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Pakistan: Drone Killings Show Numbers, Not Bodies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/09-1

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America in Pakistan

By Mahboob A. Khawaja

"America has become a killing machine, driven by an ideology in which human life is but a worthless commodity that can be exploited and discarded."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36622.htm



Drone Victims Recount Horror of Follow-Up Strikes Launched Against People Rescuing Wounded

By Kevin Gosztola

"Some people lost their hands," Nabeel said of the second strike. "Others had their heads cut off. Some lost their legs. Human body parts were scattered everywhere on the ground. The bodies were burnt and it was not possible to recognize them."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36619.htm



U.S. Government Tech: Lousy at Health Care, Great at Flying Death Robots

By Will Bunch

The more I pondered the news today, the more I realized that the drone story and the health care story, on the surface completely unrelated, are very much deeply intertwined. It s a tale of priorities, and you have to wonder how those priorities got to be so bass-ackwards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36624.htm



US kills three people in NW Pakistan

A US drone strike targeting a militant compound Thursday killed three insurgents in a northwest Pakistan tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/19615808/



Drone victims give US lawmakers first-hand account of attack

Rafiq Rehman and his two children testify about the day a drone murdered his mother; five lawmakers attend.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/29/congressional-briefingonpakistanidronevictimsdraws5lawmakers.html



Wounds of Waziristan: A Documentry On Drones And Its Victims

The Story of Drones As Told By the People Who Live Under Them.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/wounds-of-waziristan-the-story-of-drones-by-the-people-who-live-under-them-video



US Kills 5 People In Pakistan

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been killed in a drone strike, a high-ranking Taliban official has told the BBC. Four other people were killed in the strike, including two of Mehsud s bodyguards, intelligence sources say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24776363



Pakistani political leader says NATO supply routes will be cut if U.S. drone strikes continue

The chief political leader in Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province threatened Thursday to choke off key NATO supply routes if U.S. drone strikes on Pakistan continue, setting up a potential clash within the country s national government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistani-political-leader-says-nato-supply-routes-will-be-cut-if-us-drone-strikes-continue/2013/10/31/3c0e002e-4260-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html



US Kills 25 people in Pakistan

The head of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan on Friday. "Among the dead, are Hakimullah s personal bodyguard Tariq Mehsud and his driver Abdullah Mehsud, two of his closest people," said one intelligence source, adding at least 25 people were killed in the strike.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Hakimullah-Mehsud-Pakistan-Taliban-chief-killed-in-US-drone-attack-Report/articleshow/25075392.cms



Pakistan accuses US of 'scuttling' Taliban talks with drone strike, summons ambassador

"Brick by brick in the last seven weeks we tried to evolve a process by which we could bring peace to Pakistan and what have you (the US) done?" Pakistan s Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar, Ali Khan said. "You have scuttled it".

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-taliban-new-chief-131/



Pakistan reviews US relationship over Taliban drone kill

The Pakistani government is holding a high-level meeting to review its ties with the US. The country s top officials were infuriated with the US drone assassination of a Taliban commander, who was about to engage in talks with Islamabad.

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-taliban-us-review-155/



President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That He's 'Really Good At Killing People'

This will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner. According to the new book "Double Down," President Barack Obama told his aides that he's "really good at killing people" while discussing drone strikes.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/last-president-obama-reportedly-told-024401509.html



Pakistan: US promised no drone hits during talks

Punjab Chief Minister said that the US officials had assured him that the drone attacks would not be conducted during the process of peace negotiations with the Taliban.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/lahore/04-Nov-2013/us-promised-no-drone-hits-during-talkss-cm



Pak army shows its anti-drone technology

During the "Azm-e-Nau 4 Exercise" at Bahawalpur in Punjab province yesterday, the army air defence demonstrated its anti-drone technology by successfully bringing down a drone by targeting it with the 35mm Oerlikon guns, 'The News' daily said.

http://www.thestatesman.net/news/23391-pak-army-shows-its-anti-drone-technology.html



Drone Strike Served CIA Revenge, Blocked Pakistan s Strategy

By Gareth Porter

The back story of the episode is how President Barack Obama supported the parochial interests of the CIA in the drone war over the Pakistani government s effort to try a new political approach to that country s terrorism crisis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36787.htm



