From the Globe's website yesterday:
"Suspected US missile strike kills 3 in NW Pakistan" by Ishtiaq Mahsud, Associated Press Writer | July 10, 2009
Pakistani secuirty forces officers walk over debris of houses in Sultanwas, Buner, Pakistan on Thursday, July 9. 2009. Sultanwas, a stronghold of Taliban militants is destroyed during fierce fight between Pakistani security forces and Taliban militants. Pakistan will allow some 2 million people who fled an army offensive against the Taliban in Swat Valley to return home next week, the prime minister announced Thursday, saying the region was now secure and essential services restored. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
Excuse me? Those are HOUSES?
They LOOK LIKE GROUND ZERO, 9/11!!!!
And there are OVER 3 MILLION REFUGEES! Get it RIGHT for ONCE, will ya?
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan --A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a communication center of the Pakistani Taliban leader Friday, killing at least three people, intelligence officials said.
The attack was the latest in a string of similar strikes by suspected U.S. drone aircraft in recent weeks to target Baitullah Mehsud and his network of militants.
Missiles to kill a dead guy.
Why don't you BURY THEM in a MOUNTAINSIDE rather than a HOUSE, fuckers?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two missiles struck a communication center late Friday belonging to Mehsud's group in the Painda Khel region of South Waziristan, three intelligence officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The United States is believed to have launched more than 40 missile strikes against targets in the border area since last August, according to a count by The Associated Press. Washington does not directly acknowledge launching the missiles, which have killed civilians as well as militants and have contributed to anti-U.S. sentiment in Pakistan.
Well, YOU would HATE WHOEVER fired MISSILES into YOUR VILLAGE and KILLED YOUR FAMILY, 'murkn!
Or would you? Israel seems to lead your government around by the nose.
As for the VICTIMS, it is WAY MORE CIVILIANS -- on the order of 700 to 15 -- and those are probably low-ball numbers!!!!!
From the printed paper in front of me on my desk.
"At least 20 die in Pakistan clashes" by Associated Press | July 11, 2009
KHAR, Pakistan - Clashes between security forces and militants left at least 20 people dead in a region of northwest Pakistan that the army claimed to have cleared of insurgents earlier this year, government officials said yesterday.
The violence in the Bajur region underscores the difficulties Islamabad faces as it seeks to root out insurgents from the tribal belt along the Afghan border where Al Qaeda and Taliban militants have long enjoyed a safe haven.
I love it when they roll up "Al-CIA-Duh" and the "Taliban" into EVERY INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, don't you?
Well, I KNOW about BAJUR and that is a CIVIL WAR of the Pakistan governments SEIZURE of RESOURCES without recompense!
The deadliest fighting took place in the village of Chinnar in the Charmang Valley, where Taliban militants ambushed an army convoy yesterday afternoon, said Jamil Khan, a local government official. Four insurgents and two soldiers were killed in the attack.
Two hours later, the military pounded the area with helicopter gunships and artillery, killing 10 more militants, Khan said.
Access to the region is restricted and it was not possible to independently verify the account. The attack comes fewer than 24 hours after dozens of militants overran a police post and killed four officers in the city of Khar, said Adalat Khan, a government official.
Khar is the main town in Bajur and was heavily damaged in the army offensive to retake it.
The Pakistani army said in March a six-month offensive had defeated the militants in their Bajur stronghold, which lies just next door to the insurgency-ravaged Afghan region of Kunar.Interesting!
Read this: Pakistan's Northern Iraq
But there has been an uptick in small-scale assaults on government forces in the Bajur area.
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What, NO MISSILE STRIKES in my PRINTED PAPER?
Need I even say it, readers!
