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Reported by: Soha crwenewswire Mideast correspondent.

The Taliban have said that US General David Petraeus is killing more civilians and drawing more attacks on US and NATO troops since he took command in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Taliban said on their website `Petraeus only accomplishment since he took over US and NATO troop command three weeks ago, is civilian casualties (mass murder), which is being considered by many nas his new war strategy and tactic`.

The website claimed that `90 non-combatant defenseless civilians have been martyred by the US invaders` blind bombardments across Afghanistan over the past two weeks, adding that such actions only create growing resentment by Afghans against foreign troops`.

Over the past one and a half year the US forces have increased attacks with unmanned drone aircraft in Afghanistan. Regarding these attacks Taliban said `of every type on US invading forces…have reached record levels since General Patraeus took charge. The consensus among the people of Afghanistan is there is a lack of morale among US troops which has left Petraeus with no other alternative but to resort to carrying out his vicious war plans and tactics, which are causing further civilian casualties (mass murder) over and over again`. This is creating a whole new generation of terrorists who will carry a hatred toward the US

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Reported by: Soha crwenewswire Mideast correspondent.

Local media reports have said that at least five people have been killed and four injured in a US drone attack in South Waziristan, an agency of the tribal areas.

The drone attack took place at about noon time. It fired four missiles at a house in Shaktoi area of South Waziristan. The targeted house is believed to be the house of Baitullah Mehsood who was killed by a US drone attack in August 2009. A vehicle parked outside the house was also blown up by the missiles. A Rescue operation was begun by the locals after the attack. It however couldn’t be verified to which militant group the ones killed belonged.

It is believed that a Jirga was being held in the house at the time of the attack.

The second drone attack took place the same evening. The drone fired two missiles killing four men. It was carried out a few kilometers from Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan agency.

The local residents said that the drones continued flying over the area even after the attacks.

On Saturday a drone attack klled 18 men in Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan.

Reports suggest that among those killed in the drone attacks so far mostly are innocent civilians having no political affiliations at all.

These drone attacks have contributed to the anti USA sentiment in the Muslim state.

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By Mike Zaman

A recent report from one of our Mideast correspondents Soha warrants further discussion.

“US Drone attack kills 16 in Pakistan”

Soha reported that The US Drone attacks inside Pakistan have killed 834 civilians, and only 8 Taliban.

The US acknowledges (if true)14 senior Al-Qaeda leaders have been killed in these attacks since 2006 while in the same period; US Drone attacks have killed over 700 Pakistani civilians. The numbers from both reports are very close.

But it isn’t just Pakistan, in Iraq, verified civilian deaths are over 105,000, and in Afghanistan another 10,000 to 20,000 civilians. In each case a family relative holds our nation responsible.

Now what we should be concerned about!

Terrorism is growing! Why?

America has become a rogue nation following NO law neither international nor even our own. What we are doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan and through out the Mideast is going to come back and haunt us.

We are killing Civilians in the name of a false war, the nomenclature “a War on Terrorism” is a fallacy, you can not commit war against idealism, and terrorism is just that.

Terrorism is acting out against a perceived enemy, but it is a symptom of repression. We cannot fight repression with more repression! And that is just what America has been attempting to do for the past (9) years.

Because America has failed to grasp that War is not an answer to the problems facing nations, America will lose the faith of the entire Mideast region and the result, America will in the end lose all of these wars.

Even now there is regional talk about the Mideast coming together as one block against the US. We can not continue to bully these people. But will we learn in time?

The way to fight the symptom (Terrorism) is to address the cause - not to make martyrs, which only add to the symptom. This is what we with our military strength have failed to understand. America has become a nation out of touch with the world; we are a nation that thinks first with testosterone, rather then with the brain. War will never bring terrorism to its knees, it only begets martyrs who take up the mantle of the fallen and replace those that have been killed, it becomes a never ending campaign where no one wins while death and destruction go on indefinitely.

Can we afford this either emotionally or financially?

There is a better way, but Washington and the Pentagon will never concede that War is not the answer. It is profitable big business for the defense contractors, and it allows for a large defense budget.

What Soha said in the report, should be a wake up call for a sleeping America!

“The political parties are of the view that these drone attacks are a source of instilling terrorism rather than eradicating it. The relatives of the civilians killed during these attacks take revenge on the Government of Pakistan. Many arrested terrorists revealed during interrogations that they were actually taking revenge for the brutal murder of their loved ones by these attacks.”

