Posted on 06/23/2009 11:20:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A U.S. drone attacked militants in Pakistan in Tuesday, killing at least 45 of them, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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Golly I hope the drone read them their Miranda rights before hand.
File photo shows a US "Predator" drone. A suspected US missile strike, believed to have been fired by a US drone, has hit northwest Pakistan's tribal South Waziristan region, where security forces are poised for an attack on a Taliban commander, officials have said. (AFP/File/Joel Saget)
45 dead terrorist! Nice!
*GASP* ! ! ! ! ! Why is it okay to turn them into pink mist with a missile but not waterboard them?
Time to reload. There are going to be 45 more funerals.
What is the missile capacity of those? I thought they could only carry one or two right now. Am I mistaken? By the way, excellent shooting!
AFP says only 17.. oh well.
Suspected US missile strikes kill 17 in Pakistan: officials
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090623/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanusunrestmissile_20090623171628
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – At least 17 people were killed Tuesday when suspected US missile strikes hit a Taliban base in Pakistan’s northwest, pounding militants gathering for funeral prayers, officials said.
The first reported strike by an unmanned drone aircraft hit near Makeen village, 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan and a stronghold of Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
“A missile attack by a suspected US drone took place in rugged mountainous terrain in Neej Narai in South Waziristan,” said a Pakistani security official who did not want to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
He said the first drone fired three missiles Tuesday morning, adding that “six militants were killed and seven others wounded in the attack.”
Another security official confirmed the incident and casualties, saying that the missiles destroyed a compound, a bunker and two vehicles of the Taliban in the semi-autonomous tribal belt along the Afghan border.
As militants gathered for funeral rites for the dead later in the day, another unmanned drone aircraft dropped three more missiles, officials said.
Hope it wasn’t one of those notorious wedding receptions.
Obama kills everyone at a funeral. How many more innocent people must die for Obama’s arrogance?
(Weird that we have not heard anything from Code Pink, NYT, MSNBC, etc... like this)
Finally Obama was able to rewire the drones to target only militants instead of the previous problem of only hitting wedding parties.
Peek a BOOM
LOL. Like it!
Bee-YOOT-iful!!!
45 sand monkeys with one drone?....How big a bomb can they carry?
“What is the missile capacity of those? I thought they could only carry one or two right now. Am I mistaken? By the way, excellent shooting!”
Not a military man but SandRat might know.
looks like multiple hits from multiple drones in the air..
a turkey shoot..
Gotta love that! Guess the Commander in charge says “Screw their funerals, these are just too d@mn target rich!”
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