Pakistan say 5 killed by U.S. Predator fired missiles in tribal area

[Bangkoktraveler]

Five people were killed and three were wounded when a United States Predator drone fired missiles into a house in the restive South Waziristan tribal region, local residents said Wednesday.

 

The attack came as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, met with Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in an effort to ease tensions over an American incursion into the tribal areas and a rising number of drone strikes.

 

Residents of the village of Baghar Cheena, who took the wounded to a hospital in the regional center of Wana, said drones had fired four missiles. Two hit a house, and two others landed in the mountains, they said. The attack occurred in the evening, as the villagers were breaking the Ramadan fast, they said.

 

Local militants immediately cordoned off the area, and retrieved and moved the bodies to an undisclosed location. Local residents said none of the wounded were from the area, but came from the Punjab.

 

A senior security official confirmed the missile attack but said that the identities of those killed were yet to be established. A Pakistani military spokesman, who identified himself as Murad, said an investigation was under way. An intelligence source said the attack took place around 7 p.m. local time, less than three miles from the Afghan border. It killed 13 militants, mostly from Punjab, and wounded at least 9, the source said.

In his account, five missiles were fired, two of them hitting a compound and the rest falling in the nearby mountains. The target may have been a group of militants based in Wana who seemed poised to cross into Afghanistan for an attack against NATO forces, the official said.

 

Thousands of Wazirs from the area vowed during a meeting on Wednesday to raise a volunteer army to make incursions into Afghanistan against NATO forces if the Americans again carried out a raid inside Pakistan, local residents said.

 

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[rogueyam]

Ho, hum.

[Neo]

This is very ominous sign of things to come. I can envision over time these drones will be circling over us in every city of every country of the world because they will be "essential for world peace" and we will be just as helpless not knowing whose hand is on the fire button and why.

 

[Flashermac]

Great thriller plot. Terrorists gain control of the Predator drones and start using them to zap the good guys. It's up to Eddie Murphy to thwart them and save the western world.

 

 

 

 

[Bangkoktraveler]

This is very ominous sign of things to come. I can envision over time these drones will be circling over us in every city of every country of the world because they will be "essential for world peace" and we will be just as helpless not knowing whose hand is on the fire button and why.

 

 

They have been in use in the southwestern part of the USA. When they arm them, especially with missiles that is when the shit will really hit the fan, that is if we still have fans.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Great thriller plot. Terrorists gain control of the Predator drones and start using them to zap the good guys. It's up to Eddie Murphy to thwart them and save the western world.

 

 

 

 

 

First Eddie Murphy flies to Alaska to an out of the way igaloo where he finds inside a secret door that leads down stairs into a control room where the drones are controlled from. He searches passionately for the 18 year old who is flying the missile armed with a several missles.

 

Naaaw, I need more tension and drama in this story. Shit, I got to start over again.