Drone Attacks

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• Drone attacks conspiracy to destabilize country: PML-N

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 463
  ISLAMABAD: Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat said US drone attacks are conspiracy to seek instability of Pakistan. PML-N spokesman Siddiq Al Farooq said in a seminar held here on Thursday, PPP should respond in a proper manner to allegations against it government instead of passing statement prominent journalists of Jang Group.
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• Marjorie Cohn: Obama’s Af-Pak War is Illegal

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  by Marjorie Cohn, CommonDreams.org , Dec 21, 2009 President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war. In 1945, in ...
  3 days ago

• Marjorie Cohn: Obama’s Af-Pak War is Illegal

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  by Marjorie Cohn, CommonDreams.org , Dec 21, 2009 President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war. In 1945, ...
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• Obama’s Preferred Killing Machines: Drones, drones, and more drone attacks

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 460
  President Obama and his hawks are planning to increase the number of drone attacks. Since the new administration has taken office, the campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, which ironically began during the final months of the Bush administration, has intensified significantly. The US establishment media’s ...
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• A veritable squadron of predator drones …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 495
  A veritable squadron of predator drones attacked two compounds in the Ambarshaga area of the North Waziristan tribal region today, killing 15 people, seven of whom were identified as foreign militants. Five drones fired 10 missiles. The massing of drones implies the US suspected a high-value target was present. a
  1 week ago

• International Law: The First Casualty of the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  A comprehensive legal analysis of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan Uruknet.com , Dec 14, 2009 By Max Kantar ABSTRACT. This report utilizes well-established principles of both treaty and customary international law as a measuring stick for attempting to determine the legal and moral ...
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• International Law: The First Casualty of the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  A comprehensive legal analysis of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan Uruknet.com , Dec 14, 2009 By Max Kantar ABSTRACT. This report utilizes well-established principles of both treaty and customary international law as a measuring stick for attempting to determine the legal and moral ...
  1 week ago

• ‘The end of the road’ for the US-Pakis…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 495
  ‘The end of the road’ for the US-Pakistan cooperation. A senior Pakistani official told Los Angeles Times if the US went ahead with its plan to launch drone strikes in Quetta then it would be ‘the end of the road’ for the US-Pakistan cooperation in the fight against extremist groups. ‘We are not a ...
  1 week ago

• Refreshing honesty from the Pakistani mi…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 495
  Refreshing honesty from the Pakistani military. Demands by the United States for Pakistan to crack down on the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan, Siraj Haqqani, whose fighters pose the biggest threat to American forces, have been rebuffed by the Pakistani military, according to Pakistani military officials ...
  1 week ago

• Obama’s ‘Ally’ Pakistan Ignores Requests Regarding Taliban

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 128
  In an effort to try and gain greater control over Afghanistan after a United States withdrawal, the Pakistani military are ignoring repeated requests by the Obama Administration to crack-down on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Essentially, in an effort to gain regional power and out-maneuever India, the Pakistani ...
  1 week ago

• Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war”

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Bill Van Auken, wsws.org , Dec 13, 2009 Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration. ...
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• Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war”

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  Bill Van Auken, wsws.org , Dec 13, 2009 Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration. ...
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• The New York Times – Getting Pakistan Wrong

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 434
  By Wajiha Ahmed      Huffington Post, December 11, 2009In her December 5, 2009 New York Times article, reporter Sabrina Tavernise looks to history to explain why many Pakistanis are so critical of America. Unfortunately, Tavernise looks to the wrong history, focusing on Pakistan’s trauma after the partition ...
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• Obama balks at using drones in populated…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 495
  Obama balks at using drones in populated areas in Quetta where Afghan taliban leaders are located, in spite of US national security and counterterrorism officials who are encouraging it. a
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• Two Arabs Killed In North Waziristan Drone Strike

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 528
  Two Arab nationals were killed in a missile strike on a car by US drones in Spalga village in North Waziristan on Tuesday morning. An interesting aspect of this story is the number of other drones that were reported flying in the area at the time.  This has raised speculation that the men in the [...] This story ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Secret US War In Pakistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By Jeremy Scahill , ZNe t, Dec 7, 2009 Source: The Nation Jeremy Scahill’s ZSpace Page At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret ...
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• Predator drones coming to Baluchistan. …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 495
  Predator drones coming to Baluchistan. The White House has authorized expanding the CIA’s Predator Drone program in Pakistan, with US officials now eager to start attacking targets in Baluchistan province . Pakistani government objects. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said there were limits to Pakistani ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama’s Speech: ‘Servility’ Toward U.S. Has its Limits – The Nation, Pakistan

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 672
  From what can be gleaned from editorials coming out of Pakistan today, President Obama’s long-awaited speech on his Afghanistan strategy has been anything but well received. Chief among Islamabad’s concerns is that more U.S. troops in Afghanistan mean more militants will flee into Pakistan – particularly from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Has The USA Forgotten Peace

  
  Moral Philosophy and Current Events — Authority: 124
  By Gordon Duff December 01, 2009 "Veterans Today" -- Tonight, I will listen to the President tell me that it will take years to withdraw from Afghanistan. He will, out of political necessity tell a series of lies. He will lie by omission, failing to tell people that this war, our "good war" was, when the facts are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Troop Surge in Afghanistan: Still No Match to Taliban’s Irregular Warfare

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  General McChrystal does not get his ‘40,000 new troops in order to hold the “major” cities and secure the population from the Taliban.’ He only gets a part of it. Obama did very recently order for additional troops to Afghanistan, but only about 75 percent of McChrystal’s request. McChrystal’s plan, ...
  3 weeks ago

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