U.S. drone missiles kill at least six in Pakistan

[elias49]

Source: Reuters

U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a Taliban compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least six militants, Pakistani security officials said.
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"The compound has been destroyed completely. It's been cordoned off by Taliban and we got information that they've recovered at least six bodies," said an intelligence agency official in the region, who declined to be identified.
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The United States, struggling to stabilize Afghanistan, stepped up its missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest after a Jordanian suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees at a U.S. base across the border in the eastern Afghan province of Khost in December.
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Pakistan is investigating whether a Pakistani-American arrested over a botched plot to bomb New York's Times Square met Pakistani Taliban leaders in their stronghold in the northwest, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6480DY20100509?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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More remote-controlled murder. It makes my heart go boom, boom, boom.

[ixion]

1. more war crimes...wheee!

:(

[rug]

2. There must be a joke in there somewhere.

[RainMickey]

3. The joke's on us, but I'm not laughing. EOM

[EFerrari]

5. Reuters.

[hack89]

4. Obama to the Hague? nt

[conspirator]

6. Kill baby kill. TERRA TERRA nt

[ixion]

7. Okay, Cross reference this report with this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4374107

See, when we bomb Pakistan, we're liberating. When they fight back, they're terrorists.

:crazy:

[scentopine]

8. Let me guess - another high ranking Al-Qaeda is presumed dead and

will surface in a few months after its determined that a dozen or so innocent men women and children were slaughtered in an unfortunate mistake.

[OhioChick]

9. Likely so. n/t

[Ticonderoga]

10. Ah C'mon Obama

Not this shit again. Militants in Military Speak = Civilians, mostly Women and Children. Assholes.

[ShockediSay]

11. Yet Repugs say it was luck that the underwear bomber and the Times Sq

bomber were incompetent.

You'd be an incompetent bomb maker too if your trainers had one eye on the sky and one eye on getting you out as quickly as possible.

[Flaneur]

12. The Pakistani Taliban didn't used to try to blow up New York.

Go, war on terror! Create more bombers aimed at us.