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Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: "Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan's remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among US intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by prompting Islamist radicals to disperse into the country's heartland."

http://www.truthout.org/040809S



The Scream and the Drone

J. Sri Raman, Truthout: "The scream of 17-year-old Chand Bibi of the Swat Valley has been heard across Pakistan for over a week now. The drone of remotely operated US gunships over the country's mountainous western frontier has been heard for months. What the world needs to hear now is the voice of Pakistan in response to both the scream and the drone. Much of the world has by now heard the scream, too, and watched the merciless flogging of the teenage girl as Taliban punishment for alleged transgression of a misogynist code of morality: she had been caught coming out of her house with a male 'stranger.' The date of the incident was not clear and versions of it differed in minor detail. The local Taliban leader, however, proudly owned up to the punishment meted out for the insinuated, 'anti-Islam' offense."

http://www.truthout.org/040909K

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US Kills 3 People In Pakistan

At least three "militants" were killed Wednesday in the latest US attack in Pakistan's bordering tribal agency, said sources.

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