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Pakistan: New US attack kills 3 in North Waziristan

A US drone fired a missile into a vehicle in Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border killing at least three" militants" on Monday, in the second such strike in 24 hours, officials said.

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US attack kills seven in Miramshah

Missiles from a US drone aircraft killed seven "militants" at a training compound in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday, officials said. Two missiles slammed into a building near Miramshah, the main town in NWA.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=27264



Missile that killed Afghan civilians not faulty

NATO forces in Afghanistan have resumed using a type of rocket that killed 12 civilians after concluding that the missile hit its intended target and did not veer off course, a NATO commander said on Tuesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24729.htm



US attack kills 4 in Pakistan

The residents said the Wednesday attack targeted a house in Tapi Tolkhel village, just five kilometers from the border with the Afghan province of Khost.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24726.htm



Extrajudicial Killing: Brother of Afghan Taliban Leader Among US Kills 4 In Pakistan Attack

Four people were killed when missiles struck a house on Thursday night in the Dande Darpa Khel of North Waziristan, two Pakistani intelligence officials told The Associated Press. One of the dead was Mohammed Haqqani, the brother of Siraj Haqqani, the officials said.

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US attack kills 8 in Pakistan

A US drone aircraft fires three missiles into northwest Pakistan, killing at least eight people in a tribal district near the Afghan border.

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Buying the right to murder Pakistani citizens

US transfers $ 349.3 million to Pakistan from coalition support fund

The Coalition Support Fund covers payments for money Pakistan spends in support of the ongoing international operations in Afghanistan.With the latest transfer of funds, claims for dues up to December 2008 have been cleared, sources said.

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Four killed in Pakistan after rocket lands on house

A mother and three children were killed in the blast and three others in the house at the time were also injured.

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Extrajudicial Killing: US kills nine suspected militants in Pakistan

Nine suspected militants from Punjab were killed in a US drone attack on a house in Peerano Killay near Miramshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, on Wednesday, official and tribal sources said.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=27490


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: US drone strike kills four

Agence France-Presse

02/16/10

A US drone strike killed at least four Islamist insurgents Wednesday at a compound close to the Afghan border in Pakistan’s militant-infested tribal belt, security officials said. The attack was the third since Sunday in North Waziristan district, a stronghold of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Haqqani network known for staging attacks across the border on US and NATO troops fighting the Taliban...

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Some policies don’t change

In These Times
by Leonard C. Goodman

02/23/10

Obama has changed the rhetoric of the Bush Administration. Unfortunately, he has not changed the destructive policies that continue to make us less safe and that increase the likelihood of future terror attacks. Like Bush, Obama claims the right to perpetually detain any person deemed to be a threat without interference from the courts. Obama is simultaneously carrying on the Bush policy of incinerating any person deemed a threat by drone or air-strike...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5546/some_policies_dont_change/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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