US drone strike kills six in Pakistan: Security officials Read more: US drone strike kills six in P

[Lars77]

Source: Times of India

MIRANSHAH: A US drone attack killed six suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on Sunday, security officials said, a day after Islamabad rejected reports the covert missile campaign could expand.

The officials said two missiles slammed into a compound in Khaddi village, 15 kilometres (10 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan and considered a hub for Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militants.

"The compound and vehicle parked nearby were destroyed in the attack and at least six militants are dead," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.


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[timo]

1. "suspected"

hellz yeah, lets get our drone strike on!!!!! chalk another six notches on obama's pistola!!


Washington has massively ramped up its drone campaign against militants in areas near the Afghan border over the past two months, and argues they are highly effective in the war against al-Qaeda and its Islamist allies.

Bad when Bush did it, but no one really seems to mind when Obama does it, cept maybe the pooor dead folks!!

[Ticonderoga]

2. Oh yeah,

That Mother and her five daughters were high on the list. Obama is just another War Criminal in my book.

[sarcasmo]

3. Pushing the same agenda as the previous 8 years. Sick to my stomach that I voted for this nonsense.

[Mhak]

4. Guys...

In an insurgent-situation, the situation almost always turns into "Kill the enemy along with the civilians they deliberately shield themselves with (not always unwillingly, sadly), or let them kill our own soldiers?" That is the exact, terrible calculation we are faced with in Afghanistan. How many people here remember Vietnam, when our troops were killed day after day by VC who then fled across the border, unable to be pursued by US troops? Those VC then came back and did the same thing again, and again, and again. American kids who didn't want to be there were getting killed because of it. We are using the lessons learned from Vietnam in the Afghanistan-Pakistan situation to prevent that same strategy, which the insurgents are trying to use daily, from killing US soldiers.

No, I'm not arguing for these drone attacks, or for the war. I was there, in Afghanistan near Khowst working on the border nearby. I guarantee I hate the war and the death more than any of you here. I wish I had solutions for what's going on, I don't. But when leaders are faced with "Kill insurgents and civilians, or indirectly kill American soldiers," you can hardly expect those leaders to let American soldiers die. Obama is not a war criminal, he's not on the ground making these horrible decisions. And as to the people who are - I can promise you, it's something they live with for the rest of their lives. If you've never made a decision which you regret every night but to which there was no viable alternative, then you aren't in any place to put yourself above the men who are.

The soldiers over there wish for peace more than you do. They are in a terrible spot being forced to make terrible decisions because their enemy wants it that way. Their enemy wants them to be forced to live with a wrecked conscious after killing civilians - because they know it bothers us, and it doesn't bother them. That's the enemy we're facing, one that is willing to kill their own people just to get a dig at us. Make of that what you will, but just remember that none of us want this any more than do the people who are dead. Some people argue we should all come home. I wish it were that easy. It's not, but I honest to god wish it were.

[saigon68]

5. They don't need to be there---Period

[soryang]

7. The calculation really is did the contractor make a profit

Enough of this we're doing it for your own good.

[coalition_unwilling]

10. Tell me again exactly why we were in Vietnam. And, while you're at it,

tell me again exactly why we are in Afghanistan.

The drone attacks are just a technological gloss on 'extra-judicial assassination.' Of course, "assassination" (think "Phoenix program") is not as sexy as 'drones' and what-not.

Obama and Bush are not war criminals until there's a war crimes tribunal that accords each a fair trial. Until then, they are simply "alleged war criminals."

But Obama has already said that he and he alone will decide when a US citizen can be assassinated extra-judicially abroad. I've started to lose sight of exactly why he's any better than Bush. And to think I campaigned for Obama in 2008. I'm such a chump.

Edited for punctuation.

[lib2DaBone]

6. "Suspected Militants"? They hate us for our freedom.

More soldiers in Afghanistan now than under Bush.. plus troops are fighting in Yemen and all countries surrounding Iraq.

War.. it's what America does best.

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. Well its all good then

as long as an anonymous senior Pakistan official confirmed they were militants.:eyes:

I'd hate to have been born in that part of the world. You are stamped a "suspected militant" and cannon fodder as long as you live there.

[felix_numinous]

9. Bombs are

judge, jury and executioner all in one. War wastes no time on discrimination.

It is so sickening we cannot stop the war business.