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US spy plane attack kills 21 in NWA
 


July 06, 2012 - Updated 2210 PKT
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MIRANSHAH: A US drone attack on a militant compound in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) killed 21 insurgents late Friday, security officials said.

 

The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles on the compound in Datta Khel village, some 35 kilometres (22 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of NWA tribal district, near the Afghan border, they said.

 

"The US drone fired two missiles. At least nine militants have been killed and three injured,” a senior security official based in Peshawar told AFP.

 

Two security officials in Miranshah confirmed the strike.

 

Datta Khel is considered a stronghold of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a Taliban commander who is accused of sending fighters across the border to fight NATO troops in Afghanistan.

 

A similar attack in the region on Sunday killed six militants.
 
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MUBARKA, MUBARKA, Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister & the Govt of Pakistan for the successful ‘Deal’ with America. You opened the NATO Supply Line and in REWARD, they the, American plane attack kill 21 in NWA. What a ‘DEAL’, Zardari successfully made with America, must be against much, much more than the $.60 millions. WAW.

Gorg. Rehman
Pakistan
Pakistan is governed by members of elite families including Buttos and Hina Rabbani Khar. These families were installed by the British Raj and still work for their masters. Allowing supplies to go through sends a lot of money direct to their family bank accounts. But in the process destabilises Pakistan. These are simple model airplanes powered by a motor bike engine. No other country in the world allows its citizens to be murdered in cold blood without trial.

john
United Kingdom
OUr govt will probably not feel least bit of shame.

zardari
Afghanistan
My sympathies to the victims' families. Zardari got no apology in the direct sense of the word. What he got was a diluted apology saying "deepest regrets." What he also got was "mistakes by both sides." This is what the Americans think of and treat Pakistanis, like dirt and mendicants. Unless we do not stand economically on our feet the world will treat us as scroungers. Salams

N Habib
Pakistan
My sympathies to the victims' families. Zardari got no apology in the direct sense of the word. What he got was a diluted apology saying "deepest regrets." What he also got was "mistakes by both sides." This is what the Americans think of and treat Pakistanis, like dirt and mendicants. Unless we do not stand economically on our feet the world will treat us as scroungers. Salams

N Habib
Pakistan
When will it be the time that the US drone strikes will stop. Our people need education and guidance, not the bullets and bombs. We need a sustainable long term change in Pakistan through education, training, faith and guidance under Holy Quran and Sunnah.

Sohail
Netherlands
Shame to our corrupt/criminal parliament including pml-n, mqm, anp & jui-f. They all are responsible for the killings of these innocents and none of the parliament members speaks against injustice being done through barbaric act of drones. Shame to all of the above. For sure, Allah (swt) will take all of above into a/c for His innocent people being killed if not in this world but in hereafter...

tariq
Pakistan
The American way of celebrating the re-opening of NATO supply route?

Yariv
Israel
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