Posted on 01/17/2010 9:14:59 AM PST by NormsRevenge
MIR ALI, Pakistan – At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
Four missiles slammed into the house in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan, the same region where a drone strike Thursday targeted a meeting of militant commanders in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to kill Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.
The militant leader helped organize the Dec. 30 attack against a remote CIA base in Afghanistan's Khost province that killed seven of the agency's employees and appeared in a video alongside the Jordanian man who carried out the bombing.
Analysts suspect the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida-linked Afghan Taliban faction based in North Waziristan, also helped carry out the CIA attack, the worst against the spy agency in decades.
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“Excellent image”
It’s a drawing - not my medium. Occasionally I post ones that aren’t mine.
“Or killing people by dehydration and starvation”
Agreed. That must have been the post painful death ever - maybe even something like crucifixion - it would have been more humane if they’d got their SEIU guy to kick Mrs Shiavo until she stopped breathing.
| > Very strange laws we have.
Option #2 from above is not law. We didn't have Mirandizing and civil trial of Terrorists captured out of the US under George Bush ... These things are driven by the judgment and agenda of the POTUS, who just so happens to also be the CinC ...
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Sure would be neat if we could get the FR logo on one of those birds.
Technically, that is not a Predator. It is a Reaper. The obvious difference is that the predator has a V tail pointing down while the Reaper has it pointing up with a smaller fin pointing down.
But we all see where this is going. Give it another five years. All the pilots will be in North Dakota going home to the wife and kids after each mission. And the planes will out-fly the Raptor.
Thanks for the tech heads up.
The house targeted in Sunday's attack was being used by Usman Jan, the head of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, intelligence officials said.
Five Uzbeks were killed in the strike, but it was unclear if Jan was among them. Jan's predecessor, Tahir Yuldash, was also killed in a drone strike in South Waziristan last year.
WE need to get this right or get out. There are 100 million people now pissed off because we don’t know what we are doing. Kill the enemy!!! Not children!!! I am sick of it!!
Those Predator pilots have a really tough job....really.
Dead muzzies everywhere!
Damn, I love those guys!
At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.Thanks NormsRevenge. Rumor should be spread (and it would go viral in no time) that these drones and their armaments are dipped in pig's blood -- but only if they're being used against the Islamofascists. It's their stupid superstition, after all, and it would discourage recruitment. What would the recruiters do, tell those resistant to the spiel that the pig thing is just a baseless nitwit legend?
Kill jihads, kill jihads, kill more jihads!
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