Pakistan Drone Raids 'Claim Lives' (2nd Drone Strike Kills 5 Retrieving Bodies)

tekisui

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Pakistan Drone Raids 'Claim Lives' (2nd Drone Strike Kills 5 Retrieving Bodies)

Source: Al Jazeera

Pakistani intelligence officials say three US missile attacks spaced just hours apart have killed 18 people in the country's northwest Pakistan.

At least nine people were killed in the first attack, when missiles struck a moving vehicle in the North Waziristan tribal region, the officials told the Associated Press news agency.

Two hours later, drones struck the same site again, killing five people who had gathered to retrieve the bodies.

A third raid on Saturday targeted a moving vehicle, killing four people in the Mohammed Khel area of North Waziristan, the intelligence officials said.

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Up to 35 people were believed to have been killed in similar attacks on Monday and Tuesday.

New America Foundation, a Washington-based policy think-tank, estimates that 118 US drone attacks in 2010 killed approximately 2,100 people in Pakistan's tribal areas.

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2100 people killed in 2010 alone. Disgusting.
more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/01/20111113550790296.html

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Mark Maker

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Sat Jan-01-11 01:19 PM
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1. Right out of their own playbook

Initiate the 1st attack and delay the 2nd to take out the 1st responders.

That'll teach 'em to scrape up their fallen comrades.

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walldude

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Sat Jan-01-11 04:14 PM
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7. Yeah that'll teach those bastards to attack us...

Oh wait.....

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malaise

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Sat Jan-01-11 01:38 PM
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2. War crimes with no war declared

This is madness

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EFerrari

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Sat Jan-01-11 01:41 PM
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3. This country is completely out of control. n/t

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tekisui

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Sat Jan-01-11 02:33 PM
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4. It is revolting.

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whathehell

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Sat Jan-01-11 03:59 PM
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5. Agreed.

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walldude

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Sat Jan-01-11 04:10 PM
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6. I was told yesterday on this very site

that "it's better than a ground war".

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Cutatious

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Sat Jan-01-11 04:17 PM
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8. Is it worse than a ground war?

Or maybe == to a ground war? Or maybe it's just different?

Other than stating the obvious - killing people is not good, how should it be compared to a ground war?

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Sat Jan-01-11 05:38 PM
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Ghost Dog

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Sat Jan-01-11 05:45 PM
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10. That's why they're not war crimes.

Edited on Sat Jan-01-11 05:46 PM by Ghost Dog

Clever, huh?

Oh, wait. That's why they're, um, alledgedly, high crimes in the USA itself as well as against humanity.

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