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New Unmanned Attack on Pakistan Kills 14 | Danger Room from Wired.com
"The drones have struck again. "Missiles believed to have been fired by U.S. pilotless drone aircraft hit a militant hideout and training camp in Pakistan on Thursday," according to Reuters. As many as 14 people may have been killed in the attack.
This is the fifth reported unmanned strike since President Obama took office. More than 100 people have died, as a result.
Four missiles hit a militant hideout and training camp in the Kurram tribal agency. Previous attacks have been mostly concentrated to the south and north, in the regions of Bajaur and North and South Waziristan.
"The Taliban have used Kurram as a training ground for their forces and have established several bases in the agency, according to the Long War Journal's sources. "The Taliban in Kurram are led by Hakeemullah Mehsud, a rising star in the Pakistani Taliban [who] has been leading operations against NATO's supply lines in Khyber and Peshawar."
After the robotic planes hit, a local villager tells Reuters, "the training camp was completely destroyed."
And now, the most lethal U.S. unmanned aircraft are about to get deadlier still. Until now, Reaper drones were equipped only with Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs. But in a series of tests at the China Lake test range in California, a Reaper recently dropped satellite-guided munitions, generally considered to be more accurate. The drone's record in the trials: Nine kills out of nine."
"The drones have struck again. "Missiles believed to have been fired by U.S. pilotless drone aircraft hit a militant hideout and training camp in Pakistan on Thursday," according to Reuters. As many as 14 people may have been killed in the attack.
This is the fifth reported unmanned strike since President Obama took office. More than 100 people have died, as a result.
Four missiles hit a militant hideout and training camp in the Kurram tribal agency. Previous attacks have been mostly concentrated to the south and north, in the regions of Bajaur and North and South Waziristan.
"The Taliban have used Kurram as a training ground for their forces and have established several bases in the agency, according to the Long War Journal's sources. "The Taliban in Kurram are led by Hakeemullah Mehsud, a rising star in the Pakistani Taliban [who] has been leading operations against NATO's supply lines in Khyber and Peshawar."
After the robotic planes hit, a local villager tells Reuters, "the training camp was completely destroyed."
And now, the most lethal U.S. unmanned aircraft are about to get deadlier still. Until now, Reaper drones were equipped only with Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs. But in a series of tests at the China Lake test range in California, a Reaper recently dropped satellite-guided munitions, generally considered to be more accurate. The drone's record in the trials: Nine kills out of nine."