Reply With QuoteIn the meanwhile, the Pakistani government is drafting a protest letter claiming the ISI is running out of employees.
US drones kill 10 in North Waziristan
The US launched its second drone strike in a week, hitting a Taliban compound in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
The unmanned Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers fired four missiles at a compound in the village of Darr-e-Nishtar in the Shawal Valley. Ten "militants' were killed and one more was wounded in the strike, The Express Tribune reported. The Associated Press reported that eight missiles were fired at the compound and eight militants were killed. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda leaders have been reported killed.
The compound was known to be used as a training center, according to Dawn. It is unclear which terror group in the area ran the compound. Al Qaeda, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, and Taliban fighters under the command of Hafiz Gul Bahadar, the leader of the Taliban in North Waziristan, are known to operate in the Shawal Valley, which is near the border with Afghanistan.
In the meanwhile, the Pakistani government is drafting a protest letter claiming the ISI is running out of employees.
Kudos, that made me laugh pretty hard!Originally Posted by TheOrangeMan
Please, no more drone strikes; they need to regroup.
x2...and wicked_hind, you've got a great avatar.Kudos, that made me laugh pretty hard!
Good job!
Would be nice to see the video.
I am somewhat illiterate when it comes to drone strikes, so please bear with me.
1. Before the attack - how is the target picked out and identity of those on site confirmed?
2. During the attack - how is it confirmed that no stray innocent civilians are being on the site? Or is it even accepted as collateral damage (in case of high value targets only, I hope)?
3. After the attack - how is the identity of those killed in the attack confirmed as terrorists and/or militants?
Thanks.
ISI too would love to know that
Are you saying that US is executing drone strikes on the territory of a foreign country without them having basic info about it?ISI too would love to know that
Wow.
No, he's joking around that probably some of the insurgents killed had Pakistani ties or were possibly even ISI themselves, if I understood it correctly.
Most of this should be OPSEC for some good reason
ISI is often called the "evil mastermind" behind the Taliban insurgents and the Pakistani government is often blamed for double-crossing it's Western "allies" in the GWOT. Therefor the side blow against ISI
Few less terrorists. very nice. Btw,If Pakistan will destroy American UAVS what will happen?
CIA Spokesman Kiz Mahazz responds with, "Don't worry about it."
It's a procedure called none of your damn business....
Huh? You're probably right since the only thing I'm expressing here is genuine curiosity about it, but if I was a US citizen I'd sure as hell want to know how the human beings blown up by the stuff I'm paying for and by the people I vote for are identified since that would make me co-responsible. If they are indeed terrorists caught during planting a roadside bomb or preparing a suicide attack, then you can trust me I'll be the first to applaud when I see them blown to pieces. But what if they aren't - or, in other words, how is it made sure that they are?
So are you basically saying they can blow up a gathering of tribal elders during their weekly session of bacgammon just because some stuff on a cart one of them came with could be resembling an IDE (or, on the other hand, a bag of carrots) from the satellite image, or are the procedures much more stringent and also hush hush? And also after the attack - we are told they were "terrorists" - I mean how do they know that? Did somebody go to the site, checked it out and confirmed the identity? Or is it simply assumed?
I have a personal experience of living in a country that was attacked, bombed and occupied by a foreign force - and I've witnessed with my own eyes how easy it is to bomb civilians and then claim they were "terrorists and insurgents, obviously", mocking any no matter how hard piece of evidence as "pathetic propaganda stories with staged photography".
Don't get me wrong - I'll say it again - if they are found with certainty to be terrorists, then give them hell. I only wanted to know how this certainty is checked first, since doing so in a sovreign foreign country probably isn't simple and straightforward.
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