Drone strike kills four on 9/11 anniversary

[The Northerner]

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least four people were killed and two injured when a suspected drone strike targeted a vehicle in North Waziristan on Sunday evening.

According to Express 24/7 correspondent Umar Farooq reported that a US drone fired two rockets, targeting a vehicle believed to have been transporting militants in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.

According to Farooq, locals had reported two people to have been injured in the attack, though locals are trying to avoid the area where the vehicle was targeted.

The drone strike comes as Americans commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks when two passenger aircrafts crashed into the World Trade Centers in New York city. The attacks launched a US led global military campaign, including Afghanistan where they targeted Taliban and al Qaeda collaborating militant groups in the areas near Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The drone strikes are an extension of the US war on terror targeting al Qaeda, the organisation believed to have carried the 9/11 attacks.

Read more: http://tribune.com.pk/story/250178/drone-strike-kills-four-on-911-anniversary/

[tblue]

1. What gives us the right?

And can they ever forgive us?

[Cool Logic]

6. The right to life entails the right to self-defense...

[tblue]

9. Yes, we have the right to defend against these evildoers:

[Cool Logic]

10. Do you believe in the notion of "civilized" war...?

The pictures clearly demonstrates the horror that can occur when a decision to engage is made without properly identifying the targets; however, it is not possible to wage war and expect that there will be no civilian casualties.

Nevertheless, unlike others, the US does attempt to keep them to a minimum.

Gunmen have ambushed a school bus on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least five children, police say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14895769

[Angry Dragon]

2. Easy to call them terrorists when they are dead and blown up

Funny how many terrorists are killed in vehicles
and not in fire fights

[OKDem08]

3. YES WE CAN!!

[Bluebear]

8. Fired up!

[Fumesucker]

4. A circle has no beginning, no end.. It just goes on forever.. n/t

[LooseWilly]

5. I wonder if either of the injured "militants" was over 10 years old on 9/11 ...

How many kids in the US have grown up thinking things like taking your shoes off at the airport are how things have always been?

How many kids in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and throughout the region have grown up thinking bombs dropping on things like weddings are how things have always been?

At this point... what's the point? Who're "we" teaching a "lesson" to anymore?... aside from IED techs...

It's just a macabre joke at this point... profitable as hell for the war industries... whatever.

[Mimosa]

7. Look up Northrup Grunmann, for instance. And XE. n/t