Thousands flee bomb attacks by US drones - Times Online »
Posted By dissent 8 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsAMERICAN drone attacks on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, Pakistani officials claimed after a new attack yesterday killed 13 people.
The dead and injured included foreign militants, but women and children were also killed when two missiles hit a house in the village of Data Khel, near the Afghan border, according to local officials.
As many as 1m people have fled their homes in the Tribal Areas to escape attacks by the unmanned spy planes as well as bombings by the Pakistani army. In Bajaur agency entire villages have been flattened by Pakistani troops under growing American pressure to act against Al-Qaeda militants, who have made the area their base.
Kacha Garhi is one of 11 tented camps across Pakistan’s frontier province once used by Afghan refugees and now inhabited by hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis made homeless in their own land.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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canadianrancher578 months, 2 weeks ago
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For those who think that military action against terrorist is the right way to do things, could you stop and think about it again. The attacks by these drones as well as the Pakistan military is just going to create a whole new group of terrorists.
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GLee8 months, 2 weeks ago
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I am all for hunting down and exterminating terrorist and mistakes will happen just avoid them at great cost. We are at war and it is tragic but the job isn't finished. Those of you who think that if we can sit down and chat with them everything will be ok..... be sure and have a lead shield around your neck or you will come home headless. If you have never dealt with these types of people you may not realize that they hold no value for American life. It is war.
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FrankHummel8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well of COURSE they do not value "American Life". Evidently, "American Life" does not much "value" THEM! What would anybody EXPECT?! Your best bet would be to not generate EVEN MORE such hatred and enmity by trying to "stomp it out" (in the phrase of one of the above posts).
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The REALITY is actually that the Rubes who are being "goosed" to hate others elsewhere in the world are THEMSELVES being USED to further the designs and "advance" the little "empires" of people who would GOAD them into "doing THEIR dirty work" for them --- while THEY "lead from the rear". -
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hyperbola8 months, 2 weeks ago
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So much for Obama's "fine words" about wanting to be a friend of moslem nations. His actions already show he is simply continuing american military imperialism, whilst lying to both Americans and the world. Not very different from Bush.
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The secrets of Obama's surge in Afghanistan
Is United States President Barack Obama telling it like it is as far as his new strategy for the Afghanistan and Pakistan war theater - AfPak, in Pentagonspeak - is concerned? There are reasons to believe otherwise. ...
The Afghanistan-Pakistan war has got to be 2009's prime theater of the absurd. It took the New York Times and the usual "American officials" something like 13 years to "discover" that the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) - a Central Intelligence Agency twin - helps the Taliban. And this while the CIA, alongside their ISI pals, is compiling a mega hit list in the Pashtun tribal areas inside Pakistan. Maybe this is what US Central Command supremo General David "I'm always positioning myself for 2012" Petraeus means by a "trilateral" love affair, as he told CNN's State of the Union. ...
Obama is selling the surge basically as nation building, based on trust. A hard sell if there ever was one - as Washington cannot trust the ISI or the Pakistani government, while the Pakistani masses don't trust Washington.
Insistent rumors in Washington point to a troika - Holbrooke-Petraeus-Clinton - finally being able to convince Obama that the surge should be just the first step towards long-range nation building. Anyone with minimal familiarity with Afghanistan knows this is an impossible strategic target. ...
Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special envoy to AfPak, finally let it slip on CNN: the "people we are fighting in Afghanistan" are essentially ... Pashtuns. This was followed by a stark admission: "In the informational side ... we don't have a strong enough counter-informational program to combat the Taliban and al-Qaeda."
So this amounts to the State Department admitting that the Pentagon/Petraeus "humint" (human intelligence) component of counter-insurgency in AfPak, hailed as a gift from the Messiah all across US corporate media, is essentially useless. This also means there's no way of winning local hearts and minds.-
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