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Interior Minister Rehman Malik , "They're getting mid-level people, not big fish," he said. "And they are counterproductive because they are killing civilians and turning locals against our government. We try to win people's hearts, then one drone attack drives them away. One attack alone last week killed 50 people."

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Stop bombing us: Osama isn't here, says Pakistan

Washington does not directly acknowledge its missile attacks on Pakistani territory by unmanned drone aircraft but Pakistani officials say the US has carried out more than 40 attacks inside its borders in the past 10 months, killing hundreds of people.

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Ishtiaq Mahsud, The Associated Press: "Suspected US drones launched two missile attacks on Taliban targets in the South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least 45 militants in the latest in a barrage of strikes close to the Afghan border, intelligence officials said."

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Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Drone Attacks

By Jeremy Scahill

Damn those ungrateful Pakistanis. After U.S. drone attacks killed more than 600 of their people since 2006-most of them civilians-it seems they think they have some right to say they don't want the U.S. flying its "aid" planes to Swat and other "tribal areas.

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Extrajudicial Killing: Pakistan

At least 17 killed in 'US attack: U.S. missiles struck a "training facility" operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant communication center Friday, killing 17 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said.

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US Attack On Pakistan Kills 16

At least 16 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a training camp run by Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader, in South Waziristan, close to the Afghan border, intelligence officials say.

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CounterPunch
by Kathy Kelly

06/25/09

If we want to counter Al-Qaeda, if we want to be safe from further terrorist attacks, we’d do well to remember that even when we don’t recognize the humanity of people bearing the brunt of our wars, these very people have eyes to see and ears to hear. They must be asking themselves, who are the terrorists?

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Despite Attempts to Downplay It

By Jeremy Scahill

It is clear -- and has been for a long time -- that the Obama administration is radically expanding the U.S. war in Afghanistan deeply into Pakistan. Whether it is through U.S. military trainers (that's what they were called in Vietnam too), drone attacks or commando raids inside the country, the U.S. is militarily entrenched in Pakistan. It makes Obama's comment that "[W]e have no intention of sending U.S. troops into Pakistan" simply unbelievable.

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Extrajudicial Killing: U.S. attack kills at least 45 in Pakistan

The "militants" were meeting after a funeral in the South Waziristan region, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

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Suspected US strike reportedly kills 60 at funeral

New York Times

06/23/09

A suspected United States drone strike killed at least 60 people at a funeral gathering in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said. Details of the attack, which occurred in Makeen, remained sketchy but the reported death toll was exceptionally high and, if indeed accurate and carried out by a drone, would make the strike perhaps the deadliest since the United States began using the unmanned aircraft to fire remotely guided missiles at suspected Taliban and Qaeda members in Pakistan’s tribal areas. If confirmed the strike would be the 23rd by a United States drone this year, as the Obama administration has intensified a policy inherited from the Bush administration...

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Operation Enduring Folly: US Kills 60 More in Pakistan Air Strike
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/24-5

Airstrike Report Belies 'Blame Taliban' Line
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Among the new drones (which are all very small) are the Suburb Warrior (loaded with four or five mini missiles for semi-urban environments), the Sniper targeting system ("that can lock on to multiple targets, allowing a single drone pilot to coordinate the attacks of a squadron of robots"), and a backup fleet of flying buggies that act as suicide-bomber snipers.

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Guardian [UK]
by Pankaj Mishra

06/17/09

Unless the US president can break his hardline posture, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan could prove his Vietnam...

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By Ali Khan

For all practical purposes, the Pashtuns are now subsumed under the title of the Taliban. The caricature is simple and compelling: It highlights the Taliban as the paramount enemy without ever mentioning the Pashtun resistance to the eight-year old occupation of Afghanistan.

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A suspected US missile strike killed at least five people on Sunday in a tribal region where Pakistan's top Taliban commander is based, intelligence officials said, breaking a lull in such attacks and posing a test for growing anti-Taliban sentiment.

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