World-News

Chasing Shadows In Pakistan

By Iftekhar A Khan

The hawks of the military industrial complex and national security advisers who war-game with public lives and resources in alien lands dictate US policies. Would Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of Hellfire missiles and General Atomics, manufacturer of Predator and Reaper drones that fire these missiles want the war to end?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24213.htm



US attack kills 16 people in Pakistan

Local officials were quoted as saying that around 5:45 p.m., 10 missiles were fired at two compounds in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan tribal regency.

http://snipurl.com/tqoe9



US drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents

One of America's most sophisticated weapons in the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the unmanned drone, has been successfully penetrated by insurgents using software available on the internet for $26 (£16).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-american-drones-hacked



Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes

Militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft - from traditional fighters and bombers to unmanned spy planes. The problem is in the process of being addressed. But for now, an enormous security breach is even larger than previously thought.

http://snipurl.com/trgz1



US attacks in Pakistan kill at least 20 people

US drones launched missiles into North Waziristan in Pakistan in a barrage of attacks Thursday and Friday. It was one of the largest such attacks in the controversial program the Obama administration has continued and intensified.

http://snipurl.com/trgvy



Pakistan: 10 civilians killed in Orakzai air raids

Ten persons, including women and children, were killed when fighter jets while bombing the militants' hideouts in Orakzai Agency on Friday hit the houses of five tribesmen in the Ferozkhel Mela area.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?222733



Extrajudicial executions: US kills five people in NW Pakistan: officials

At least five people were killed Saturday when missiles from an unmanned US aircraft hit a suspected militant compound in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, security officials said.

http://snipurl.com/tvfdg



US kills civilians in Pakistan home

Local security officials told Al Jazeera that those killed in the attack were all civilians.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/20091226153246297157.html



US attack kills 13 in Pakistan

According to details, a missile fired by US unmanned aircraft had initially killed four militants in the border village of Saidgai in North Waziristan Agency Saturday.

http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=7206



US Attack Kils 8 In Pakistan

The attack came hours after a similar strike in Mirali, officials of the local political administration said.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/44280/8-militants-killed-us-drone.html


From Information Clearing House

--------

Drone war on Taliban stalls as groups move out of tribal areas into heart of Pakistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9233/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waziristan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tribal+areas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hawk
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extrajudicial+killing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iftekhar+A+Khan