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Suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, 38 killed
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone missile strike on Thursday killed at least 38 suspected militants in a Pakistani tribal region known as a haven for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, Pakistani intelligence officials said. There were conflicting accounts about the target of the attack and those killed in…
US missile strike kills five militants in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A US missile strike targeting a compound killed five militants in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Tuesday, security officials said, updating an earlier toll of four. The strike took place in Landidog village, 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Wana, the main town…
US fires 118 drone bombs at Pakistan, killing just two most-wanted terrorists
WASHINGTON – Over one-hundred drone strikes in Pakistan last year ended up killing a total of 2 terrorists on the US most-wanted list, according to independent estimates. In 2010, the CIA launched a total of 118 drone attacks in Pakistan, each costing more than $1 million, The Washington Post reported.…
US officials: Drone strike kills five ‘militants’ in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A US drone attack late on Sunday killed at least five militants in northwest Pakistan’s lawless South Waziristan tribal district, officials said. The drone strike was the first since a US gunman shot and killed two Pakistanis in the eastern city of Lahore on January 27, triggering…
67% of Pakistani journalists say US drones attacks are acts of terrorism: survey
WASHINGTON – Two out of three Pakistani journalists view United States drone strikes in the region as acts of terrorism, according to a new study conducted by Washington State University and Pakistan’s Lahore University of Management Sciences. Only 27 percent of Pakistani journalists said the US drone attacks did not…
New drone spy cameras fail Air Force test: study
WASHINGTON — A much-touted new camera system for US unmanned aircraft that is supposed to bolster surveillance efforts in Afghanistan has proved ineffective in tests, a US Air Force report concluded. The surveillance system, dubbed Gorgon Stare after the mythical Greek creature whose terrifying gaze turned others to stone, has…
Taliban torch 16 NATO tankers in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – Taliban militants in southwestern Pakistan set ablaze 16 vehicles carrying fuel supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said. The convoy was attacked before dawn outside the town of Dera Murad Jamali, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of restive…
Under the radar: Unmanned Mexican orbiter drone crashes in El Paso
It’s not just the US using drones anymore: it’s Mexico too, and they’re literally crashing in our own backyard. On Tuesday of last week, a small Mexican drone crashed in the El Paso Valley, as far as a half-mile into the United States. Little is known about the crash or…
Top US spy in Pakistan flees after lawsuit reveals identity
Update: Pakistani military intelligence suspected of revealing CIA station chief’s identify Following the revelation on Friday of the abrupt departure of CIA station chief Jonathan Banks from Pakistan, the New York Times is reporting that “some American officials [are] convinced that the officer’s cover was deliberately blown by Pakistan’s military…
Pakistani journalist calls for death penalty for CIA station chief
A Pakistani journalist who says he lost his family in a US drone strike has sued the CIA for $500 million, and is filing a request to keep the CIA’s alleged station chief in Islamabad from leaving the country. “We appeal to the authorities not to let Jonathan Banks escape…
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