U.S. Airstrike in Pakistan Based on False Info — Pakistani’s Protest

[kerrygoddess]

U.S. Airstrike in Pakistan Based on False Info — Pakistani’s Protest
January 14th, 2006

Yesterday, a deadly U.S. missile strike hit a residential compound in Pakistan — they were acting on information that al Qaeda’s Zawahiri was in the village. U.S. officials both CIA and Defense Department are declining to talk about the airstrike, which took the lives of “nine women and six children.” Apparently, Zawahiri was not in the village.

CIA officials declined to comment on the report. A spokesman for the U.S. Central Command, the military organization in charge of the region, said last night that the mission was not a Central Command operation. He added that there was no “operational reporting” of the incident through military channels. A Pentagon official said he could not comment on any “alleged airstrike.”

Pakistan has condemned the airstrike and said it “was protesting to the U.S. Embassy over the attack that killed at least 17 people.”


Citing unidentified American intelligence officials, U.S. news networks reported that CIA-operated Predator drone aircraft carried out the missile strike because al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant, was thought to be at a compound in the village or about to arrive.

“Their information was wrong, and our investigations conclude that they acted on a false information,” said a senior Pakistani intelligence official with direct knowledge of Pakistan’s investigations into the attack.

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[StClone]

1. Zeal to redirect attention towards terror successes

Leads to "success stories" followed by orchestrated cover-ups that may be purposely misdirected to innocent targets by locals looking for tip money or seeking to embarrass the U.S. Bush is only to happy to comply.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Nobody was responsible.

Got it. Perhaps the 18-30 dead will now get up out of their graves, as it seems that this didn't happen.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. People paid by "the enemy" to give the U.S. misleading

information??? The U.S. eager to act on it??? Witness Ahmad Chalabi and Curveball. "Nuff said.

[orwell]

4. But...

...CNN and FUX were breathless in their reportage that we got al-Zawahri. You mean we screwed up.

I'm sure that will be all over the airways... :eyes:

[wisteria]

7. I wasn't watching FUX, but I can tell you CNN pulled out all the buttons

and whistles. They played this up so much, I wonder how many people who watched actually think they got #2?

[punpirate]

5. There are so many red flags in this...

... the attacks occurred at 2:40 a.m. How does one positively identify one person from 30-40,000 ft. overhead in the dark? Since when is infrared from that height an accurate means of identification?

The first AP reporter to arrive, twelve hours later, said the townspeople counted eight explosions, and three houses were damaged, several hundred yards apart. If the object was to kill al-Zawahiri, wouldn't just one missile do?

Both AP reports so far include the phrase, "reports that al-Zawahiri was there, or was about to arrive." Why "about to arrive?" If he was about to arrive, why not kill him on the way instead of killing dozens of villagers? If he was about to arrive, what's the point of attacking the village before he got there?

Unidentified American intelligence officials said that? Sounds as if someone is trying to cover up that the operation was about something else entirely, or was a big screw-up.

[EuroObserver]

8. Computer game mentality. n/t

[Neil Lisst]

6. All to take focus off Friday's witnesses by Dems on Alito

I'm convinced the administration's game plan, which they carried out well, was to declare the Alito hearings OVER on Thursday through various media lap dogs, and bury the matter under a new story for the weekend.

WE GOT OSAMA OR THE GUY NEXT HIM!!

AGAIN!!

Bull Snarky.

[diamondsndust]

9. You mean to tell me.....

that the leaders of our country and military would act on information that they didn't know was 100% correct?!?!?!? SHOCKING, just shocking I tell ya! What about the biased media actually reporting it before it was confirmed?? Something has got to be done!!