US Drone strikes in Pakistan are illegal under international law.

[Spring Onion]

"One of the oldest American think tanks, the vastly more respectable, Brookings Institution finds that:

“more than 600 civilians are likely to have died from the attacks. That number suggests that for every militant killed, 10 or so civilians also died.” (Emphasis added; as quoted in Dawn, 21 July 2009.)


As a result there are grave misgivings in America about these attacks, not only among civilian critics of the war but also among the military. Counter-terrorism expert, David Kilcullen, has been quoted famously as saying that: “When we intervene in people’s countries to chase small cells of bad guys, we end up alienating the whole country and turning them against us.”

The U.S. Army is conducting a wide-ranging propaganda campaign in America — what Pakistanis think is only marginally important — to deflect this kind of criticism, to minimise collateral damage, and to hype up the precision of their deadly toys."

 

[arya-is-here]

"One of the oldest American think tanks, the vastly more respectable, Brookings Institution finds that:

“more than 600 civilians are likely to have died from the attacks. That number suggests that for every militant killed, 10 or so civilians also died.” (Emphasis added; as quoted in Dawn, 21 July 2009.)


As a result there are grave misgivings in America about these attacks, not only among civilian critics of the war but also among the military. Counter-terrorism expert, David Kilcullen, has been quoted famously as saying that: “When we intervene in people’s countries to chase small cells of bad guys, we end up alienating the whole country and turning them against us.”

The U.S. Army is conducting a wide-ranging propaganda campaign in America — what Pakistanis think is only marginally important — to deflect this kind of criticism, to minimise collateral damage, and to hype up the precision of their deadly toys."

jana but who allow them to kill civilians why not Pakistan govt kill terrorist and save civilians

why Pakistan govt is so weak against USA

 

[Spring Onion]

jana but who allow them to kill civilians why not Pakistan govt kill terrorist and save civilians

And what do you think why Pakistan army is sacrificing its best trained officers and jawan by conducting operations against terrorists for the last 9 years ?????

why Pakistan govt is so weak against USA

Not just Pakistani govt but if any country in this region faces such like situation then that country will also be unable to do anything if US decides to attack or drone aggression for the reason is that you can give emotional statements but you can not sustain the war with the biggest powerful country.

 

[arya-is-here]

And what do you think why Pakistan army is sacrificing its best trained officers and jawan by conducting operations against terrorists for the last 9 years ?????

strange ISI produce terrorist and army fight with them

Not just Pakistani govt but if any country in this region faces such like situation then that country will also be unable to do anything if US decides to attack or drone aggression for the reason is that you can give emotional statements but you can not sustain the war with the biggest powerful country.

well why are you weak have you ever think about it because Pakistan never think about economic developments they just think about weapons your leaders make your peoples foll they shout against India and gains money name power

 

[TruthSeeker]

US kills 11 in Predator strike in South Waziristan

By Bill Roggio May 28, 2010

The US killed 11 terrorists in airstrikes in Pakistan's tribal agency of South Waziristan. The strike is the first in the tribal agency this year.

The strike, which was carried out by unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers, targeted "militant hideouts" in the Nezai Narai area in South Waziristan, according to Geo News. It is unclear if the strike targeted al Qaeda, the Taliban, or allied Central Asian terror groups known to operate in the tribal agency.

No senior al Qaeda or Taliban leaders have been reported killed at this time.


Read more: US kills 11 in Predator strike in South Waziristan - The Long War Journal

 

[TruthSeeker]

Plotter of Benazir’s death dead, amid growing mystery


By Umar Cheema, Saturday, May 29, 2010

ISLAMABAD: An important commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Ebad-ul-Rehman alias Farooq Chatan, wanted for allegedly coordinating assassination of Benazir Bhutto, is said to have been killed along with his brother Yousaf, in the first-ever drone strike in Khyber Agency two weeks ago.

There is no official word available but intelligence sources involved in tracking his movement said they are 95 per cent sure that he had been killed. “The rest 5 per cent confirmation can only be obtained through DNA testing and we do not have access to the body,” said an intelligence source. An official of the ISPR said they generally don’t confirm or deny killings of particular militant leaders.

A drone strike on May 15 had reportedly left around 15 people dead, including 13 militants. The local administration denying that it was a drone strike, had said the attack was carried out by a Pakistani fighter plane. According to sources, those killed other than Ebad-ul-Rehman and his brother Yousaf included eight Uzbek militants.

Ebad-ul-Rehman is believed to have coordinated between the TTP and the al-Qaeda the assassination plan of Benazir Bhutto as multiple teams were deputed to places where Benazir Bhutto was addressing the election rallies. It transpired during the investigation with those arrested in connection of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination that the plan was first approved by Abu Abaida al-Misri, the head of al-Qaeda’s Shura, and allegedly executed by Baitullah Mehsud-led TTP.

Abu Abaida died in January 2008, due to illness. Another TTP leader, Nadir alias Ismail, from district Swabi, who was allegedly in-charge of this assassination squad and reportedly presided over the meeting in Akora Khattak of the bombers sent on the mission, was intriguingly also killed, again in January 2008, during in an encounter with the Frontier Corps.

As far as Ebad-ul-Rehman is concerned, he belonged to Malakand Agency, and was a Hafiz-e-Quran and a frequent user of satellite phone. He was carrying the head money in millions of rupees. Killed in drone strikes near the Jabrol Camp located in Ragha area in Tirah Valley in Landikotal Tehsil of Khyber Agency, Ebad is said to have been buried in Tirah.

As the investigators were looking into the family tree obtained from the Nadra record, they found his eight relatives working in lower positions in a security institution, four of them were declared deserters as they had quit their jobs never to return. The rest of the four, who were still in service, were investigated for their possible links with Ebad but found to be innocent.

Plotter of Benazir’s death dead, amid growing mystery

 

[TruthSeeker]

Top al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu Yazid confirmed killed in airstrike in North Waziristan

By Bill Roggio May 31, 2010

Al Qaeda has announced that its top leader in Afghanistan and chief financial official was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan 10 days ago.

Mustafa Abu Yazid, who is also known as Sheikh Saeed al Masri, was killed in the May 21 Predator strike in the village of Mohammed Khel in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan. Datta Khel is a known al Qaeda hub in North Waziristan.

As Sahab, al Qaeda's propaganda arm, released a statement tonight announcing Yazid's death on Al Ansar, a jihadist forum.

Rumors of Yazid's death were first reported by ABC News, which quoted US officials who said a eulogy for Yazid was to be released by As Sahab.

The statement, released on the Al Ansar forum, described Yazid as a "martyr" and claimed he was killed in a "convoy of martyrs on the road with his wife and three daughters and his granddaughter, men, women and children, neighbors and loved ones."

Al Qaeda described Yazid as the "commander of its experienced leaders, master of masters, prince of financial princes, distinguished sheikh, and triumphant hero Mustafa Abu Yazid, the commander in chief of al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

Read more: Top al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu Yazid confirmed killed in airstrike in North Waziristan - The Long War Journal

 

[was]

how can these cia d...heads live with their selves after killing so many innocent women and children.
and what are our intelligence is doing.kick out all these CIA killers out of pakistan.
i am sure some of the bombings here where done by these d...heads to push us for more military operations.

 

[TruthSeeker]

i am sure some of the bombings here where done by these d...heads to push us for more military operations.

Right. If YOU are so sure, why don't you give your proof to GEO TV?
You are just blowing xenophobic steam. The bombings are homegrown, orchestrated by "friends" from the Arab world. Trouble is, you don't actually know who is your real enemy. (PS. It's not the CIA or the USA.)

 

[was]

Right. If YOU are so sure, why don't you give your proof to GEO TV?
You are just blowing xenophobic steam. The bombings are homegrown, orchestrated by "friends" from the Arab world. Trouble is, you don't actually know who is your real enemy. (PS. It's not the CIA or the USA.)

look hwo is talking of proof. you invaded an entire country(iraq) without any evidence.pathetic

have a look

Order Out of Chaos: CIA, Blackwater Responsible for Bombings, Assassinations in Pakistan

 

[TruthSeeker]

Al Qaeda operative killed in South Waziristan strike

By Bill Roggio, Jun 3, 2010

A senior al Qaeda operative was killed along with a Taliban commander in last week's airstrike in Pakistan's tribal agency of South Waziristan.

The Al Fajr Media Center, a jihadist propaganda outlet, announced the death of Osama bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Damjan al Dawsari in a statement released today on jihadist forums. The Al Fajr Media Center "is the official online logistical network responsible for disseminating messages from various al Qaeda military factions, including the 'Islamic State of Iraq' and Osama bin Laden himself," according to the NEFA Foundation.

Daswari was killed in the May 28 airstrike in the Nezai Narai area in South Waziristan, the first in the tribal agency this year. Ten other people were reported killed in the strike, which took place in a region run by 'good Taliban' leader Mullah Nazir. Nazir is the leader of the Taliban forces in the western Waziri tribal areas of the agency.

At the time of the strike, Daswari was conducting a meeting with a local Taliban leader known as Omar Khaitab, Dawn reported. Khaitab, who is "a close associate of militant commander Maulvi Nazir," was also killed in the strike.

Daswari also coordinated al Qaeda operations across the border in Afghanistan. He may have played a role in the Dec. 30, 2009, suicide attack inside Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, that killed seven CIA officers and guards, and a Jordanian intelligence officer. The slain intelligence operatives had been involved in gathering intelligence for the hunt for al Qaeda and Taliban leaders along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Daswari is the second senior al Qaeda leader reported killed in the past week. Al Qaeda announced the death of top leader Mustafa Abu Yazid on May 31. Yazid, who served as al Qaeda's finance chief and the leader of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the wider Khorasan, a region that included parts of western Pakistan, eastern Iran, and several Central Asian countries, was killed in the May 21 airstrike in the Datta Khel region in North Waziristan.

Read more: Al Qaeda operative killed in South Waziristan strike - The Long War Journal

 

[TruthSeeker]

look hwo is talking of proof. you invaded an entire country(iraq) without any evidence.pathetic.

There was proof about Iraq. Trouble was, Saddam wanted the world to believe he had WMD. He succeeded! Where is YOUR proof for your incendiary statement??????? Thought so, just xenophobia, pure and simple......

 

[Luftwaffe]

Saddam wanted the world to believe he had WMD

Speaking Saddam's words out of you mouth? or making it up again like WMD blah blah?
Where and when did Saddam say and insisted upon the world to believe in him what he says and what he got before the war hysteria and at the approach of us forces towards iraq never did Saddam say we have WMDs and we will use it. Plain stupid come up with something better.

So where are WMDs? proof!?

 

[TruthSeeker]

Plain stupid come up with something better.

Plain and stupid are you. You deny the plain truth . "Luftwaffe", your name says it all ..... prejudice.

 

[GUNNER]

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, June 10, 2010 (AFP) - A US drone Thursday fired two missiles on a suspected militant compound, killing three people in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal belt, security officials said.

The target of the attack was a house used by militants in Khaddi village, some 15 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, officials said.
"One US drone fired two missiles on a house, three militants have been killed," a senior security official in Peshawar told AFP.
An intelligence official in Miranshah also confirmed the attack, saying that militants were using the house as a compound.