Posts tagged ‘drone attacks’

A  very recent US drone attack has killed at least six militants in a remote Pakistani tribal town near the Afghan border as local people celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, security officials said. Drone attacks are very unpopular in Pakistan but they are neccesary for the US because they are so effective. The Pakistanis [...]

  The Obama administration’s increasing use of unmanned drone strikes to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world, according to a Pew Research Center survey on the U.S. image abroad. In 17 out of 21 countries surveyed, more than half of the people disapproved of US drone attacks targeting extremist leaders and groups [...]

Leave it Alone Karzai

June 18th, 2012

Afghan President Hamid Karzai took a defiant stand on Tuesday against NATO on airstrikes, saying the military coalition can no longer fire on homes from aircraft in any circumstance  even in defense of Afghan and foreign forces. Karzai said that’s what he and the U.S.-led coalition agreed following last week’s airstrike in eastern Afghanistan’s Logar [...]

       A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan early Friday morning, killing four militants in an attack that comes as Pakistani officials have stepped up their calls for the strikes to end, intelligence officials said. The attack could complicate U.S. efforts to get Pakistan to reopen its [...]

A Pakistani parliamentary commission demanded Tuesday an end to American drone attacks inside the country and an apology for deadly U.S. airstrikes in November as part of proposed new terms in the country’s troubled relations with the United States. Parliament’s demands could complicate efforts to rebuild the relationship, but the commission didn’t say the supply [...]

According to Lt General Douglas Lute more drone attacks should be conducted in Pakistan. I agree with his philisophy one hundred per cent. The time in the war on terror is very critical for the US. First of all I consider drones to be the single greatest factor in the US victory in this war. [...]

Every sports team has what is called it’s bread and butter play. That is the paly that it can count on to score points every time it is used or gain yards. It seems that the drone is proving to be our bread and butter weapon system in this war. The drone is well suited [...]