. Pakistani officials, including General Pervaz Kayani, the top military commander, denounced the strike and claimed that everyone killed was a civilian attending a jirga, or council, to resolve a local mining dispute. But the Taliban were reported to have mediated the jirga.

After the March 17 strike, the Predator program was placed on hold, and reports indicated that Pakistan was to officially request that the the US curtail or even end the operation. But a US official told ABC News yesterday that the CIA had no intention of ending the program, as top al Qaeda leaders continue to shelter in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Today's strike also took place one day after a meeting between the top intelligence chiefs of the US and Pakistan. Yesterday, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate chief Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and CIA Director Leon Panetta met in Washington to discuss the deteriorating relationship between the two agencies after a series of disagreements, most recently over CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who was detained by Pakistani police after killing two men in Lahore.

"Good Taliban" leader Mullah Nazir supports al Qaeda

The territory where today's strike occurred is controlled by Mullah Nazir, the leader of the Taliban in the Waziri tribal areas in South Waziristan. Pakistan's military and intelligence services consider Nazir and his followers "good Taliban" as they do not openly seek the overthrow of the Pakistani state.

In the summer of 2009, the military signed a peace agreement with Nazir stipulating that he would not shelter al Qaeda or members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which were based in the Mehsud tribal areas of South Waziristan. The Pakistani government launched a military operation against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in October 2009, but left Nazir's areas untouched. Nazir has continued to allow the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, al Qaeda, and other terror groups safe haven in his tribal areas.

Nazir openly supports Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, and wages jihad in Afghanistan. Significantly, more senior al Qaeda leaders have been killed in Nazir's tribal areas during the US air campaign than in those of any other Taliban leader in Pakistan. Nazir also shelters the Mehsuds from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, in violation of the peace agreement with the Pakistani government.

In the past, the US has killed several senior al Qaeda leaders in Nazir's territories. One of the most senior al Qaeda leaders killed was Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar, who is better known as Abu Khabab al Masri. Abu Khabab was killed along with four members of his staff in a Predator strike on July 28, 2008.

Two other top al Qaeda leaders killed while in Nazir's care were Osama al Kini (Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam), al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan; and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, one of al Kini's senior aides. Both men were wanted by the US for their involvement in the 1998 suicide attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

In another strike in Nazir's territory, US Predators also killed Abu Hazwa Jawfi, who is said to have led Jundallah, a Pakistani terror group that is based in Karachi and maintains with close ties with al Qaeda.

The Predator strikes, by the numbers

During the month of March, the US carried out seven Predator strikes inside Pakistan's tribal areas. Five of the seven strikes in March hit targets in North Waziristan, and the other two took place in South Waziristan. Today's strike is the first in April in Pakistan.

Four of the last 11 strikes in Pakistan have taken place in Mullah Nazir's territory in South Waziristan, indicating a possible shift in focus from the tribal agency of North Waziristan, where the overwhelming majority of the strikes have occurred since January 2010.

Many analysts speculated that the long pause in strikes from Jan. 23 to Feb. 20 was related to the shooting deaths in Lahore on Jan. 27 of two Pakistanis by a US consular official, Raymond Davis, who works for the CIA. Pakistan released Davis on March 16 after the US agreed to pay "blood money" to the families of the two Pakistanis killed.

But a look at the Predator strike history shows that there have been several long pauses in time between the strikes. The 28-day gap from late January to mid February was not the longest since the US ramped up the program in August 2008. [See LWJ report, Analysis: Gap in Pakistan Predator strikes not unusual.]

February 2011 proved to be the slowest month for Predator strikes in a year, with three, since November 2009. The recent slowdown in attacks has occurred after the pace of the strikes picked up from the beginning of September 2010 until the third week in January 2011. September's record number of 21 strikes was followed by 16 strikes in October, 14 in November, 12 in December, and 9 in January. The previous monthly high was 11 strikes in January 2010, after the Taliban and al Qaeda executed a successful suicide attack at Combat Outpost Chapman that targeted CIA personnel who were active in gathering intelligence for the Predator campaign in Pakistan. The suicide bombing at COP Chapman killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence officer.

The US carried out 117 attacks inside Pakistan in 2010, more than double the number of strikes that occurred in 2009. By late August 2010, the US had exceeded 2009's strike total of 53 with a strike in Kurram. In 2008, the US carried out a total of 36 strikes inside Pakistan. [For up-to-date charts on the US air campaign in Pakistan, see LWJ Special Report, Charting the data for US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2011.]

