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Two suspected U.S. missile attacks today killed 18 people in Pakistan just east of the Afghan border, the first such strikes since the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/576172



Pakistan urges Obama to halt missile attacks

Pakistan urged President Barack Obama to halt U.S. missile strikesr, saying Saturday that civilians were killed the previous day in the first attacks since Obama's inauguration.

http://tinyurl.com/bf73tn


From Information Clearing House

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New US Administration Launches Airstrikes in Pakistan

R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick, The Washington Post: "Two remote US missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in northwestern Pakistan yesterday offered the first tangible sign of President Obama's commitment to sustained military pressure on the terrorist groups there, even though Pakistanis broadly oppose such unilateral US actions."


http://www.truthout.org/012409A



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