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The Northerner

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Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:39 PM Feb 2012

Pakistani tribesmen protest US drone strikes



Hundreds of tribesmen have staged a rally in Pakistan to protest against the non-UN-sanctioned US assassination drone attacks in the country.

The protesters gathering in the northwestern city of Bannu on Monday chanted anti-American slogans.

They assembled in a large field to listen to local leaders denounce the US attacks.

In a similar protest on Sunday, thousands of people staged a demonstration in Karachi to condemn the US drone strikes in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt.

Over the last three years, the drone strikes have quietly become the US administration's weapon of choice against suspected militants.

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Pakistani tribesmen protest US drone strikes (Original Post) The Northerner Feb 2012 OP
Isn't that article from the Iranian government-owned news network? limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #1
Ingrates! Don't they understand we're killing them and their families for their own good? Bezukhov Feb 2012 #2
they might be next .... IamK Feb 2012 #3

limpyhobbler

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1. Isn't that article from the Iranian government-owned news network?
Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:44 PM
Feb 2012

Should we be posting stuff from them?

Is the Iranian government a good news source?


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