08 September 2008

Gotta get better intelligence

The Washington Post (in a column by Shaiq Hussain), al-Reuters (in a column by Haji Mujtaba), and the Christian Science Monitor (in a column by David Montero) all have articles about the recent 'ah, shit, we'd'a sworn they were in there' missile strike by a Predator drone on a madrasa in Western Pakistan:
The hit killed sixteen people, including four women and two children. Fifteen to twenty wounded people, most of them women and children, had been taken to hospital in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan.
The missile strike occurred around 10:30 a.m. in the small village of Dande Darpa Khel in the tribal area of North Waziristan. Bashirullah, a resident of the village who like many ethnic Pashtuns only uses one name, said two Predator drones fired six missiles at a religious seminary school run by top Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani. The intense, rapid-fire bombing raid also destroyed Haqqani's nearby home and several other houses, Bashirullah said.
U.S.-led forces recently stepped up cross-border attacks against al Qaeda and Taliban targets in Pakistani tribal areas.
Helicopter-borne commandos carried out a ground assault in South Waziristan last Wednesday, the first known incursion into Pakistan by U.S. troops since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
Pakistani officials said twenty people, including women and children, were killed in the attack which drew a furious response from the government and stoked anti-American sentiment.
A day later, four Islamist militants were killed and five wounded in a suspected U.S. drone attack in North Waziristan.
Security officials said five people were killed in another drone attack on Friday, but the Pakistan military denied it.

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