U.S. missile hits Pakistani house

[jazzjunkysue]

Source: Tehran Times

A missile from a suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft (drone) has killed at least six people in a Pakistani tribal area close to Afghanistan, reports say.


Unnamed Pakistani security sources say it hit a house in the village of Tappi, North Waziristan, and that the dead include a number of Arabs.

There was no immediate U.S. confirmation of the attack.



Read more: http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=179697

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Surprise! Actually, on google, there have been little reports on people killed in Pakistan all month.

There's nothing new about this, except that Faux news just reported it to the lemmings.

[earth mom]

1. A thread in GD is the first I've heard of this. What is really going on???!!! nt

[sarcasmo]

3. The Decider doesn't want to leave office. Can you say, Continuity of Government?

[earth mom]

7. I've long thought that * doesn't want to leave office and has no plans to go anywhere.

:yoiks:

[IndianaGreen]

2. Missile strike reported in Pakistan (Al-Jazeera)

Here's Al-Jazeera's version on this LBN story, looks like the US is trying to kill bin Laden before the elections to help McCain/Palin:

Missile strike reported in Pakistan

At least three people have been killed in a missile attack by suspected US drones in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani intelligence sources.

"Three people have been killed. We don't know whether they are militants or civilians," an intelligence official in the region told the Reuters news agency late on Saturday.

The AFP news agency quoted Pakistani security officials as saying that the missile strike hit a compound, killing four people.

The US is suspected in at least 11 missile strikes on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border since mid-August, killing more than 100 people, most of them alleged fighters, according to an Associated Press (AP) count based on figures provided by Pakistan intelligence officials.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/20081011184826882921.html

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. Fucking terrorists......

YES, the US is a terrorist organization. How else do you characterize what they are doing?

[ohio2007]

5. You must not be using Google properly if you can't find any stories about

the undecalred civil war in Pakistan.

stories just from today on a Pakistani news site;


Bomber mows down 50 in attack on jirga
http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top1.htm

Four pro-govt tribal elders beheaded
http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top16.htm

Opposition seeks govt policy on terror fight
http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top2.htm




Another polio case found in Peshawar
http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top13.htm


Pakistanis sign anti-terror petition
http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top17.htm




slow day

[ohio2007]

6. Pakistan Tribes Raze Taliban Houses After Bombing

Just after an attempt to disrupt a plan to build a little Anbar awakening project in the badlands

Bomber mows down 50 in attack on jirga

snip
More than 5,000 Taliban are reportedly taking shelter in the Orakzai Agency. To counter them, the tribes had formed a joint lashkar ( militia )of more than 60,000 tribesmen, the sources said.


http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top1.htm

Pakistan Tribes Raze Taliban Houses After Bombing

KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry Pakistani tribesmen traded fire with Taliban militants and demolished their houses in a northwestern tribal region after a car suicide attack killed at least 40 people, residents and officials said on Saturday.

Television channels put the death toll at as high as 70.

The bomber drove his explosive-laden car into the middle of a tribal council meeting in Orakzai tribal region on Friday where hundreds of tribesmen were discussing a government-backed plan to raise a lashkar or tribal militia to evict militants.


snip
"Everyone is angry and upset here. The tribesmen attacked houses of the Taliban in Khadizai after the bombing. Two houses have been demolished," Noorzad Orakzai, a resident of the Khadizai area where attack took place, told Reuters by telephone.



snip
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-us-pakistan-violence.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin