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In a report issued on Tuesday, the New American Foundation said that the US military has launched 114 airstrikes in Pakistan since 2004 and stated that one third of the people who have been killed were Pakistani civilians.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119903&sectionid=351020401



Former Pakistani Officer Embodies a Policy Puzzle

By CARLOTTA GALL

"The Taliban cannot be forced out, you cannot subjugate them," he said. "But they can tire the Americans. In another three to four years, the Americans will be tired."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24914.htm



U.S. Attack Kills 5 People In Pakistan

A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at least five people and wounding four others, officials said Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35764481/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/



US kills 12 people in Pakistan

Two suspected US drone attacks on Wednesday in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border killed at least 12 people, intelligence officials said.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/12-killed-in-US-drone-strikes-in-Pak/H1-Article1-517631.aspx



US kills up to 16 in Pakistan

Two successive bombing raids by unmanned spy planes hit a building and vehicles late Wednesday in North Waziristan, a bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/urzzd



Extrajudicial Killing: US kills 11 people in Pakistan

US drones fired at least four missiles at two rebel hideouts in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency, killing 11 suspected militants and injuring two others, TV news channels reported.

http://snipurl.com/uvipy



US Attack Kills Nine People In Pakistan

The first strike, made up of five missiles, targeted a (suspected) militant compound and a vehicle in Mazoni village, about 10 km west of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah. Two missiles were fired into Datta Kheil area, 40 km west of Miranshah, in the second attack.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0317/pakistan.html



US kills 10 people in Pakistan attacks

Ten more militants were killed and two others sustained injuries in two separate US drone attacks on Hamzoni and Mezar villages in North Waziristan on Wednesday.

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?225651



Pakistan: US missiles kill four

MSNBC

03/21/10

Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles Sunday at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people, officials said. The attack occurred in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, two intelligence officials said. The drones fired three missiles, they added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media...

http://tinyurl.com/y9cschs



US Kills Another 8 People In Pakistan

At least eight people were killed and four injured in two suspected US drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan Sunday, security officials said.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/614733/cs/1/



Pakistan: Two killed in yet another target killing incident

Two people were killed in an incident of target killing in Panjgoor town of Balochistan on Tuesday.

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US Kills 4 People In Pakistan

"We have confirmation of four deaths, so far. The death toll could be more," an intelligence official in the area said.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100323223209542C903985



CIA may face prosecution for drone's raids in Pakistan

The US government's refusal to offer legal grounds for CIA's drones bombing raids in Pakistan may result in CIA officers facing prosecution for war crimes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121594&sectionid=351020401


From Information Clearing House

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As drones multiply in Iraq and Afghanistan, so do their uses
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100303/ts_csm/284491

CIA drone attacks produce America's own unlawful combatants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103653_pf.html


Informant: Kev Hall

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One in Three Killed by US Drones in Pakistan Is a Civilian
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-1


Informant: Ashley Smith

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Pakistan: Five killed in US drone attack

MSNBC

03/08/10

A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at least five people and wounding four others, officials said Monday. The house was located in Miram Shah in North Waziristan. There was no information on who was targeted in the attack, although the U.S., in recent months, has stepped up drone strikes on alleged Taliban and al-Qaida suspects in the region...

http://tinyurl.com/yhcgzx3



Pakistan: North Waziristan drone kills 10

Daily Times [Pakistan]

03/17/10

US drones fired four missiles at a house in North Waziristan on Tuesday, 40 kilometres west of the agency headquarters near the Pak-Afghan border, [allegedly] killing 10 Taliban. The airstrike occurred around 12:45pm in Manzarkhel village located in Dattakhel tehsil. … it was not clear who was targeted in the strike in the Dattakhel region, two officials said on condition of anonymity. An unknown number of people were injured...

http://tinyurl.com/yc9n43n



Pakistan: US missiles kill three

USA Today
03/23/10

A suspected U.S. missile struck a house in northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border Tuesday, killing three people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The identities of the victims in Miran Shah in North Waziristan were not known, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media...

http://tinyurl.com/yfgboox


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Drones Obama’s weapon of choice for killing militants in tribal areas
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9462/



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There are more private security contractors from Xe, formerly Blackwater, operating in Islamabad than capital police, a religious leader said.

