World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/20-12

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Pakistan: US drone attack kills four

CRI English [Chinese state media]

07/21/11

At least four people were killed Wednesday when a U.S. drone targeted the North Waziristan tribal area in northwest Pakistan, local sources said. The pilotless aircraft fired two missiles at a house in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan, they said...

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/07/21/197s649600.htm



They also hate us for our hypocrisy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/20/11

The front page of today s New York Times details another instance of the rank hypocrisy that underlies U.S. foreign policy. According to the article, U.S. officials are hopping mad at their partner and ally, the Pakistani government, for trying to tilt U.S. foreign policy in favor of Pakistan s position in its longtime dispute with India over Kashmir. The feds have indicted two U.S. citizens over the matter...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-07-20.asp



Hillary cracks the whip

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

07/21/11

Who is Hillary Clinton to pronounce on the legitimacy of any foreign government? Victoria Nuland s condemnation of Syria cites 'beating, imprisoning, torturing, and slaughtering,' but doesn t Washington do all of that and more? Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA secret prisons, and Predator drone strikes surely tell the tale. No other government claims that it has the right to kill its own citizens anywhere in the world based on secret evidence...

http://tinyurl.com/4475spg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US claims on drone strikes 'untrue'

Claims by a senior Obama administration official that there hasn t been a single collateral (civilian) death in drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2010 were found to be untrue following a detailed investigation by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ).

http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=96949&heading=Pakistan



London exhibition shows horrors of US drone attacks on Pakistan

Pakistani human rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar condemned the unmanned aircraft firing missiles in the North Waziristan region, which have resulted in more than 2,200 deaths, mostly innocent civilians.

http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30487378


From Information Clearing House



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