US drone strikes kill dozens in Yemen, Pakistan
■ In the two and a half weeks since President Barack Obama’s speech at the National Defense University justifying his policy of drone assassination, as many as 25 people have been killed and as many as 12 others injured in four US drone missile attacks in Pakistan and Yemen. The attacks demonstrate that the Obama administration intends to continue indefinitely its illegal assassination campaign.
■ In Pakistan, seven people were killed and as many as four more injured in a drone strike June 7. According to Pakistani intelligence officials, the attack came shortly after sunset in the village of Gubez in North Waziristan’s Shawal region, near the border with Afghanistan. The area is known to be a stronghold of Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a coalition of militias fighting the US occupation of Afghanistan and the Pakistani state, which is collaborating with the US war. The June 7 attack came approximately a week and a half after the last strike in Pakistan. A CIA drone May 29 killed at least seven people in North Waziristan, including Wali Ur-Rehman the second in command of the Pakistani Taliban.
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US to dictate Pakistani government’s policy: Atif Ali - Video - Press TV: Now, [Pakistani] Prime Minister [Nawaz] Sharif has said that he was against US drones operating in Pakistan and just after a couple of days after his inauguration we saw the first American drone attack, which killed several people. What message is Washington trying to give Islamabad? Ali: Well, it is a pretty standard operating procedure for Pakistan now, there is a new government sworn in; a democratic government who came with a heavy mandate from the people of Pakistan. And this drone attack, which should be called now by its name that is arbitrary extrajudicial killing wire flying machine; we call it drone, it is sending us a clear message to Pakistanis that nothing has been changed. There is going to be a consistency in the policy; there will be the same reign of terror and fear on Pakistan.