We are destabilizing the entire Mideast for what reason, is their oil really worth the killing?

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Reported by: Soha crwenewswire Mideast correspondent.

A suspected US drone strike has killed 16 people in Pakistan’s tribal area of South Waziristan.

Ghafoor Shah a local government official said that the drone fired at least five missiles at a suspected militant compound in Dwasarak village of South Waziristan, a district in Pakistan’s tribal region in South Waziristan. Dwasark is close to the Afghan border in the Angoor Adda area.

Scores of people are reported to have been injured during the strike. However no independent sources were available to verify whether the killed ones were really militants and had any links with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Two intelligence officials one in Peshawar and one based in Wana, also confirmed the attack. South Waziristan is considered a militant stronghold.

This is not the first time that USA has, launched a drone attack inside Pakistan. Unmanned drone attacks have been carried out in Pakistan since 2004. During the government of George W Bush in USA these strikes were launched as part of the USA War against Terror aimed at targeting militants in the Af-Pak border area.

Drone attacks are carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) operated from the Creech Air force Base and are being continued during the Obama administration.

Later media reports revealed that these attacks are actually launched from the Shamsi Air base in Pakistan.

Since 2004, 77 drone attacks have been launched in Pakistan. 834 people are reported to have lost their lives in these attacks. Later sources revealed that not even one quarter of those killed were terrorists but were innocent civilians. Top US officials have also confessed last year that less than 8 top Al-Qaeda operatives have been targeted in these attacks yet these Drone attacks have taken the lives of 834 good people.

In May 2009, in testimony before the US Congress, US advisor to Gen David Kilmullen, asked the Obama administration to call off the attacks stating `We have killed only 14 senior Al-Qaeda leaders since 2006 and in the same period, killed over 700 Pakistani civilians`.

Drone attacks have always drawn severe criticism from all sections of the Pakistani society. These are considered a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Pakistani political parties have constantly demanding the government to bring an end to these attacks. The question being raised is that if the drone attacks are not being able to achieve their desired purpose then why are they being continued?

The answer is again a conspiracy theory. USA wants the tribals to rebel against the Government of Pakistan, and create a civil war like the situation in the country, a situation that would create a justification for the USA to deprive Pakistan of its nuclear arsenal.

The political parties are of the view that these drone attacks are a source of instilling terrorism rather than eradicating it. The relatives of the civilians killed during these attacks take revenge on the Government of Pakistan. Many arrested terrorists revealed during interrogations that they were actually taking revenge for the brutal murder of their loved ones by these attacks.

The parliament of Pakistan also passed a resolution condemning these drone attacks and demanded an immediate halt to them. The resolution was answered by another drone attack by the USA the same evening.

It is said that the drone attacks are also a violation of international laws and the UN may play a role in it. But the CIA chief Leon Panetta said that their duty is defending America and that doesn’t requires any permission. The question that is being raised is how is the CIA or the USA defending America by having unmanned Drones kill innocent Pakistani civilians.

One Pakistani government official said that Pakistan had to tolerate these attacks as it doesn’t have the technology to shoot down these drones. The Air Force Chief negated the claim saying that Pakistan has the ability but that would require permission of the head of state.

Sources say that Pakistan is in talks with its long time ally China and other countries to attain the drone technology.

The USA has never officially given a confirmation of any of these attacks. Sometimes a few US officials have said that these attacks are being carried out with the consent of the Pakistani government. But the Pakistani officials say that these attacks are actually imposed on them as the Americans simply decline to discuss the issue. The American media reports however repeatedly say that such attacks have a tacit understanding and approval of Pakistan’s military.

Pakistan has often asked USA to give it the drone technology but the Americans don’t agree with it. They fear that it maybe used against their `strategic ally` in the region; India. USA`S obvious tilt towards India in preference over Pakistan’s interest has always denied it of any kind of public support in Pakistan.

This is the reason that a large majority in Pakistan doesn’t believe in the War against Terror and consider it America’s war. Although Pakistani and American politicians always try their best to make Pakistanis believe that this is actually their war of survival. The killing of Pakistani civilians make the country believe otherwise.

Nobody in Pakistan knows when these drone attacks will come to an end but there is a consensus on one thing that these attacks have been counter productive both in emotional and military terms.

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