Reply #13: What Absolute BULLCRAP !! You've linked to the SAME one story six times, using a different

[K Gardner]

made-up headline, making it look (to those who don't take the time to follow the damned links) that there have been multiple attacks in the TRIBAL REGION WHERE it clearly says they're after Al-Qaeda ! If you'd even bothered to READ the SHORT article you linked SIX times, you would have found the answers to every single question you asked. So what really was the point of this post with its "I WANT OBAMA TO EXPLAIN" Outrage Headline and Faked Duplicate Links??

This is the kind of shit that REALLY pisses me off. If you have a legitimate question about why the U.S. is targeting the TALIBAN in the mountains of Afghanistan/Pakistan, then ask THAT in an intelligent and reasoned way - promote a discussion which would enlighten the DU Community instead of using an inflammatory, demanding, Obama-slamming headline.

From the ARTICLE:

The region has seen a sharp spike in the number of aerial attacks by unmanned drones on what are believed to be Taliban targets. The United States has the only military with drones operating in the area.

In 2008, there were 30 suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan, based on a CNN count.


On New Year's Day, two top al Qaeda terrorists were killed by a U.S. missile strike against a building in northern Pakistan, according to two senior U.S. officials.

The men, both Kenyans, were on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, one of the officials said, and were believed to have been responsible for the September suicide bombing at an Islamabad hotel.