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CIA takes revenge with missile strikes in Pakistan
"In an apparent campaign of revenge at least 20 people have died in drone missile attacks in Pakistan since the December 30 suicide bombing that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence agent.
The most deadly of the strikes by the CIA’s Predator drone aircraft took place Wednesday in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border.
Citing unnamed intelligence officials, the Associated Press reported that one of the pilotless drones fired two missiles into a house, killing seven people. This was followed more than an hour later by another missile, launched as local villagers struggled to rescue survivors and pull bodies from the rubble. This second strike killed at least another five people. Some Pakistani media put the total death toll from the two missile strikes at 15.
The Islamabad-based International News Network Web site reported that the missile strikes had sown widespread panic in the area. There are growing fears in Pakistan that the response to last week’s suicide bomb attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan’s Khost province, just across the border from North Waziristan, will be an intensified and sustained campaign of drone attacks that will claim many more lives.
The Predator strikes have provoked widespread anger in Pakistan, both because of the loss of life and the blatant trampling on the country’s sovereignty. Government officials have also routinely condemned the attacks, though it is evident that Islamabad has allowed the strikes, many of which are launched from a covert airfield in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
The CIA agents and private contractors killed at the base in Afghanistan were responsible for choosing targets for the drone attacks."
It could have been common before but the first time I heard of the lovely practice of waiting a few minutes and then firing more missiles into aid workers was during the NATO war on Serbia.
The original meaning of terror was state terror.
"In an apparent campaign of revenge at least 20 people have died in drone missile attacks in Pakistan since the December 30 suicide bombing that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence agent.
The most deadly of the strikes by the CIA’s Predator drone aircraft took place Wednesday in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border.
Citing unnamed intelligence officials, the Associated Press reported that one of the pilotless drones fired two missiles into a house, killing seven people. This was followed more than an hour later by another missile, launched as local villagers struggled to rescue survivors and pull bodies from the rubble. This second strike killed at least another five people. Some Pakistani media put the total death toll from the two missile strikes at 15.
The Islamabad-based International News Network Web site reported that the missile strikes had sown widespread panic in the area. There are growing fears in Pakistan that the response to last week’s suicide bomb attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan’s Khost province, just across the border from North Waziristan, will be an intensified and sustained campaign of drone attacks that will claim many more lives.
The Predator strikes have provoked widespread anger in Pakistan, both because of the loss of life and the blatant trampling on the country’s sovereignty. Government officials have also routinely condemned the attacks, though it is evident that Islamabad has allowed the strikes, many of which are launched from a covert airfield in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
The CIA agents and private contractors killed at the base in Afghanistan were responsible for choosing targets for the drone attacks."
It could have been common before but the first time I heard of the lovely practice of waiting a few minutes and then firing more missiles into aid workers was during the NATO war on Serbia.
The original meaning of terror was state terror.
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