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By Michael Georgy
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Mon Oct 4, 2010 4:19pm EDT
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike killed eight militants of German nationality in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
They died when two missiles from a suspected CIA pilotless aircraft struck a mosque in Mirali in North Waziristan, the officials added.
The attack came a day after the United States and Britain warned of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe. Western security officials said last week they believed a group in northern Pakistan were connected to a plot to stage attacks.
The militants were members of a group called Jihad Islami, the Pakistani intelligence officials said without elaborating. There was no independent verification and militants often dismiss official reports of successful operations against them.
"People were gathering at the mosque for prayers when a missile hit the building," Mohammad Alam, a resident of Mirali, told Reuters by telephone, describing Monday's drone strike.
"The area has been cordoned off by militants and they are not allowing anyone there."
The State Department warned American citizens to exercise caution if traveling in Europe. Britain raised the threat level to "high" from "general" for its citizens traveling to Germany and France.
U.S.-PAKISTAN TENSIONS
The immediate trigger for Sunday's travel alerts was intelligence about a plot against European targets reportedly originating with a group of individuals in mountainous northern Pakistan, some of them believed to be European citizens.
One security official in Germany said last week word of the plot had probably originated from the interrogation of a German-Afghan suspect in Afghanistan.
The suspect believed to be behind the intelligence was identified by media as Ahmed Sidiqi, a German of Afghan origin. German media said he came from Hamburg and had been held in the U.S. military prison of Bagram in Afghanistan since July.
German counter-terrorism expert Guido Steinberg told Reuters Sidiqi was a member of a cell of militants from Hamburg that was believed to be a central component of the conspiracy.
Steinberg said the cell left for Pakistan in March 2009 and joined Pakistan-based members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Central Asian militant organization.
CNN reported the 11-strong group included a German of Syrian descent and a German of Iranian descent while an associate of the plot was a Frenchman of Algerian origin, it said
Sidiqi divulged new, unverified information every day, CNN reported German intelligence sources as saying.
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Oct 04, 2010 1:57pm EDT
Great title Reuters.
I think the word ‘militant’ should probably have been in the TITLE.
I’d say thats probably relevant.
Unless you think bad guys dying in Pakistan via drone is news.
Its not news, this is a shameless shock and awe tactic to get people to read this crap.
Pathetic
BHOlied
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Oct 04, 2010 2:13pm EDT
Well, it wasn’t verified that it was militants. That was only according to the US gov…..which is about as trustworthy as a corrupt politician.
mastershakejb
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Oct 04, 2010 2:16pm EDT
Also notice, that the missiles struck a MOSQUE! What happened to the ‘hearts and minds’ campaign? I guess the USA wants rebels, to they can sell arms to themselves, at the cost of US taxpayers, and the benefits of CEO’s in US arms manufacturing companies.
mastershakejb
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Oct 04, 2010 2:29pm EDT
The Islamist jihadists hide behind the skirts of women and think nothing of hiding in schools, mosques, or homes of non jihadists, putting all at risk….their goal is that of Islam, to rid the world of non-believers of Islam.
and they think nothing of human lives, their cult believes they go to paradise and receive 72 maidens….there will be no peace anywhere until they are stopped….
crbob
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Oct 04, 2010 2:39pm EDT
Germans or whoever else, they were criminals in need to be brought to justice. Or the justice brought to them, in this case delivered by the drone. And in the course thereof saved the German government a bundle they’d otherwise spent on trying, convicting, and incarcerating these criminals.
anonym0us
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Oct 04, 2010 2:59pm EDT
Oh, so there are NON-militant Germans in Northern Waziristan? Give it up. Mosque schmosque. If they didn’t use mosques as bases we wouldn’t bomb them.
ggb667
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Oct 04, 2010 3:11pm EDT
So, anyone is a “militant,” and “worthy of death” if some informant unilaterally declares them so, and thus, they can be killed by remote bombs, along with any number of innocent civilians, while praying in a house of worship, in a sovereign nation with whom the perpetrators of the killing are not at war?
Now, tell me again, who are the “terrorists?”
What exactly makes these Germans, “bad guys?” Uh, someone said that they were planning on killing people with bombs?
I suppose no planning went into killing these victims with bombs, in the place of their residence!?!
What constitutes “terrorism,” if not precisely these kinds of acts?
Did these bombs that killed everyone in the mosque have legitimate “authority?” By whom? Pakistan, the nation in which these acts took place?
The American people are weary of the pallid, thin, and tired “bad guys” or “times of war” “militant/terrorist” rhetoric of the self-justifying U.S. military sub-culture.
Please give up wrapping yourselves in the flag. You defile it and the honorable principles its embodies by your bloodthirsty presences.
pointfish
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Oct 04, 2010 3:12pm EDT
Personally I think this is the way to fight these wars anyway. Large troop deployments are not effective with this type of terrorism fight. The CIA should have been given more tools a while back to quench some of these people.
jscott418
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Oct 04, 2010 3:21pm EDT
it is important to keep the militants off guard and not knowing when a US drone will send them to be with Allah. As long as we have the technology and are assured we know who we are targeting, then we should do all we can to protect this country. For justification, I keep the September 2001 issue of US News which shows thousands of people above the impact point of the plane standing in the windows of one of the Twin Towers waiting to die. There only crime was to go to work that day. This is a war of no quarter. Until radical Muslims become rational, they will contiue to die at our hands.
phuyayyay
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