In 2010 the strikes were concentrated almost exclusively in North Waziristan, where the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, the Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, and a host of Pakistani and Central and South Asian terror groups are based. All but 13 of the 117 strikes took place North Waziristan. Of the 13 strikes occurring outside of North Waziristan in 2010, seven were executed in South Waziristan, five were in Khyber, and one was in Kurram. That trend is holding true this year, with 16 of 19 strikes in 2011 taking place in North Waziristan.

Since Sept. 1, 2010, the US has conducted 81 strikes in Pakistan's tribal agencies. The bulk of those attacks have aimed at the terror groups in North Waziristan, with 69 strikes in the tribal agency. Many of the strikes have targeted cells run by the Islamic Jihad Group, which have been plotting to conduct Mumbai-styled terror assaults in Europe. A Sept. 8 strike killed an IJG commander known as Qureshi, who specialized in training Germans to conduct attacks in their home country.

The US campaign in northwestern Pakistan has targeted top al Qaeda leaders, al Qaeda's external operations network, and Taliban leaders and fighters who threaten both the Afghan and Pakistani states as well as support al Qaeda's external operations. The campaign has been largely successful in focusing on terrorist targets and avoiding civilian casualties, as recently affirmed by the Pakistani military. [For a list of al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in the US air campaign in Pakistan, see LWJ Special Report, Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2011.]

Read more: US Predator strike kills 6 Haqqani Network fighters in South Waziristan - The Long War Journal
 
kind sir, i expected you to be a gentlemen and not someone name calling

chops3d, Sir! I don't understand your complaint. Was it the "d" that I miss-typed rendering your name as: dhops3d? I have corrected that in my post. Sorry.
 
U.S. drone strike kills five in Pakistan N.Waziristan

ISLAMABAD | Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:11pm EDT

(Reuters) - Four missiles fired by two suspected U.S. pilotless aircraft hit a house in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Friday, killing five militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The drone strike happened in Mir Ali, a town about 35 kilometers (20 miles) east of the region's main town of Miranshah.

"We are trying to gather information but according to initial reports, five militants were killed," an intelligence official in the region, who requested not to be identified, told Reuters.

Another official also confirmed the attack and said the toll could be higher.

The strike came two days after a visit by Admiral Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military official, to Islamabad in which he expressed concern over continuing links between Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI, and militants attacking U.S.-led forces across the border in Afghanistan.

U.S. drone strike kills five in Pakistan N.Waziristan | Reuters
 
Over 20 people killed in U.S. drone attack in NW Pakistan

10:28, April 22, 2011

At least 20 people were killed and several others seriously injured in a U.S. drone attack launched early Friday morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local English TV channel Express.

According to the report, four missiles were fired at a suspected militant compound near the Miransha area of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan. Identities of the people killed in the strike are not known at the moment of this stage.

Friday morning's strike is the 25th of its kind since 2011. To date, at least 174 people have reported killed in the 25 strikes launched by the U.S. drones since the beginning of this year.

Out of the 25 strikes, 21 were conducted in North Waziristan while the remaining four were carried out in the neighboring tribal area of South Waziristan.

Over 20 people killed in U.S. drone attack in NW Pakistan - People's Daily Online
 
Over 20 people killed in U.S. drone attack in NW Pakistan

10:28, April 22, 2011

At least 20 people were killed and several others seriously injured in a U.S. drone attack launched early Friday morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local English TV channel Express.

According to the report, four missiles were fired at a suspected militant compound near the Miransha area of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan. Identities of the people killed in the strike are not known at the moment of this stage.

Friday morning's strike is the 25th of its kind since 2011. To date, at least 174 people have reported killed in the 25 strikes launched by the U.S. drones since the beginning of this year.

Out of the 25 strikes, 21 were conducted in North Waziristan while the remaining four were carried out in the neighboring tribal area of South Waziristan.

Over 20 people killed in U.S. drone attack in NW Pakistan - People's Daily Online


Haha. Unbelievable. Oh well.
 
