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To: RetiredNow who wrote (252056)	6/5/2010 12:15:55 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 306849

Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders. You may have noticed that Bush made no progress at killing any of the leaders, but then when Obama expanded the drone attacks, there's been a steady parade of key Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders killed over the past year and a half. It works. It works much better than sending 100K troops to fight door to door. Al Qaeda wants us to play their game, where we spend trillions to fight them and they spend thousands or millions to fight us. Let's not play that game. Let's kill them from the air, spending pennies to do it. That will frustrate the hell out of them, because they can't see it coming and they never know when a strike will come. It's the perfect response to their madness. --- Yes, one Taliban leader has died 7 times! Very effective strategy. ++++ US Again Fails to Kill Pakistani Taliban Leader Hakimullah 'Basically OK' Reports ISI by Jason Ditz, April 28, 2010 Antiwar Forum For most people, one time being killed by the United States is plenty. Even the most hardened insurgent can rarely claim to have been killed more than a couple of times before it takes on an air of permanence. But Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has them all beat with the apparent confirmation of his latest survival, his seventh overall. According to a senior member of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency Hakimullah, who was “confirmed” killed in January and then assumed to be gravely wounded, and who was “confirmed” the have died of his injuries in February, is alive and “basically ok.” Hakimullah has not been seen publicly since a late February video was released, though with the Pakistani military attacking the TTP in several agencies across the tribal areas and with so many threats against his life it is perhaps unsurprising that he is keeping a low profile. Hakimullah took power of the TTP in August after the US successfully assassinated his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, in an air strike. Baitullah’s death was initially thought to be a serious blow to the group but the aggressive and charismatic Hakimullah has made the group arguably far more dangerous, launching several major attacks and orchestrating the bombing of a CIA base in neighboring Afghanistan. +++++ FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2010 21:01 ET Terrorism: The inevitable blowback from drone attacks If a foreign power were dropping missiles on your town, would you call the resistance "terrorism"? BY DAVID SIROTA salon.com AP/K.M.Chaudary Supporters of Pakistani Labour Party rally against the United States and condemn drone attacks on militants in Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan border. Imagine, if you can, an alternate universe. Imagine that in this alternate universe, a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using on-board missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors. Now imagine that when you read the newspaper about this ongoing bloodbath, you learn that the foreign nation's top general is nonchalantly telling reporters that his troops are also killing "an amazing number" of your cultural brethren in an adjacent country. Imagine further learning that this foreign power is expanding the drone attacks on your community despite the attacks' well-known record of killing innocents. And finally, imagine that when you turn on your television, you see the perpetrator nation's tuxedo-clad leader cracking stand-up comedy jokes about drone strikes — jokes that prompt guffaws from an audience of that nation's elite.