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US in Pakistan following typical pattern: 'black' to 'white' to conventional forces
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9392/

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The Expanding US War in Pakistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/05-9

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Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?

Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com: "Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration of war. No advance warning, nothing, in fact, that would have alerted the 'enemy' to the sudden, unprecedented bombing raids. The secret computer-guided strikes were authorized by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just weeks after a new American president entered the Oval Office."

http://www.truthout.org/operation-breakfast-redux-could-pakistan-2010-go-way-cambodia-196956744

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School bombing exposes Obama's secret war inside Pakistan

The discovery of the dead US soldiers revealed that America's shadowy war in Pakistan not only involves drones but also small cadres of special operations soldiers.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7017929.ece


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Ein Anschlag, den sich die Taliban zuschreiben, macht die pakistanische Bevölkerung auf die Präsenz amerikanischer Militärs in ihrem Land aufmerksam.

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Obama's 'secret war': U.S. soldiers killed inside Pakistan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obamas-secret-war-us-soldiers-killed-inside-pakistan/article1454272/



U.S. Says 200 Troops on the Ground in Pakistan

It's a whole lot more than the "no American troops in Pakistan" promised by special envoy Richard Holbrooke. And let's not even get into the number of U.S. intelligence operatives and security contractors on Pakistani soil.

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US Kills 17 In New Pakistan Attack

"Seventeen people have been reported killed. However, there is mounting fear that the death toll could be at least over two dozen or even cross 30." Locals were digging dead and wounded out of the debris.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201022151350906994.html



Obama proposes $1.2 bln to aid Pakistani military

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed $1.2 billion in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight Taliban militants.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=97643



US attack kills five in Pakistan

A US drone missile attack has killed at least five "suspected militants" at an alleged training compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118598&sectionid=351020401


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Washington's Refusal to Talk about Drone Strikes in Pakistan Meets Growing Opposition
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/02-7

Pentagon to Increase Stock of High-Altitude Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/05-7

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Obama Administration's Budget Calls for Billions of Dollars in New Spending for Drones

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "This is how major US defense contractors reacted to the Obama administration's unveiling of its fiscal year 2011 spending plan for the Pentagon, part of the president's overall $3.8 trillion budget proposal."

http://www.truthout.org/obama-administrations-budget-calls-billions-dollars-new-spending-drones56588



A Pitiless, Punitive Giant and the Death of Empire

Fran Schor, Truthout: "In the aftermath of the December 30 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees, US drone assaults in Pakistan's northwest border region have increased in number with the resultant 'collateral damage.' Seventeen such missile launchings occurred on February 2, the largest number in a single day."

http://www.truthout.org/a-pitiless-punitive-giant-and-death-empire56679

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Pakistan: Drone strikes kill 29

CNN

02/02/10

Several suspected U.S. drone strikes killed at least 29 people in Pakistan on Tuesday, Pakistani intelligence sources said. … The reported strikes were unusual for the relatively high number of missiles fired — at least 17, intelligence sources said — and for the high death toll. … The missiles hit targets Tuesday morning in at least four villages in North Waziristan, a region rife with Islamic extremists, the Pakistani intelligence sources said...

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By Amir Mir

Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successful drone strikes killed three al-Qaeda leaders, wanted by the Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24546.htm



US Attack Kills 15 In Pakistan

US drones have fired three missiles in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 15 people and injuring several others, Press TV reported.

http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1629889.html


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Beginning the day after the attack on a C.I.A. base in Khost, Afghanistan, the agency has carried out 11 strikes that have killed about 90 people suspected of being militants, according to Pakistani news reports.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/world/asia/23drone.html


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The Forty-Year Drone War
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2010/01/24/the-forty-year-drone-war/


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