Pakistani air raids kill 70 civilians

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Islamabad - Pakistani forces killed 23 Taliban militants on Sunday, a day after 70 civilians reportedly died and over 50 were injured in air raids in country's militancy-plagued tribal region near the Afghan border, officials and locals said.

The strikes were carried out in the Orakzai district, where government forces are conducting an offensive to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts, and in the neighbouring district of Khyber.

A spokesman of the paramilitary Frontier Corps force, Major Fazalur Rehman, said 12 militants died and six were injured Sunday in a clash with troops in the Orakzai villages of Kangra and Saam.

Honestly we need to stop these needless drone attacks. They are doing more harm than good.

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[edit on 13/4/2010 by Mirthful Me]

Originally posted by Vinveezy
Honestly we need to stop these needless drone attacks. They are doing more harm than good.

'The jet fighters first bombarded a cluster of six houses and when the people gathered to pull the dead and injured from the rubble the plans targeted the place once more,' said a local government official, who asked not to be named.

They were Jets not drones?

[edit on 13-4-2010 by groomlake9]

if that is the case
then they were targeting civilians
and are terrorists themselves

the whole world has become nothing
but terrorists I tell ya