Despite having declared war on no one — not al-Qaeda, not the Taliban, no one — the United States fired four missiles from a drone Thursday killing 16 “suspected militants.”
Although stories relating the event will not say it, “suspected militant” is a post-9/11 euphemism for someone not charged with any crime, not identified as an enemy combatant, but killed by our government anyway.
According to Pakistani news outlet Dawn.com, the Buland Khel area of the Orakzai agency in Pakistan was the site of the attack on October 11, the 39th drone attack in Pakistan this year.
“The attack was aimed at the compound of Maulana Shakirullah, who is the commander of the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),” officials said according to the Dawn.com report.
The author of the Dawn.com article explains the relationship between the group targeted by President Obama and the known coterie of alleged terrorists:
The militant wing run by Shakirullah has been linked with the Haqqani network and Al-Qaeda. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur group has been repeatedly accused by the US for being involved in cross-border attacks into Afghanistan.
This was the second drone attack in Orakzai agency. The first came in 2009 in the Khadezai area of Mamozai in Upper Orakzai agency, in which 11 militants affiliated to TTP’s Hakimullah group were killed.
As has become standard operating procedure for these drone strikes, the unmanned vehicles were reportedly still buzzing over the site of the attack, keeping anyone from approaching the rubble and retrieving the bodies.
Read More at thenewamerican.com . By Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
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Does anyone believe that al-Qaeda will simply mount their camels and ride off into the desert, when our government is both Judge Jury and executioner? How is it that our intelligence is so good that we can pinpoint to exact location of the suspected militants so we can launch our Hell-Fire missiles at them yet not know what really happened in Benghazi?
Wake up folks!
They know what happened. They’re just disappointed that WE do, too.
Find ‘em, fix ‘em and KILL ‘em, as many as possible and as soon as possible. Keep them on the run looking over their shoulder. Give them no peace or rest. This is what we will have to keep doing for the foreseeable future. There is no shortage of radical Islamo-Nazis whose only purpose for living is to kill us in an act of unprovoked aggression before we do it to them in self defense.