Good job arresting these terrorists but there will be a resurgence once the US pulls out. Then we have to straighten them from the air with our drones. 

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US assassination drone kills 5, injures 7 in northwestern Pakistan

A US assassination drone (file photo)

The drone strike took place in South Waziristan’s Babarghar area early Wednesday.

Local officials say the US drones fired two missiles at a house in South Waziristan. The house was completely destroyed in the attack.

The injured have reportedly been taken to local hospitals.

On April 14, four people were killed by a US terror drone in the Datta Khel area, located some 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Miranshah, in North Waziristan.

Pakistan’s tribal regions are attacked by US assassination drones almost regularly, with Washington claiming that militants are the targets. However, casualty figures clearly indicate that civilians are the main victims.

The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, has strained the relation between Islamabad and Washington. The US assassination drone strikes have triggered massive protests in Pakistan.

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Pakistan condemns US drone attack in North Waziristan

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Pakistani Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Monday saying that “Such unilateral attacks are in contravention of International Law and counterproductive to the stability of this country.”

The statement also added that the government of Pakistan considers drone attacks to be a violation of the country's “sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

The statement called on American officials to stop drone attacks “based on mutual respect and established international norms.”

On Sunday, a US killer drone fired two missiles at a house in Datta Khel area located some 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan.

Officials said the house was completely destroyed in the attack and at least four people were killed.

Pakistan’s tribal regions are attacked by US assassination drones almost regularly with Washington claiming that militants are the targets. However, casualty figures clearly indicate that civilians are the main victims.

The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, has strained relations between Islamabad and Washington.

On January 7, eight people were killed in similar attacks in the village of Haiderkhel in the Miranshah district of North Waziristan. Sixteen people had been also killed in a killer drone strike on South Waziristan a day before.

On January 22, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Islamabad would “take up drone attacks issue with Washington and its ambassador to Pakistan.”

The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism said in a report released in February that the United States has carried out more than 360 assassination drone attacks in Pakistan since 2004, killing nearly 3,500 people.

Terrorists hide among the civilians, perpetuate their evil deeds placing the innocents in harms way, then they lament when the innocents are injured/killed.  Knock them off where ever they are.  The people need to turn against them chasing them away from their villages.

For every Taliban killed, the US and Nato is slaughtering 40 innocent Muslim Children, Women and Men and Babies in their sleep, whilst the world of Muslims remains quiet.

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Mass slaughter: Twelve civilians, including 11 children killed in Afghan NATO strike

Afghan villagers sit near the bodies of children who they said were killed during an air strike in Kunar province April 7, 2013

A NATO airstrike has killed 11 children and one woman in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials. A house collapsed during the attack, causing the casualties and leaving six women injured.

The civilians were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation late on Saturday night in the Shigal district of Kunar province, which borders Pakistan.

"Eleven children and a woman were killed when an air strike hit their houses," provincial spokesman Wasifullah Wasifi said on Sunday.

A Reuters journalist saw the bodies of 11 children being carried by their families and other villagers. They were on their way to the office of Mohammad Zahir Safai, the Shigal district chief, to register their protest.

The body of the female victim was not seen, as women's bodies are not displayed in accordance of custom. However, local residents told the journalist of her death.

Six militants - two of them senior Taliban leaders - and an American civilian adviser to the Afghan intelligence agency were also killed in the operation.

A spokesman for the NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan said they were aware of reports regarding civilian casualties and were assessing the incident, Reuters reports.

The spokesman, Captain Luca Carniel, said the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had provided "air support" during the operation, but that no ISAF troops were on the ground.

The airstrike had been called in by NATO forces, and not their Afghan allies, he continued.

Earlier on Saturday, five Americans, including three US soldiers, a young diplomat and a US Defense Department contractor were also killed when a car bomb targeted their convoy in the southern province of Zabul.

Provincial governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery was in the convoy, but was not injured in the attack, local and NATO officials said.

"Our American officials and their Afghan colleagues were on their way to donate books to students in a school in Qalat, the province's capital, when they were struck by this despicable attack," US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.

The foreign service officer, identified 25-year-old Anne Smedinghoff, was described by Kerry as "vivacious, smart" and "capable."

Four other US diplomats were wounded, one critically, Kerry continued.

Recently, Afghan security forces have been taking the lead in operations against Taliban insurgency in preparation for the final withdrawal of alliance forces in 2014.

US Special Forces were forced to withdraw from two Afghan provinces back in February by the government after a number of reports of "harassing, torturing and murdering innocent civilians."

U.S. troops with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) keep watch at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, February 27, 2013 (Reuters / Omar Sobhani)'Fueling instability'

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai slammed the US forces for fueling "insecurity and instability" in troubled provinces located close to Kabul.

But despite President Karzai's often contentious relationship with ISAF forces over "collateral damage", NATO will continue to launch airstrikes when it is tactically beneficial, political analyst Habib Hakimi told RT.

"President Karzai actually banned Afghan security forces (almost two months ago) from calling NATO forces for air support during operations against Taliban forces and other militant groups. But it seems NATO doesn't care about."

Errant NATO airstrikes have put Afghan President Karzai in a particularly precarious position, as he both owes his power to US-led forces but also is delegitimized as a result of their actions, RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports.

"These airstrikes come amid repeated pleas of the Afghan government of President Karzai to stop killing civilians. In Karzai's words, they fuel insecurity and instability, they further alienate Afghans from their government, which many Afghans see as a puppet government," she said.

"President Karzai, though he does owe his power to allied forces, to Washington specifically, he clearly understands that those civilian casualties steer more violence in Afghanistan and undermine his government even further," Chichakyan continued.

News editor at Antiwar.com, Jason Ditz believes that in many cases, American airstrikes almost tend to have the exact opposite effect to what everyone desired, creating more problems for the Americans themselves.

"The long-term effects are the bigger deal in that civilians who had relatives killed in those incidents are more likely to support the Taliban. Fighting men who were maybe on the sideline are also more likely to join the Taliban after an incident like this... even airstrikes that kill militants tend to create more militants... And certainly, if you kill children, it's going to leave a dramatically worse impact."

Lawrence Davidson, Professor of Middle East History at West Chester University says that it is hard for Americans to understand why this war went on for 11 years and what they are still doing there now.

"From the American standpoint this war was never winnable - if winnable means the defeat of the Taliban or anti-foreign forces that passed by the name of the Taliban," he told RT.

"We are not going to defeat the Taliban, which is a multifaceted sort of operation. We are in a country that isn't really unified. The central government really doesn't have a lot of power throughout the country. And when we are done, my opinion is that it will rapidly disappear."

Peace activist David Swanson blames US media coverage for keeping Americans unaware of the real face of the war in Afghanistan, which he describes as "one-sided slaughter of helpless people."

"Even the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed Americans," he told RT.

"The US deaths of course are always smaller numbers but they dominate the coverage. Americans are not aware of the extent to which this war is essentially a one-sided slaughter of helpless people who meant us no ill, and has been for over a decade."