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First strike: 17 dead as Obama aims missiles at Pakistan-Afghanistan Good Job Bossman!!!

source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/01/23/2009-01-23_first_strike_17_dead_as_obama...

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WASHINGTON - U.S. Predator drones hit two suspected AlQaeda dens in Pakistan with Hellfire missiles Friday - the first cross-border strikes from Afghanistan on President Obama's watch.

Pakistani officials said at least 15 people were killed, including three children and four civilians. The attacks signaled Obama had given the green light to the CIA and the military to continue former President Bush's policy of targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban safe havens in Pakistan.

New White House press secretary Robert Gibbs repeatedly declined to say whether Obama had personally signed off on the missile attacks that hit two villages in Pakistan's lawless northwest frontier zone. "I'm not going to speak about these matters," Gibbs said.

But U.S. intelligence sources told the Daily News neither the military nor the CIA was authorized to carry out such attacks without presidential approval.

In one of the strikes, "A militant den was successfully destroyed. At least five foreign Al Qaeda militants were killed," a Pakistani official told Agence France-Presse.

During the campaign, Obama warned that he would authorize cross-border operations to go after Osama Bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, with or without the approval of Pakistan, which complained about the missile strikes.

"It helps us in no way conducting our operations" against Islamic militants, Pakistani Army Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas told CNN.

"We face much more difficulty as a result of drone strikes, and we have conveyed our position on that" to the U.S., Abbas said.

Pakistan routinely protests the air strikes as violations of sovereignty, but U.S. sources have suggested that Pakistan secretly supports the tactic to hit militants that also threaten the central government.

The U.S. has carried out more than 30 air strikes on targets in Pakistan since last July, killing more than 260 people.

Among those killed were top operatives planning attacks against the West, sources told The News. The list included:

* Khalid Habib, a veteran combat leader and operations chief involved in plots to attack the West. He was deputy to AlQaeda No. 3, Shaikh Sa'id al-Masri.
* Rashid Rauf, the mastermind of the 2006 British airliner plot.
* Abu Khabab al-Masri, Al Qaeda's most seasoned explosives expert and trainer, who headed its chemical and biological weapons efforts.
* Abdallah Azzam, also a top aide to Shaikh Sa'id al-Masri.
* Abu al-Hassan al-Rimi, who led cross-border operations against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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36 comments // First strike: 17 dead as Obama aims missiles at Pakistan-Afghanistan Good Job Bossman!!!

  • gaiusfurius
  • TonyDukes
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      TonyDukes  

    • I speak out of some more knowledge than most of you that will post, this is similar to the last drone that took out one of our most hunted terrorist and this type of "QRF" was already in place and not contigent upon an Obama plan or discovery. (check my profile)

      FYI, the about the only ball that Obama did not attend it the one honoring CMH and other highly decorated vets, est. by DD Eisehower in 1953.

      As an American I will do my best to support Obama like Bush, until I have factual evidence not to. I think it is in our best interest to try and stick together at this critical time.

      I do not post unless I have info, experience or education regarding the subject, please do the same if you care to respond to me or post.

      Enjoy your day and know, to quote Geo. Orwell, "you will sleep peacefully in your bed tonight, only because rough men stand willing to do violence in your behalf.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
  • pjacobs51
  • gaiusfurius
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      gaiusfurius  
    • gaiusfurius:

      ??? Maybe reading a little might enlighten you. Once Iraq was the most progressive nation in the Middle East Saddams rule took everything from the people, money, freedom, elections, art, safety, freedom of religion, sexual rights. All the things we take for granted as Americans. If you said something bad about Saddam and your neighbor heard it, you had to worry that you might be killed, your daughter might be raped , tortured, and killed in a horrible way. In many ways Saddam makes Adolf Hitler look like Mary who had the little lamb. The viciousness cant be illustrated on text. Artic Spirit has some videos which explain some of it. But they were lost as a people. Now politicians feel safe enough to give stump speeches without body guards. It still has a way to go, but George W. Bush deserves a noble peace prize for Iraq.

    • 3 years ago
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  

    • There we go again, neocongo deciding what ALL republicans would do, "dance in the blood". That is such an insult. No one is happy about war or crimes for the most part but its so easy to lump us all together. WRONG.

      As for unimatrixs' statement:

      Nothing wrong with Obama nailing the bad guys. Bush should have been doing this instead of dicking around in Iraq.

      Bush did that and it was under control, schools were built, people were playing music, great headway was made. But, dicking around in Iraq was what the people of Iraq wanted. To have a free country and be released from the Dictator opressing/gassing anyone who pissed him off. Be it woman or child.

      It is really funny to see the Bush haters send KUDOs to Obama for doing some of the exact same things. Hypocrits all the way.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
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      gaiusfurius  

    • Obama sent two clear messages with these air strikes. 1 the CIA is really the commander and chief. 2 sorry Lefties, but thanks for the votes.

    • 3 years ago
  • neocongo
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      neocongo  
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    • Military force is, as a last resort, sometimes a necessary thing. But man, you repubs would dance in the blood if you could.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
  • VitaminStolz
  • jillsunshine
  • gaiusfurius
  • clayjj05
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      clayjj05 [removed]  

    • IF Bush would have done this the day before he left office. You dumb asses would be calling for warcrimes... LOL take a look at the current hippocracy. I fucking love it.

    • 3 years ago
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  
    • clayjj05:

      oh yes. you nailed it. I am so sick of the B. Haters. Now they will soon eat those words "YES WE CAN bomb the shit out of terrorists". Get the impeachment papers ready! Its going to get dicey.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
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      gaiusfurius  
    • clayjj05:

      I spent last night looking at 9/11 stuff, you wouldn't believe all the orchestrated lies, and scheming shit out there. It makes the Kennedy conspiracies look like Walter Cronkite.

    • 3 years ago
  • LethanoWun
  • klaycav
  • Micaleth
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      Micaleth  
    • LethanoWun:

      SEEK OUT THERAPY KID.

      It is NOT normal to feel your demise approaching and wish to take everyone down with you.

      That is sadistic.

      GET HELP cause your head is all fu**ed up!

      OR at minimum go smoke a shit ton of cannabis and mellow the hell out.

    • 3 years ago
  • paddock
  • Dave_Rabbitt
  • gaiusfurius
  • petarro
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      petarro  

    • Reality is that Bush nor Obama have it wrong here.

      - It's the stupid pilots and intelligence that have it wrong.
      - It's Pakistan lying about the air strikes results
      or
      - AlQaeda invited a eternal family picnic in which family members will always be victims.

    • 3 years ago
  • cerealforeal
  • cynker
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      cynker  

    • well did you really think the world was going to 'change' obama is a public figurehead just like every other pres. he does not decide what goes on, he is just someone for te public to blame when it goes wrong

    • 3 years ago
  • cerealforeal
  • ejasun
  • gaiusfurius
  • unimatrix0
  • 2hellnwait
  • unimatrix0
  • gaiusfurius
  • cynker
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      cynker  
    • unimatrix0:

      bad guys? bad choice of words, there is no such thing as bad guys , go read your bullshit propaganda, and keep your head down. the 'terrorists' seem to be plentiful don't they.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
  • VitaminStolz
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  • thejesse2011
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