At least 12 people have
died in a drone strike in
the troubled Pakistani
tribal region of North
Waziristan, officials have
told the BBC. Four missiles were fired on a
house in Spinwam, 40km (25
miles) northeast of the tribal
region's main town of
Miranshah, officials said. The identities of the dead
were not immediately clear. The area is a haven for al-
Qaeda and the Taliban. More
than 100 raids were reported
in the area last year. Friday's strike comes a day
after Pakistani army chief Gen
Ashfaq Pervez Kayani told the
US military's top officer, Adm
Mike Mullen, that drone
strikes complicated Pakistan's "national" war against the
militants. A local official said the missiles
were fired at a large
compound occupied by
militants loyal to a local top
commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur. Several people were wounded
in Friday's attack, a local
intelligence official was
quoted as telling the AFP
news agency. The BBC's Ilyas Khan in
Islamabad says there have
been few drone attacks in
Spinwam, making it a
comparatively safe place for
militants who have been chased out of other militant
strongholds in North
Waziristan. A drone strike in North
Waziristan on 17 March killed
some 40 people, most of them
believed to be civilians
attending a tribal meeting. In rare public condemnation,
Gen Kayani called that raid
"intolerable and unjustified". US drone attacks have
escalated in north-west
Pakistan since President
Barack Obama took office. They are hugely unpopular
with the Pakistani public,
correspondents say. Many
militants, some of them
senior, have been killed in the
raids, but hundreds of civilians have also died. The US does not routinely
confirm it is conducting drone
operations in Pakistan, but
analysts say only American
forces have the capacity to
deploy such aircraft in the region. Pakistan: US drone
BBC News - Pakistan: US drone raid 'kills 12' in N Waziristan
 
If its terrorists then R.I.P [Rest in pieces] If its the innocent then R.I.P [Rest in peace]
 
Drone attacks will continue.

Many will die.

No one is interested in solving the issue.
 
One wonders for how long they are going to continue with this strategy. You cannot possibly wipe them out.
 
Drone attacks will continue.

Many will die.

No one is interested in solving the issue.

My small advice, DON'T POKE YOUR NOSE IN OTHERS PROBLEM OR THEIR PERSONAL... IF FRIEND HELP, ELSE ENJOY...
 
My small advice, DON'T POKE YOUR NOSE IN OTHERS PROBLEM OR THEIR PERSONAL... IF FRIEND HELP, ELSE ENJOY...

How droll!

I see that you claim to be an Indian.

Good for you.

If one's home is being bombarded day in day out, what will emerge? Happy, calm and peaceful law abiding citizens?

My experience in this mug's game is that more terrorists will spawn.

Pakistan is too small a place to accommodate them.

So, they will spread and spill all over.

Heard of Mumbai?

Have you faced terrorists?

I have, when you were sleeping under the very blanket of security that I was providing when standing post on the frontier.

I am not really poking my nose, as you quaintly states. I was only perceiving the reality without the blinkers that you seem to adorn!

Trichy is too far from the where I stood post so many times in my life and so you will not understand.
 
25 Killed in US Drone Attacks in Pak's Tribal Belt

Days after Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani called for an end to drone attacks in his country, unmanned American spy planes today unleashed 10 missiles at a compound in the volatile North Waziristan, killing at least 25 people, including civilians.

The CIA operated drones targetted Spin Wam village near Mir Ali, which is home to Haqqani network, hitting a compound where militants were said to have gathered, officials in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, said.

Reports said that members of a Taliban faction led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who has a peace deal with the Pakistan government, were among the dead.

CNN quoted its sources as saying that the strike targeted Taliban members from Orakzai tribal region who were planning to sneak into Afghanistan.

Three women and five children were also among the dead, Geo News channel quoted its sources as saying.

This was the 20th drone strike in North Waziristan agency this year.

Reports said militants had taken shelter in Spin Wam area due to US drone strikes in other parts of North Waziristan.

Local residents said they had seen several drones hovering over the area after the attack.

The strike came two days after US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen had identified the entire North Waziristhan as a hotbed of Haqqani, Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists planning strikes in neighbouring Afghanistan.

During his talks with with Pakistan's military leadership, Kayani demanded a halt to drone strikes in the tribal belt.

The Pakistani army chief said the attacks harmed Pakistan's anti-terror efforts and sparked public anger.

In his interactions with the media in Islamabad, Mullen indicated that the US had no plans to roll back the drone campaign as demanded by Pakistan's political and military leadership.

Today's attack by the CIA-operated spy planes was the first missile strike to hit North Waziristan since March 17, when drones targeted what Pakistani officials said was a tribal jirga or council and killed 44 people, including many civilians.

That attack sparked a diplomatic row between Islamabad and Washington. Pakistan has said that civilian casualties in the drone strikes have fuelled anti-American feelings in the country.

There were more than 110 missile strikes in the tribal belt last year.
FILED ON: APR 22,

news.outlookindia.com | 25 Killed in US Drone Attacks in Pak's Tribal Belt
 

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