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The exodus of civilians from Orakzai adds to the more than 1.3 million people driven from their homes by fighting in the northwest and unable to return...The United States has carried out scores of missile attacks in the northwest over the last 18 months, killing many alleged insurgents. Some independent experts and rights groups have alleged many civilians have also died. Independent reporting of the attacks is impossible.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
The people are fleeing the Pakistani military's offensive, not the US military. This has nothing to do with the US military.
Pakistan is trying to maintain internal security.
Originally posted by Acid_Burn2009
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
The people are fleeing the Pakistani military's offensive, not the US military. This has nothing to do with the US military.
Pakistan is trying to maintain internal security.
Glad you pointed that out.
Maybe people should read the article before blindly assuming it is U.S. forces
Citing statistics compiled by Pakistani government officials, Dawn reports that these missile strikes succeeded in killing only “five key Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders,” while their so-called collateral damage included the lives of 708 innocent civilians.
“For each Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorist killed by US drones, 140 innocent Pakistanis also had to die,” the newspaper reports. “Over 90 per cent of those killed in the deadly missile strikes were civilians, claim authorities.”
ISLAMABAD — In the first such strikes since the inauguration of President Obama, suspected U.S. missile barrages Friday killed at least 18 people in the lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.
The two raids suggested that the new administration intends to press ahead with attacks against militants in the rural areas, even though the campaign has been politically costly to Pakistan's Western-leaning government.
Originally posted by Leo Strauss
reply to post by Acid_Burn2009
Did you read the "snippet" above??? The article mentions "scores" of missile attacks by the US over the past 18 months. "Scores" is defined as "a great many" a "score" can also mean a group of twenty...so "scores" plural would mean many groups of twenty...
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Citing statistics compiled by Pakistani government officials, Dawn reports that these missile strikes succeeded in killing only “five key Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders,” while their so-called collateral damage included the lives of 708 innocent civilians.
“For each Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorist killed by US drones, 140 innocent Pakistanis also had to die,” the newspaper reports. “Over 90 per cent of those killed in the deadly missile strikes were civilians, claim authorities.”
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ISLAMABAD — In the first such strikes since the inauguration of President Obama, suspected U.S. missile barrages Friday killed at least 18 people in the lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.
The two raids suggested that the new administration intends to press ahead with attacks against militants in the rural areas, even though the campaign has been politically costly to Pakistan's Western-leaning government.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
This has nothing to do with the US military.
Originally posted by Kaytagg
There didn't seem to be too big of a problem before the US started raining missiles down on "insurgents."
If some big powerful nation flew drones over my neighborhood and shot up homes with missiles from the sky, there'd be a huge insurrection here, too.