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Drone strike kills four in N Waziristan | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

MIRAMSHAH: A drone strike in Datakhel area of North Waziristan tribal region killed four persons on Sunday, DawnNews reported.

Political administration sources told Dawn.com that the drone targeted a compound with two missiles killing at least four persons all of whom belonged to the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group operating in the area.

The last drone attack in the region that place on Mar 22.

North Waziristan region is close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and is one of the seven regions in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), governed by tribal laws.

Attacks by unmanned US aircraft are deeply unpopular in Pakistan, which says they violate its sovereignty and fan anti-US sentiment, but US officials are said to believe the attacks are too important to give up.

So this is the reason Obama increased baksheesh by 40%. Seems like US is after good Talibans
going by shitlander's definition.

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Some wh0re crying over good bunnies meeting their 72 :laugh:

Pakistan strongly condemns US drone attack in N Waziristan | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned the US-led drone strike in North Waziristan tribal region which killed at least four people on Sunday.

According to a statement issued by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday such unilateral attacks are in contravention of international law and counter-productive to the stability of this country. The Government maintained its position that drone strikes violate its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

Such attacks also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations, added the Foreign Office's statement.

The Government of Pakistan calls upon the US Government to stop such attacks based on mutual respect and established international norms.
It sounds like somebody begging "please don't rape me, it is not a good thing" :laugh:
 

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A day before, Red cross does some wh0re crying

Red Cross chief criticises US drone use in Pakistan | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

GENEVA: Red Cross chief Peter Maurer on Tuesday condemned US drone strikes outside areas officially engulfed in armed conflict, warning against a creeping expansion of the definition of what constitutes a battlefield.

Washington's secretive and controversial use of drones was not a problem in itself, said Maurer, as in the context of an armed conflict drones are considered legitimate weapons.

"But if a drone is used in a country where there is no armed conflict"¦there is a problem," the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross told reporters in Geneva, urging the "very restrained use" of the weapon.

"A drone used in Afghanistan or Yemen is a drone used within the context of an armed conflict, and is thereby used legitimately," he said. But drone use in Pakistan was "particularly problematic" he said.

Returning from a trip to the United States, where he met with President Barack Obama, Maurer told AFP that "the US is very aware"¦ of where we disagree with the use of drones".

The main problem with drone strikes today is a widening interpretation of what constitutes a battlefield, he said.

"To link (the definition of) battlefields to combatants on the move is an interpretation that we don't share," he said.

Lawmakers and rights advocates have criticised the US for its strikes against suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere, but US officials refuse to publicly discuss any details of the covert campaign.

Maurer said he had also used his trip to urge Washington to swiftly address the problem of Guantanamo, where dozens of prisoners have been staging a hunger strike since February.

Obama moved to close the controversial US detention facility in 2009, but plans to try suspects in US civilian courts were stymied by Congress, leaving many inmates in limbo.

"I think the lack of perspective in terms of transfer"¦ is at the origin of the big malaise that has been transformed into a hunger strike," Maurer said.

While the Red Cross regularly visits the Guantanamo detainees, its reports on the prison's conditions remain privy to the US government.
And today

US drone strike kills five in South Waziristan :laugh:

US drone strike kills five in South Waziristan – The Express Tribune

MIRANSHAH: A US drone fired two missiles into a Taliban training camp in South Waziristan on Wednesday, destroying the compound and killing at least five suspected militants, local officials said.
The attack took place in the Baber Ghar area of the South Waziristan tribal district on the Afghan border, a stronghold of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud, where the faction runs several camps.
"The target was a base of the TTP. Five militants have been killed and two injured," a local security official told AFP.
Another official in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, confirmed the attack and told AFP the drone targeted a base of TTP.
Pakistan repeatedly denounces US drone strikes, criticising them as a violation of sovereignty that inflame anti-Americanism despite leaked US diplomatic cables that showed leaders allegedly agreed to them in private.
UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights envoy Ben Emmerson, who visited Islamabad last month as part of an investigation into civilian casualties caused by drone strikes, said the US drone attacks violated Pakistan's sovereignty.
According to Britain's Bureau of Investigative Journalism, CIA drone attacks in Pakistan have killed up to 3,587 people since 2004, up to 884 of them civilians.
 

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