Missiles fired from US drones Tuesday killed at least six militants in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, security officials said.
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Unfortunately such senseless killing doesn't even count as news anymore. Millions of people of Pakistan's tribal belt can be classified as militants because they all carry guns. If there were no 'high value' target then these were just ordinary citizens reclassified as militants for the sake of US and Pakistan military. The news should have read "we killed six people, we don't know who they were but since they were in the tribal area they must be militants."
Why is the killing of an innocent brother of a warlord being tauted as a great success? The phrase 'al-Qaeda linked' is used to scare us into approving these extrajudicial killings.
March 24, 2010 @ 4:07 pm