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DAWN News: Air strikes kill 61 suspected militants in Orakzai
Thursday, 25 Mar, 2010
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The jet fire rained in two spells during the day in the Mamuzai area where many Taliban leaders are believed to have fled. — File Photo
PARACHINAR: Pakistani military air strikes killed 61 suspected militants in an area near the Afghan border Thursday, including dozens at a seminary where Taliban commanders were believed to be meeting, officials said.
The jet fire rained in two spells during the day in the Mamuzai area of Orakzai, a tribal region where many Taliban leaders are believed to have fled to avoid an army ground offensive further south.
Alongside the religious seminary, a mosque and a school were targeted, local official Samiullah Orakzai said.
Two intelligence officials said the seminary was a main center for Tableeghi Jamaat, a non-violent Islamic missionary group. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.
The center was targeted because a group of Taliban leaders were believed to be meeting there in the afternoon.
Some four dozen people died in the airstrikes in and around the seminary, while 13 others were killed in morning strikes at the two other sites.
The officials said all 61 were suspected militants. Independent confirmation of the death toll or the victims' identities was nearly impossible because access to the tribal region is restricted.
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- Now Pak Air Force has started bombing compounds of peaceful DEENi organizations.
- Now it is Pak Air Force who has targeted school(s) and mosque(s).
This is what I call state terrorism, as well as 'nation state' terrorism.
- This news clip confirms yet again that there's ZERO independent coverage of the affected areas, because of restrictions
Why would this be ?
- They killed 'suspects', rather than those who were confirmed as terrorists. In all probabilities, this means innocent civilian casualties i.e., innocent Pakistani citizens being slaughtered by their own defense forces.
- According to my friend in Canada, who is a Pakistani, who talked with a guy retired from Pak Air Force, he says 60% of pilots in Pak Air Force are undergoing psychiatric treatment because of being forced to take part in this nonsense of state terrorism.
