<<17 Pakistanis Killed in US Drone ‘Revenge’ Strike
<<Posted By Jason Ditz On February 2, 2010 @ 5:53 pm In Uncategorized | >>
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/02/at-least-17-killed-as-us-drones-fire-salvo-of-missiles-against-pakistan-village/<<Though there have surely been single strikes which netted a much larger death toll, like the June attack on a South Waziristan funeral, the United States today launched the single largest coordinated drone attack against a target inside Pakistan today.
<<In the attack, at least nine of the unmanned warplanes fired some 18 missiles against the tiny village of Deegan, in Datta Khel, killing at least 17 people and injuring numerous others.
The toll is expected to rise as the attacks, which hit multiple homes, left many people buried in rubble around the village.<<Officials say that Deegan is considered a “Taliban stronghold,” but
they have been unable to verify if any of the people killed in the attack were actually militants, or simply innocent villagers caught in the endless air war against North Waziristan.
<<The attack was the latest in an ever escalating campaign of air strikes by the Obama Administration, the 13th distinct attack in 2010 alone.
The attacks have killed around 150 people, but only a handful of those casualties are believed to have been militant leaders. Analysts say the dramatic increase in 2010 is “revenge” for the December 30 attack on a CIA base in Khost.>>
As far as I am concerned, stories like these are all the justification that any Muslim needs for revenge attacks inside the U.S. homeland. The bullshit hand-wringing over the "immorality" of "terrorists" who take "innocent" civilian lives is shown up as hypocritical nonsense by the actions of the U.S. government itself, and its agents.
I really did think that when Obama spoke of change, it would be a turning away from these tactics of wholesale murder and slaughter of innocents. Well, even though he only fooled me once, I still say, "Shame on ME." On me because I should have known better. Known that the chances of the sham democracy and phony "elections" of the U.S.A. would ever permit the slightest chance of "change" that ran counter to the interests of the military-industrial complex were practically nil and always have been.
I hope that nobody is so stupid as to think that this kind of tactic is going to make the U.S. any safer. On the contrary, it dramatically INCREASES the chance of a "terrorist" strike inside the U.S. homeland. In regards to which, see "Al Qaeda Certain to Attack in Next Three to Six Months" over here:
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/02/us-al-qaeda-certain-to-attack-in-next-3-6-months/As someone who travels regularly in and out of New York with my wife to see our children and grandchildren, at least we'll know who to thank if anything should happen to us or them on the way in or out.
