Obama orders air strikes on villages in tribal area

* Ewen MacAskill in Washington
* The Guardian, Saturday 24 January 2009
* Article history

Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action yesterday, missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.

"The first attack yesterday was on the village of Zharki, in Waziristan; three missiles destroyed two houses and killed 10 people. One villager told Reuters of phonethat of nine bodies pulled from the rubble of one house, six were its owner and his relatives; Reuters added that intelligence officials said some foreign militants were also killed. A second attack hours later also in Warizistan killed eight people."

Wake up America.

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Comment by Persian Paladin on January 24, 2009 at 3:12pm: Al Qaeda in Afghanistan did not attack the USA on 9/11. Even the FBI admit it: -

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

Comment by bob3160 on January 24, 2009 at 3:10pm: Tyler,
I agree with you about the Federal Reserve but you're mixing up Monetary with Military.
I believe the rest of us where referring to the latter.

Comment by Tyler Brown on January 24, 2009 at 2:13pm: Jaym, if we wanted to go after the REAL terrorists, the US government would be going after itself. OR, at least the Federal Reserve and the IRS.

Comment by Jaym on January 24, 2009 at 2:10pm: Five days in and he's already correctly turned the focus back to the REAL area of the war on terror, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amazing how Bush couldn't manage to do as much after so many years.

If Pakistan isn't going to clean out the tribal region, we have to. The difference is- we're justified in going after the terrorists within that region, as THEY are the ones that committed 9/11, unlike the lack of justification we had in Iraq which had nothing whatsoever to do with anything other than a Bush grudge and cash money.

Comment by bob3160 on January 24, 2009 at 10:44am: I'm sure he acted under advice of his military advisors as all Presidents before him have.
This doesn't make the loss of civilian life any less painful but it certainly doesn't make Obama
any more of a villain than any President before or after him in this or any other country.
Until people learn to get along together, unnecessary and useless killing will always occur.

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