A US drone aircraft killed at least 45 Pakistani Taliban militants in south Waziristan yesterday when it fired missiles at the funeral of an insurgent commander killed earlier in the day, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
“Three missiles were fired by drones as people were dispersing after offering funeral prayers for Niaz Wali,” one intelligence official said, referring to a Taliban commander who was one of six militants killed in an earlier drone attack.
The army had no information on the attack on the funeral in the remote area under the control of Baitullah Mehsud, the country’s enemy number one, a military official said.
One local security official, who could not be identified as he was not authorised to speak to media, said that more than 60 had died of whom “half are civilians”. Funerals of Taliban are attended by local villagers, not just militants.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am
WTF!
We can send a unmanned drone to a funeral in Pakistan for an insurgent who got killed that day, and kill 60 with a missle….
But gosh darn it, we just can’t seem to find Bin Laden?
Wake up!
June 24th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Again the miltary is too trigger happy, killing who knows how many innocent ppl among em. Terrorism clear cut.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:09 am
These drones are both effective and scary. When r they going to be unleashed on the american people( martial law), They fly several miles high in the sky and are controlled by some army nerds in a mobile command center somewhere in the nevada desert. They are not interested in Obama I mean osama its all about using these people to test all the latest gadgets on and keeping that opium flowing so the pharmaceuticals companies can run there drugs for profit games how many drugs have opium as a base ingredient codene , oxycontin etc. Its all a mind game, red alert, def con 3, code orange. meanwhile we act like limp dicks concerning north korea, china who i would immediately force to check the koreans and also reverse the trade imbalance or start sinking there cargo ships. thats right whats up is down in this new world order of royal horse s--- we are fed daily.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
All China would have to do to stop NK is shut off their oil and food. The country has neither.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
we gonna f--- you up pakistani/talibani bitches.
zach Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Im 24 and a US Marine Corps vet. Rj the military is not “trigger happy” they do what they have to do over there. Islam is a serious threat to the world and I say we do whatever we can to kill them all.
Misha Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
You are a seriously deranged SICK PUPPY, The jarheads ARE trigger happy instruments of death. Islam is NOT a threat; the USA is the ONLY serious threat to stability and peace. They have been directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions, as a result of their aggressive foreign policy. While I don’t condone violence as a solution to resolving differences; it’s not hard to understand the stance taken by many peoples of the world as they try and combat Amerikan oppression. GET YOUR NOSES OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S BUSINESS — GO HOME, STAY HOME AND LEAVE EVERYONE ALONE. What started out as a great country has become a serious evil. The best thing from the USA has been LEVI jeans so, stick to making jeans. It seems that Amerika’s dominant religion is Christianity. How could “turning the other cheek” and “love thy enemy as thyself” have gone SO wrong ??? If Jesus came back today he’d be appalled by the hypocrites who commit murder in his name. WAKE UP TO YOURSELF MATE, you need some SERIOUS help.
rj Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Thank you, at least someone can think.
aussie assault Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
sillycat whats your contribution you f--- wit? Its morons like you that make me wish the USA would crumble you arrogant f---.And Zach if this leads to WW3 i hope every last part of your military gets crisped.You arseholes are a serious threat to peace just by the way yous torture and rape innocents.Id become a terrorist aswell if i found out friends or family were being raped and tortured.Wouldnt you?
Misha Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Too true blue, these scumbags are inviting some bad, bad karma upon themselves. Avoid Amerika at all costs, I would never go to a s---hole like that ever again; they’re going to get creamed.
June 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Great shot!!!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Sui Juris… Bin Laden is not hard to find, try looking for him at his family “hide” in Riyadh. Still angry about something zach? When I was 24, I thought killing all the Vietnamese was a great idea… I’m real glad we didn’t. Collateral damage is a hard thing to deal with when it’s women and children, and old folks too. But these radical taliban dudes and their A/Q buddies will learn someday soon that no place is safe, no time day or night is safe, no event is safe… just look up and smile. Don’t cry for these people… they would just as soon blow your ass up, and your family too, if they had the chance. Nuff Said.
Sui Juris Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Since you know where Bin Laden is, can you please tell me where Santa is? Also, i cant get a hold of the Tooth Fairy either. Humpty Dumpty, The Boogie Man, and The Easter Buny have a question for Mr. Laden…
Oh yeah, ask Benazir Bhutto where Bin Laden is……
You sure can recite the MSM like a pro!
June 24th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
AMERIKA : THE DEMON UNLEASHED..
June 24th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
l guess some sixty islamist terrorists will get to meet their allah real fast.
June 24th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Even the mafia had some sort of code of honor, “no women, no kids”. This kind of low life extermination will piss thousands of Taliban off and all it takes is one smart raghead with a degree in micro-biology to unleash a virus in a NY subway.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
We don’t care. It’s only some of those brown skinned people. Let’s go to McDonalds’. Right???? May GOD forgive us !!!!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Has it ever occured to any of you that maybe, just maybe we are trying to provoke a response from these backwards societies of ignorant people?
Same story with Kim Jong Il, true enough, the midget for sure has a little man complex, and those popped blood vessels in his brain are not helping him be lucid, but think about it, in the middle of one of his fits of paranoia, Obama pledges complete and nuclear support for South Korea if stumpy does something stupid.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:26 am
Well joe im thinking that hey more civilian deaths means more recruits for the taliban which was started by us to fight the russians from what i remember.I wouldnt doubt there were but a very few if any taliban there because im thinking those bombs from the predator must not leave identifiable flesh laying around.Therefore taliban dead in newspapers and recruits dying to join win win situation for the CIA which i call the new SS
June 25th, 2009 at 2:01 am
And we wonder why they want to kill us. I can guarantee many innocents died among them