Taliban Gunmen Kill Foreign Climbers In Pakistan

[Locutus]

In Retaliation For American Drone Strike That Killed Taliban Leader

via Zip:

How are those peace talks with the Taliban going, Mr. President?
Via NY Times:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In one of the most brazen attacks on foreigners in the country in recent years, militants killed nine tourists and one Pakistani on a mountaineering expedition in northern Pakistan on Sunday, according to the country’s interior minister.

The dead included five Ukrainians and three Chinese, officials said. Their Pakistani guide was also killed in the attack. The nationality of the ninth tourist was unclear.

The attack occurred in far-flung Gilgit-Baltistan, a beautiful, mountainous part of northern Pakistan where attacks on foreigners have been rare in recent years, although there has been sporadic sectarian violence. Officials said that the foreigners were part of an expedition that planned to climb Nanga Parbat which, at 26,660 feet, is the world’s ninth highest mountain and Pakistan’s second highest peak.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, which he said was in retaliation for American drone strikes in the tribal belt.

Gunmen wearing police uniforms stormed into their camp around 1 a.m. Sunday morning and opened fire, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told Parliament on Sunday morning. The gunmen were said to have escaped after the attack.
The Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said they belonged to a Taliban affiliate named Jundul Hafsa, and that the attack was a response to an American drone attack that killed the Taliban deputy leader, Wali ur-Rehman, on May 29.

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Classy.
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[petros]

Did we win yet? Why not?

 

[taxslave]

Better gas up the drones for another run. Apparently they missed a few.

 

[petros]

LMFAO!!!! that's funny.

 

[shadowshiv]

Anyone with half a brain would realize that the climbers had NOTHING to do with the drones. Of course, it is the Taliban we're talking about, so there goes that theory.

 

[Zipperfish]

I'm getting really sick of this term "brazen." What, exactly, is "brazen" about shooting a bunch of unarmed tourists. That's the opposite of brazen. That's shooting fish in a frickin bucket.

 

[L Gilbert]

F'n Talibans are whacked. Killing some Ukrainians and Chinese in retaliation for a US drone strike? Some kinda goofy idea that the Ukraine and China would put pressure on the US or something? Someone's noggin needs a smack in the back of it.

 

[petros]

Sounds like something I saw in a video game.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Anyone with half a brain would realize that the climbers had NOTHING to do with the drones. Of course, it is the Taliban we're talking about, so there goes that theory.

Neither do innocent civilians killed by drone strikes have anything to do with the Taliban.

 

[Walter]

Neither do innocent civilians killed by drone strikes have anything to do with the Taliban.

They hide them.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

They hide them.

I await your proof that every civilian killed by a drone strike was hiding the Taliban.

Calculate it'll be a long wait. You don't do proof. You do faith.

 

[gopher]

Drones Said to Kill Pakistan’s Taliban Leader



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/w...ompound-used-by-pakistani-taliban-leader.html




LONDON — American drones on Friday killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, dealing a major blow to a militant group that has terrorized Pakistan and that tried to set off a car bomb in New York City in 2010, according to Pakistani intelligence officials and militant commanders in the tribal belt.


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The death of the leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, is a signal achievement for the covert C.I.A. program at a time when drones themselves have come under criticism from human rights groups and other critics in Pakistan and the United States over the issue of civilian casualties.



While prior reports of Mr. Mehsud’s death proved false — ultimately serving only to burnish his credentials as an untouchable renegade — within hours there was a strong sense from multiple sources, including two American defense officials, that this time he had not escaped.
“Hakimullah has been martyred,” said a local Taliban commander, speaking by phone from the tribal belt on the condition of anonymity. Pakistani officials backed up that assessment.





The death offered relief to many Pakistanis.

 

[pelikan]

Looks like high risk adventuring in Pakistan

 

[BaalsTears]

America shouldn't have a drone capacity. It leads to foreign assassinations and will someday be used against Americans.

 

[PoliticalNick]

I'm getting really sick of this term "brazen." What, exactly, is "brazen" about shooting a bunch of unarmed tourists. That's the opposite of brazen. That's shooting fish in a frickin bucket.

It's about as brazen as sending drones into a foreign sovereign nation that is supposed to be an ally and killing people. WTF do people expect? If some other nation sent drones into Canada and killed people I would start killing them and any of their their allies I could find too. It's just a shame they weren't all the family of some US senator or congressman.

Here's a novel idea....I bet if the US stops killing people in Afghanistan and Pakistan the people over there will stop killing people in retaliation. Just a theory but it might be worth trying.

 

[damngrumpy]

Maybe its time to set it to music and fired 100 red drones fire them
at everyone.
There is some pressure to put on the governments though, for every
foreigner killed or taken prisoner by these people the west would
reduced their aid money by twenty million dollars. When people
complained about their lack of living materials it could be explained
this way.
You are suffering because its the west that feeds you and you hate them
you are suffering because you will not demand your government drive out
the terrorists among you.
When you as citizens take action against the terrorists in your midst perhaps
the west will feed you again.

 

[PoliticalNick]

Maybe its time to set it to music and fired 100 red drones fire them
at everyone.
There is some pressure to put on the governments though, for every
foreigner killed or taken prisoner by these people the west would
reduced their aid money by twenty million dollars. When people
complained about their lack of living materials it could be explained
this way.
You are suffering because its the west that feeds you and you hate them
you are suffering because you will not demand your government drive out
the terrorists among you.
When you as citizens take action against the terrorists in your midst perhaps
the west will feed you again.

And what do we do about every foreigner killed or taken prisoner by the west Grumpy? For every one we increase aid by 20 million? I'm not sure a fair exchange like that would go in our favor. We would wind up owing them billions but I guess fair is fair.

 

[EagleSmack]

Maybe its time to set it to music and fired 100 red drones fire them
at everyone.
There is some pressure to put on the governments though, for every
foreigner killed or taken prisoner by these people the west would
reduced their aid money by twenty million dollars. When people
complained about their lack of living materials it could be explained
this way.
You are suffering because its the west that feeds you and you hate them
you are suffering because you will not demand your government drive out
the terrorists among you.
When you as citizens take action against the terrorists in your midst perhaps
the west will feed you again.