President George Bush is escalating the war throughout the Middle-east. This latest incident is just one more example of how the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan are spilling over boarders to the rest of the Middle-east.
According to ABC News, The Associated Press :
“DAMADOLA, Pakistan Jan 14, 2006 — Pakistan on Saturday condemned a purported CIA airstrike on a border village that officials said unsuccessfully targeted al-Qaida's second-in-command, and said it was protesting to the U.S. Embassy over the attack that killed at least 17 people.
Thousands of local tribesmen, chanting "God is Great," demonstrated against the attack, claiming the victims were local villagers without terrorist links and had never hosted Ayman al-Zawahri.
Two senior Pakistani officials told The Associated Press that the CIA acted on incorrect information in launching the attack early Friday in the northwestern village of Damadola, near the Afghan border.
Citing unidentified American intelligence officials, U.S. news networks reported that CIA-operated Predator drone aircraft carried out the missile strike because al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, was thought to be at a compound in the village or about to arrive.”
How do the drones make sure these people are by themselves and not with someone’s family and children? They are unmanned. For that answer we need to ask Bush.
Pakistani tribal villagers view damage caused by airstrikes in the northwestern village of Damadola, near the Afghan border in Pakistan, where 17 people killed, Saturday, Jan 14, 2006. Villagers whose homes were destroyed in a U.S airstrike targeting al-Qaida's number 2 Ayman al-Zawahri denied that he was ever there, as thousands marched in three separate protests against the attack. One mob set fire to the office of a U.S.-funded aid group. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)
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