Monday, January 25, 2010

Taliban Down Drone in Pakistan

I'm just going to put it up; make of it what you will.

"Suspected US drone crashes in Pakistan, officials, locals say" by Rasool Dawar, Associated Press | January 25, 2010

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suspected US drone crashed in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area near the Afghan border yesterday, a rare mishap for a program Washington has increasingly relied on to kill....

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The militants have responded with a wave of killings targeting people they suspect of helping facilitate the drone strikes, including six Pakistani men whose bodies were found in two different areas of North Waziristan on Monday. Pakistani intelligence officials have said at least 30 of their operatives were killed in North Waziristan in 2009, many with notes attached to the bodies alleging they were US spies.

I do NOT DOUBT IT for on second!

The six bodies found yesterday had similar notes, said intelligence officials and residents. The bodies of five men who had been fatally shot were found on the outskirts of Miran Shah, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. “This is the fate of American spies,’’ said a note attached to the body written in the local Pashtu language, according to resident Razaullah Wazir....

Local tribesman in North Waziristan were congratulating each other for shooting down the drone, said resident Saudur Rehman, who indicated he heard gunfire just before the crash....

Belive whichever accounting you want, readers.

I know what I believe, and it's not my newspapers anymore.


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