Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Drone Attacks
By Jeremy Scahill
Damn those ungrateful Pakistanis. After U.S. drone attacks killed more than 600 of their people since 2006-most of them civilians-it seems they think they have some right to say they don't want the U.S. flying its "aid" planes to Swat and other "tribal areas.
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Here is the best part of the U.S. effort:
In an effort to highlight American concern for the refugees, Mr. Holbrooke visited the camps in June, sitting on the floor of a sweltering tent and talking to people about their plight. “President Obama has sent us to see how we can help you,” he said.
Poor Dick Holbrooke, having to sit in that sweaty tent. I really hope someone at that meeting said, “Obama can help us by stopping his regular, deadly bombings.” The Times claims that what came out of the meeting “was an effort to send Pakistani-American female doctors to assist women in the camps, who according to their cultural traditions must be treated by women.”
Meanwhile, a Pakistani human rights lawyer filed a petition at the country’s Supreme Court asking it to order the Pakistani government to undertake a “comprehensive report” on U.S. drone attacks against the country. “I have filed the petition in the Supreme Court as a protest to let the world know about the sentiments of the people of Pakistan on consecutive drone attacks which are killing scores of people,” said the attorney, M. Tariq Asad.
According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn:
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Pakistan: 28 "fighters" killed in Khyber clashes:
"At least 28 militants of Lashkar-e-Islam were killed in shelling by helicopter gunships," Major Fazal Khan, a spokesman for the paramilitary unit, said on Thursday.-
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Extrajudicial Killing : Pakistan:
At least 17 killed in 'US attack: U.S. missiles struck a "training facility" operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant communication center Friday, killing 17 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said.-
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At least six dead in Pakistan bus attack:
At least six people were killed and more than 15 injured on Thursday when a suspected Taliban suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a government bus in Rawalpindi, the military's garrison city just outside Islamabad.-
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Suicide blast hits Pakistani city:
At least one person has been killed after a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a bus carrying workers from a nuclear facility in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, police say.-
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Taliban claims downing Pakistan Army helicopter:
A spokesman for the Islamic militants told Sama television that the Taliban had also captured the pilot of the helicopter gunship.-
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