Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 4 in Pakistan

[The Northerner]

Pakistani officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed four suspected militants in the country's northwest near the Afghan border.

Intelligence sources say the missiles hit a vehicle driven by rebels on Thursday in the North Waziristan tribal region.

This marks the second drone strike in the region this week. Late on Tuesday, U.S. missiles killed four suspected militants after hitting a compound near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan.

U.S. officials confirmed that attack, the first of its kind since NATO helicopters mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the border last November.

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So after 24 Pakistani soldiers were slaughtered in November 2011 for allegedly being militants, the drone strikes will resume regardless of how many civilians and suspected militants are killed?

It certainly wouldn't be acceptable if another country flew drones into our territory and had people killed on the basis of being suspected militants, right?

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1. there must be $ laying around some where -- those drones are expensive.

and we're firing them off like the 4th of july.

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2. "suspected militants" = people opposed to US foreign/corporate policy in the region

When did we declare a war on militants, anyway?

For that matter, WTF IS a "militant"?