And yet, they still don't like us
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lederhosenSunday Times article:
AN AMERICAN airstrike targeting Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda mastermind, was prompted by “wrong information” and killed Pakistani villagers including five women and five children, according to senior Pakistani officials.
The attack took place in the early hours of Friday, when CIA-operated Predator drones circled the village of Damadola in the Bajaur area in northwest Pakistan before launching four Hellfire missiles at a mud-walled compound. Three houses were razed to the ground and 22 people died. (Sources disagree as to the exact number of missiles fired and people killed - see Wikipedia article for several other links - but they seem to agree on the women and children. Although DNA testing hasn't been completed, reports so far indicate that al-Zawahiri was probably not among those killed.)
Those who've been following closely will recall that we also killed al-Zawahiri in another attack eight days previously, and again back in 2004, although AFAIK he still hasn't been killed quite as many times as Saddam.
AN AMERICAN airstrike targeting Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda mastermind, was prompted by “wrong information” and killed Pakistani villagers including five women and five children, according to senior Pakistani officials.
The attack took place in the early hours of Friday, when CIA-operated Predator drones circled the village of Damadola in the Bajaur area in northwest Pakistan before launching four Hellfire missiles at a mud-walled compound. Three houses were razed to the ground and 22 people died. (Sources disagree as to the exact number of missiles fired and people killed - see Wikipedia article for several other links - but they seem to agree on the women and children. Although DNA testing hasn't been completed, reports so far indicate that al-Zawahiri was probably not among those killed.)
Those who've been following closely will recall that we also killed al-Zawahiri in another attack eight days previously, and again back in 2004, although AFAIK he still hasn't been killed quite as many times as Saddam.
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