8 killed in rare drone strike outside Pakistan s tribal areas

At least eight persons, including three alledged Haqqani network commanders, were killed on Thursday in a rare US drone strike outside Pakistan s tribal belt, just a day after a top official said the US had agreed to halt such attacks during negotiations with militants.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-8-killed-in-rare-drone-strike-outside-pakistan-s-tribal-areas-1922693



U.S. drone strike kills 8 at religious school in Pakistan

At least eight students at a madrassa, or Islamic religious school, located in the northwestern Pakistani district of Hangu, died in an attack staged early Thursday by a U.S. drone, officials told Efe.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=1210415&CategoryId=12395



Pakistani leaders protest US drone attacks

Senior minister of the provincial government Siraj-ul-Haq led a group of provincial ministers and lawmakers who marched to the heavily-guarded US consulate and handed over a protest note to the diplomats, saying that the American drone strikes violate Pakistan s sovereignty and kill innocent people, Xinhua reported.

http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/pakistani-leaders-protest-us-drone-attacks-15032.html



Pakistan blows cover of suspected CIA chief after drone strike

One of Pakistan s major political parties has published the name of what it believes to be the CIA s chief operative in Islamabad after a US drone strike killed five people last week. The group demanded on Wednesday that the spy chief face murder charges.

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-drone-cia-expose-398/



Three suspected militants killed in North Waziristan drone attack

At least three people were reported killed when two missiles were fired by a US drone on a compound in Angar Kalli area near Miramshah Tehsil in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday night, intelligence and local sources told Dawn.com.

http://dawn.com/news/1059365



Pakistan: Altaf urges Imran to order shooting down of US drones

Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said if Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan was brave enough, he should order shooting down US drones, instead of creating troubles for people by blocking Nato supplies.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-128521-Altaf-urges-Imran-to-order-shooting-down-of-US-drones



Anti-Drone Blockade In Pakistan Forces Halt To US Military Shipments

Protesters vow to continue blockade until US ceases deadly drone strikes in that country.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/anti-drone-blockade-pakistan-forces-halt-us-military-shipments/174423/



Life After a Drone Strike

No foreign journalist travels to the most-bombed region of Pakistan to separate dead mother from militant; not even other Pakistanis can travel there without first getting special approval from the government. And so the news that gets out is, "Danger!"; a 20- second story on CNN about "bad people dying over there."

http://www.lobelog.com/life-after-a-drone-strike/



Pakistan unanimously passes resolution against US drone strikes

The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution against US drone strikes in Pakistan, calling them a violation of "the charter of the United Nations, international laws and humanitarian norms."

http://www.dawn.com/news/1061704/na-unanimously-passes-resolution-against-us-drone-strikes



Drone strike in Pak-Afghan border kills 5 "suspected" militants

A suspected United States drone strike targeting a boat in the waters of the Kabul river on Saturday near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has killed five people, said media reports.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2350356&Language=en



US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills 3 Militants

"We briefly stopped some of the NATO trucks this morning, but now we are just holding a peaceful rally against the drone attacks," said Abdul Wali Shakir, a spokesman for the Jamaat-e-Islami party, which also attended the rally, demanding an end to the drone strikes.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/12/26/us-drone-strike-in-pakistan-kills-3-militants.html



Pakistan denounces drone attack

Pakistan has strongly condemned the drone attack carried out in North Waziristan on Wednesday-Thursday night and demanded these be stopped.

http://dailymailnews.com/2013/12/26/pakistan-denounces-drone-attack-in-nwa/



US drone attack in Pakistan killed German *security contact*

A German national died in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a report revealed on Monday. The 27-year-old convert to Islam claimed to have close links with German authorities and even to be in contact with security officials.

http://rt.com/news/german-us-drone-strike-525/



Leaked official document records 330 drone attacks in Pakistan

Although the document records civilian casualties in the early years, from 2009 these almost disappear. Even well-documented cases of civilian deaths are omitted.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/01/29/leaked-official-document-records-330-drone-strikes-in-pakistan/


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan Drone Story Ignored Military Opposition to Strikes

Gareth Porter, IPS News: While most mainstream news media outlets picked up The Washington Post story about a secret agreement under which Pakistani officials have long been privately supporting the US drone war in the country, it ignored the fact that the Pakistani military leadership had turned decisively against the drone war years ago.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19662-pakistan-drone-story-ignored-military-opposition-to-strikes



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