Related: Boston Globe Performs Magic Act on Pakistan
Are thy trying to say that NOTHING has been going on there since to us rubes out here?
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"Missiles kill 10 alleged militants" by Munir Ahmad, Associated Press | January 14, 2010
ISLAMABAD - Suspected US missiles have killed at least 10 alleged militants today in the country’s North Waziristan tribal region, Pakistan officials said.
The attack is the eighth such missile strike in the region bordering Afghanistan in two weeks. That we have been told.
Sure CLAMMED UP in a hurry after that CIA base bombing, huh?
An army official and an intelligence official said the missiles struck the Pasalkot area of the tribal region at about 7 a.m. today. They said the target was a sprawling compound that has been used as a religious school in the past.
They BOMBED a frikkin' SCOOL?!!!!
The identities of the dead were not immediately known.
So they could be -- in fact, are -- all innocents, HUH?
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media on the record. The United States has dramatically escalated its use of missile strikes in Pakistan since the start of the year.
Related: US drone missiles slaughtered 700 Pakistani civilians in 2009
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I don't know, readers, that BG report left me unsatisfied!
"Officials: Alleged US missiles kill 10 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least 10 alleged militants Thursday at a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, the eighth such attack in two weeks.
The strike illustrated the Obama administration's unwillingness to abandon its missile campaign against insurgent targets along Pakistan's northwest border with Afghanistan. Despite Pakistani protest, the missile attacks have surged in number in recent days.
Nearly all the attacks in recent months have focused on North Waziristan, a segment of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt where some militant networks focused on battling the U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan are based. Some of those militants are believed to have been involved in a late December attack that killed seven CIA employees in eastern Afghanistan.
It's a region that the Pakistani military has been wary of treading, partly because the groups have not directly threatened the Pakistani state. The army has struck truces with some of the groups to keep them out of its battle against the Pakistani Taliban - who have attacked Pakistan in numerous ways - in nearby South Waziristan.
--more--"Does the Globe have a COMPETITOR, readers?
