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U.S. drones kill four women and two children in Pakistan
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| quote: | U.S. drones kill four women and two children in Pakistan
By Haji Mujtaba
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed 16 people, including Pakistani and Afghan Taliban fighters, on Monday in a strike targeting a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials and Pakistani villagers said.
"There were two drones and they fired three missiles," said a resident of Dandi Darpakheil, a village in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.
A military official said a house and madrasa founded by Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani were the targets.
Haqqani is a veteran commander of the U.S.-backed Afghan war against the Soviet invasion in the 1970s and 1980s, and his links with bin Laden go back to the late 1980s.
He is said to be in ill-health and his son, Sirajuddin, has been leading the Haqqani group.
The missile strike killed 16 people, most of them Pakistani and Afghan Taliban fighters, though four women and two children were also killed, according to a senior intelligence officer.
"They belonged to Sirajuddin Haqqani group," said the officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"No foreign militant was killed," he added, although a junior intelligence official had said earlier that Uzbek and Arab militants had been staying in the school complex.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/news...L24250220080908
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the is going on in this world? When the US kills people by dozens no one in the Western world have the balls to stand up and criticise them. No one draws ridiculous ceasefire agreements and cry like a baby about dependency on the country's economy (look on what's going on with a housing crisis).
But when Russia does a similiar thing in Georgia, all the Western world commend and whine about it. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| Nice find, keep up the good work. |
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| Zild |
| I've actually been thinking about becoming a drone pilot since they won't let me fly jets because of my eyesight. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| US is in with the wrong country this time.Last thing they need right now is for Pakistan to become their enemy.Not to mention that they do have nukes. |
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| jerZ07002 |
| what were 6 women and children doing with 10 taliban fighters? Perhaps they weren't as innocent as you people think. Women can be fighters as well, and not all children are infants. |
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| Kinezi |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
US is in with the wrong country this time.Last thing they need right now is for Pakistan to become their enemy.Not to mention that they do have nukes. |
Yups, Pakistan will US if they get angry, not to mention the large number of Pakis living in UK and US who have US/UK passport.. |
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| Krypton |
| Don't worry, they died for freedom. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
Don't worry, they died for freedom. |
What if they dont want to be "free"? :p |
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