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Kathy Kelly, Truthout: "The most recent plane to attack the Pakistani village of Khaisor (according to a Waziristan resident who asked me to withhold his name) came 20 days ago, on May 20, 2009. A US drone airplane fired a missile at the village at 4:30 AM, killing 14 women and children and two elders, wounding 11."

http://www.truthout.org/061009R



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Asia Times
by Pepe Escobar

06/03/09

With or without using Jundallah for its own Iran-destabilizing agenda, Washington’s ‘other’ war is about to hit Balochistan in Pakistan full speed ahead. By mid-summer, the US’s Afghan surge in troops will be in position. A new American mega-base in Helmand province’s ‘desert of death’ will be operational. Assassination teams, drone attacks and Hellfire missiles will boil this tense tri-border area. Shadowplay rules...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KF04Df04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Main Result of the "War on Terror"


By Gary Leupp

The interests of U.S. imperialism in this case, in the form of regime change in Afghanistan, and the way it was done, have antagonized much of the Pakistani population.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22735.htm



In Pakistan, an Exodus that is Beyond Biblical

By Andrew Buncombe

Locals sell all they have to help millions displaced by battles with the Taliban.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22740.htm



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Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Human Rights Watch says the military must lift its curfew of the area, which has been in place for a full week, and airdrop essential food, water and medicine to the 200,000 residents trapped there.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200952682026492224.html


From Information Clearing House



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David Kilcullen, who was the chief counter-terrorism adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State, has said that the programme should be scrapped. "Since 2006 we've killed 14 senior al-Qaeda leaders using drone strikes; in the same time period we've killed 700 Pakistani civilians in the same area. The drone strikes are highly unpopular." he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6345944.ece



CIA's war in Pakistan

Along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the US has deployed some of the most sophisticated killing machines ever created.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\05\23\story_23-5-2009_pg7_14


From Information Clearing House



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Abdul Malik Mujahid, Truthout: "During the last thirty years of wars in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians have had one safe place to escape to: Pakistan. They fled the Soviet invasion. They fled civil wars. They fled US bombing. Pakistan took care of millions of these Afghan refugees. Now that safe haven with its lush green valleys is burning with bombs."


http://www.truthout.org/052409Y?n



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CNN: "Nearly a half-billion dollars in 'urgent contributions' is needed, the United Nations said Friday, to aid displaced Pakistanis whose numbers are nearing 2 million."

http://www.truthout.org/052209S?n