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US drone strikes in Pakistan tribal areas boost support for Taleban

Niluccio — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:15:40 +0000

The deafening explosion rent the calm of the winter night. A house disappeared in a cloud of flame and dust, its thick earthen walls splaying into the street.

Source: US drone strikes in Pakistan tribal areas boost support for Taleban

Suspected US drone 'kills 14' in Pakistan

Niluccio — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:59:11 +0100

A suspected US drone fired a missile into a Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border today killing 14 militants, an intelligence agency official and residents said.

Source: Suspected US drone 'kills 14' in Pakistan

Suspected US drone 'kills 14' in Pakistan

Niluccio — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:58:41 +0100

A suspected US drone fired a missile into a Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border today killing 14 militants, an intelligence agency official and residents said.

Source: Suspected US drone 'kills 14' in Pakistan

'Dozens dead' in US drone strike

Niluccio — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:46:08 +0100

At least 45 people have died in a missile strike by a US drone aircraft in Pakistan, officials there have said.

The people killed in South Waziristan region had been attending a funeral for others killed in a US drone strike earlier on Tuesday.

Source: 'Dozens dead' in US drone strike

Secrecy and denial as Pakistan lets CIA use airbase to strike militants

Niluccio — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:30:22 +0000

The CIA is secretly using an airbase in southern Pakistan to launch the Predator drones that observe and attack al-Qaeda and Taleban militants on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan, a Times investigation has found.

Source: Secrecy and denial as Pakistan lets CIA use airbase to strike militants

President Obama 'orders Pakistan drone attacks'

Niluccio — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:33:29 +0000

Missiles fired from suspected US drones killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan today, the first such strikes since Barack Obama became president and a clear sign that the controversial military policy begun by George W Bush has not changed.

Source: President Obama 'orders Pakistan drone attacks'

UN drone inquiry

Niluccio — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:56:55 +0000

In using remotely piloted Predator drones for air strikes in Pakistan, the CIA claims to distinguish between civilians and "militant" targets (Suspected US missile strikes kill 27 in Pakistan, November 1). But in the wake of increasing numbers of civilian casualties, this intensified bombing campaign should be censured. The CIA has now used pilotless drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as an attack aircraft both inside a theatre of war (Afghanistan and Iraq) and outside (Pakistan and Yemen).

Source: UN drone inquiry