What Happened?

15 January 2006: A US drone missile struck the Damodola village in Bajaur Agency (Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas), killing at least 18 people. Local media confirmed that five women and four children were among the dead, with 14 of the victims belonging to the same family.

Western media reported this strike as a ‘successful attack’ against Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to Osama Bin Laden. This claim was neither corroborated by local media nor Pakistan’s military intelligence, and was later proven false.

No legal proceedings, investigations, or criminal accountability followed the incident.

Nearly 10 months later, another US drone struck a school in the same agency, killing more than 70 children, some as young as seven years old.

References

Imtiaz Ali. (2006). Pakistan fury as CIA airstrike on village kills 18. Retrieved from The Telegraph.

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