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U.S. missile strike kills 8 in Pakistan
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by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | November 20, 2009 at 04:40 am
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PUSH-BUTTON WAR: Critics slam use of drones to kill militants
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A US missile strike killed eight Islamist militants were killed by a US unmanned missile strike this morning in northwest Pakistan. The attack followed a bomb blast that killed three policemen.
The U.S. has carried out 46 attacks with its drones in northwest Pakistan as US Forces face an intensified Taliban insurgency.
Eight Islamist militants were killed in a U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said, after three policemen were killed in a bomb blast.
The attack came shortly before the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which oversees the drone strikes, met government leaders in Islamabad for talks that covered U.S. strategy in neighboring Afghanistan.
The United States has carried out 46 attacks with its pilotless, missile-firing aircraft in northwest Pakistan this year as its forces in Afghanistan have faced an intensifying Taliban insurgency.
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at 07:04 on November 20th, 2009
This is actually very important factor if there are more of these attacks it could indicate a lets get bin laden and leave the Taliban to the Afghanistan and Pakistan forces? I really got to think
at 07:07 on November 20th, 2009
Drone attacks aren't new. To me it signifies closer cooperation with the Pakistan government. If you get them there u won.t have to worry about them interfering in Afghanistan
at 12:39 on November 20th, 2009
Amen to that, cowboy (am i allowed to use that language here?).
Put the fear in them.
at 10:22 on January 1st, 2010
But see the story on the Pakistani Taliban taking credit for the attack on the CIA. One thing is clear, the drone attacks are going to increase.
at 10:46 on January 1st, 2010
The terrorists only have to succeed once. The drones have to find them and that can only be done through good intelligence.