US carried out Madrasah bombing

[Genious]

THE bombing of a Pakistani madrasah last month, in which 82 students were killed, was carried out by the United States, a Pakistani official has admitted, writes Christina Lamb.

The madrasah in the tribal agency of Bajaur was bombed during a visit to Pakistan by the Prince of Wales amid allegations that it was being used to train suicide bombers.

“We thought it would be less damaging if we said we did it rather than the US,” said a key aide to President Pervez Musharraf. “But there was a lot of collateral damage and we’ve requested the Americans not to do it again.”

The Americans are believed to have attacked after a tip-off that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda, was present. Local people claimed the victims included boys as young as 12 and that the tribal area had been negotiating with the Pakistan government for a peace deal.

Pakistani officials insist they were shown satellite images of people training and have checked the identity cards of all those killed, and that all were adults.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2471863,00.html

[Nocturnal]

That was the assumption by quite a few people already. We walk a dangerous line in doing that sort of thing.

[rand0m]

At least they hit the building.

[Deep Cover]

AMERICA!
FUCK YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah!

America, FUCK YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCK YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCK YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
It’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

[kududoodoop]

At least they hit the building.

too bad we killed nearly 90 people.

i lawl at human life. how insignificant.

[0_transfat]

So what if there's one less mujahideen training camp? But still the fact that it was in Pakistan and the US was involved in the attack gives me hope for the future.

[eieio]

That was the assumption by quite a few people already. We walk a dangerous line in doing that sort of thing.

Why do we mentally 'allow' the terrorists to do all sorts of terrible crimes and give them a free pass? But when the US launches a highly targeted and isolated attack you immediately say we were wrong to try to take out al Qaeda's #2 man?

How many people would you have killed in order to have killed Goering or Goebbels or Himmler in WWII?

[Nocturnal]

Why do we mentally 'allow' the terrorists to do all sorts of terrible crimes and give them a free pass? But when the US launches a highly targeted and isolated attack you immediately say we were wrong to try to take out al Qaeda's #2 man?

How many people would you have killed in order to have killed Goering or Goebbels or Himmler in WWII?

It has nothing to do with allowing anyone to do anything. Most of the nations in the middle east are very unstable. You don't walk around with a sledgehammer hitting random supports in an old building.

Careless actions in Pakistan run the risk of an Islamic revolution happening there. Allowing a fundamentalist regime control of a nation with Nukes is probably not worth taking out even a top terrorist.

As I said, we walk a dangerous line between policing our enemies, and destabalizing the nation where we are operating.

[Genious]

Why do we mentally 'allow' the terrorists to do all sorts of terrible crimes and give them a free pass?

What does that even mean?


But when the US launches a highly targeted and isolated attack you immediately say we were wrong to try to take out al Qaeda's #2 man?

How many people would you have killed in order to have killed Goering or Goebbels or Himmler in WWII?

Highly targeted and isolated attack? It would have been if they killed only one person. Did they even kill Ayman al-Zawahiri? I guess we'll find out soon enough. Is it wrong to kill 82 (90?) people just to get one bad guy? Depends on who you ask I guess.

This kind of indiscriminate killing only causes more problems and fuels more hate towards the US. The attack was performed because of a "tip-off". It could have been Ayman al-Zawahiri himself who gave the "tip-off". Why didn't we pass this off to Pakistani authorities and let them handle it?

[rand0m]

Wait they where terroists in that building ... not children.

[Genious]

So they say. Just like it was initially reported that Pakistani helicopters were the ones who fired the missiles. Now it's the US. There's a lot of confusion with this story.

Correspondents in the Bajaur region report that residents have been collecting bodies from the rubble of the madrasah compound -- including children as young as 6 years old.
This was from an article that said it was the Pakistani military who destroyed the madrasah.