[Peace-discuss] Bush-Obama terrorism in AfPak

[Brussel Morton K.]

What is also vile is the subject title of this piece, as it equates  
Bush with Obama.  The equation of Bush with Obama is characteristic  
of Estabrook commentaries.
--mkb



On Oct 12, 2008, at 6:13 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> 	Missile strike reported in Pakistan
>
> At least five people have been killed in a missile attack by  
> suspected US drones in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on  
> the Afghan border, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.
>
> The AFP news agency quoted Pakistani security officials as saying  
> that the missiles hit a compound, belonging to a Taliban member,  
> late on Saturday.
>
> The US is suspected in at least 11 missile strikes on the Pakistan  
> side of the Afghan border since mid-August, killing more than 100  
> people, most of them alleged fighters, according to an Associated  
> Press (AP) count based on figures provided by Pakistan intelligence  
> officials.
>
> "Two missiles struck a compound just outside Miranshah," a security  
> official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
>
> The targeted compound was the residence of Taliban member Omar  
> Daraz, the official said.
>
> There was no immediate confirmation of the strike from the  
> Pakistani military or from US-led forces in Afghanistan.
>
> A similar suspected US missile strike on a house in the same  
> district on Thursday killed nine people including six Arab  
> fighters, according to security officials.
>
> Orakzai burials
>
> Elsewhere in Pakistan, mourners on Saturday buried victims of a  
> suicide bombing near the border that targeted anti-Taliban  
> tribesmen moving to evict fighters from their region.
>
> Asghar Khan, a government official, told AP that authorities had  
> tallied at least 34 bodies, but that as many as 25 other bodies may  
> have been taken away by relatives in Orakzai, one of Pakistan's  
> seven semi-autonomous tribal regions.
>
> Some media reports put the death tally from the Friday attack much  
> higher.
>
> One unconfirmed TV report late on Saturday said 113 people died in  
> the bombing.
>
> 'Hideouts' destroyed
>
> A security official said that Friday's attack occurred a day after  
> tribesmen had targeted two hideouts belonging to pro-Taliban groups  
> operating in the area.
>
> It also came a day after four tribal elders in Bajaur, a tribal  
> region north of Orakzai, were abducted and beheaded after attending  
> another pro-government meeting, officials said.
>
> "People will tell you that Pakistan is already in a state of war.  
> Every day there are suicide bombings," Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder,  
> reporting from the North West Frontier province, said.
>
> "The violence is escalating at a time that the national assembly is  
> not able to come to grips with the situation."
>
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