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Gates conceded that US security companies Blackwater and DynCorp are operating in Pakistan in private capacities. He said the companies would comply with Pakistani laws.

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\22\story_22-1-2010_pg1_1



Pakistan Govt stumped over Blackwater debate in Senate

The minister failed to address the issue after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Zafar Ali Shah, citing US Defence Secretary Robert Gates' statement that the security agency was indeed operating in Pakistan, demanded that Interior Minister Rehman Malik tender his resignation.

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\23\story_23-1-2010_pg7_5


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Pakistan is likely to become a more Islamist state and increasingly anti-American in the coming years, complicating U.S. efforts to win its support against Islamist militants, a report released on Tuesday said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B01F20100112



Another US Attack in Pakistan Kills 20 People

At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

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US attack in Pakistan kills 15 people

Missiles fired from American aircraft killed as many as 15 people in western Pakistan on Sunday, Pakistani security officials said, part of an increased campaign by the United States to use drones to kill militants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/world/asia/18pstan.html



New US Attack in Pakistan kills another 6 people

A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing six militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

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Pakistan: Three die in suspected US drone attack

CNN

01/19/10

Three militants were killed Tuesday in a suspected U.S. drone strike on a compound near the Afghan border, officials told CNN. The drone fired two missiles about 6:30 p.m. local time on the compound in Daigan, a village in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan, an intelligence official and a local government official said. The Dattakhel area has been the target of several drone attacks in recent months...

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US Attacks in Pakistan Killed 700 Civilians in 2009

By The Peninsula

Of the 44 Predator strikes carried out by the American drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan in 12 months of 2009, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of around 700 innocent civilian lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24309.htm



CIA Attacker Driven in From Pakistan

The suicide bomber who killed at least six Central Intelligence Agency officers in a base along the Afghan-Pakistan border on Wednesday was a regular CIA informant who had visited the same base multiple times in the past, according to someone close to the base's security director.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/cia-attacker-driven-pakistan/story?id=9463880



Fresh US attacks kill 5 in Pakistan

Fresh attacks by American unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) on Sunday killed five people in Pakistan's North Waziristan.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115265&sectionid=351020401



Pakistan: Foreigners among five killed in US attack

Five people, two of them locals and three foreigners, were killed and a few others sustained injuries in a missile attack by a CIA-operated spy aircraft on a Hujra and an adjacent house in Mosaki village in Mirali subdivision, North Waziristan, on Sunday evening.

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US attack 'kills 15' people in Pakistan

At least 15 people were killed and several more injured in two suspected attacks by US drones in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district on Wednesday, a security official said.

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US Kills 4 People In Pakistan

Four "suspected militants" were killed and two injured in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district Friday by a missile fired from a what was thought to be a US pilotless aircraft, an intelligence official said.

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US hunt for Haqqani network 'a nightmare for Pakistan

The US will push Pakistan hard to take the risky move of going after the Haqqani militant network if the group is linked to a Jordanian who killed seven Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employees in Afghanistan.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\08\story_8-1-2010_pg1_8



US Attack In Pakistamn Kills Five People

Five more people were killed and six others sustained injuries in yet another US drone attack on a remote village in Dattakhel Tehsil in the troubled North Waziristan tribal region on Saturday night.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?223234



US attack kills 11people in Pakistan: officials

Two US drone missile attacks killed at least 11 militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border Friday, destroying their compounds, Pakistani officials said.

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Pakistan: Three US drones flatten house, kill 13

Daily Times [Pakistan]

01/06/10

Three US drones targeted a house in the Dattakhel tehsil of North Waziristan on Wednesday, killing 13 people. Two of the three missiles fired hit the house in Sumzalai, 50 kilometers west of Miranshah, at around 4pm, killing seven people, while the third missile struck the same house at around 4:50pm, killing six people...

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Pakistan: US drone strikes kill “ten militants”

BBC News [UK]

01/14/10

Two US drone missile strikes have killed 10 suspected militants in a tribal region of north-west Pakistan, Pakistani officials say. The missiles struck a compound in the Pasalkot area in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border. … Reports said the missiles landed early Thursday morning in a sprawling compound which was used as a religious school in the past. It is the fifth suspected US drone attack in North Waziristan since the beginning of the year...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8458354.stm


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Amid a deepening political crisis in Pakistan and growing popular unrest over US missile strikes and mercenaries, it has been revealed that over the past five years US special operations troops have conducted a number of clandestine cross-border raids into the country's tribal areas.

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A senior U.S. diplomat hinted at a separate agreement that would allow the U.S. itself to take on some of the hidden war against Pakistan's militants.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091220/ap_on_an/as_us_pakistan_analysis



US Forces Mounted Secret Pakistan Raids in Hunt for al-Qaida

By Declan Walsh in Islamabad

US special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Washington is pressing to expand its drone assassination programme.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24239.htm



Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad

By Eric Margolis

Now, in a delicious irony, Washington is finally getting the democracy it has been calling for in Pakistan - and it's the Mother of all Backfires.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24259.htm


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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


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Drone war on Taliban stalls as groups move out of tribal areas into heart of Pakistan
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Fox News

12/03/09

The White House has approved an expansion of the CIA’s drone program in Pakistan, the New York Times reported. The Obama administration reportedly is talking with Pakistan about expanding the program from Waziristan to Baluchistan, a controversial move since it is outside the tribal areas. Baluchistan is where Afghan Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding...

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US attack kills three people in Pakistan: officials

The New York Times on Friday reported that the The White House had authorised the CIA to expand the use of unmanned aerial drones in Pakistan to track down and strike suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda members.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091208/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwestmissile



Afghans protest after civilian killed in US-led raid

Hundreds of Afghans have held anti-US and anti-government demonstrations against a recent US-led attack which reportedly claimed the lives of 15 non-combatants.

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Afghan government says occupation force killed six civilians

NATO officials on Tuesday disputed a report by the Afghan government that a NATO raid in eastern Afghanistan earlier in the day had killed six civilians, saying only seven militants died in the operation.

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Pakistan Rebuffs US on Taliban Crackdown
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Obgleich die US-Regierung die Kooperation mit dem berüchtigten Söldnerunternehmen einstellen wollte, sollen Pentagon und CIA dieses weiter für geheime Operationen beauftragen.

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The US drone attacked twice North Waziristan leaving 11 dead and many injured on Friday.

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Flying Blind

Winslow Myers, Truthout: "Predator drones kill al-Qaeda leaders without risk to American soldiers; dangerous plotters of terror are efficiently annihilated; and those not yet killed are kept off-balance, in a constant state of fear. What's not to like? For starters, the moral indecency of it."

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