Archives: Massacres
Ghazlamai (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Jan 2011
What Happened? 07 January 2011: A U.S. drone strike destroyed a house, a car, and a motorbike in the Ghazlamai area of Datta Khel Tehsil. This attack reportedly happened at around 1320 hours. Media reports contradict on if whether a motorbike was destroyed too, where Geo TV reported that a ‘suspected militant’ fleeing on a…
Muhammad Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack VI – Jan 2011
What Happened? 01 January 2011: A U.S. drone strike destroyed a moving ‘state car’ in the Daur village of Muhammad Khel in Datta Khel Tehsil. This attack happened at around 1740 hours. Media reports alleged that between 04 to 05 ‘suspected militants’ had been killed. Data published years later by FATA officials allege that a…
Mandi Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack II – Jan 2011
What Happened? 01 January 2011: A U.S. drone strike targeted rescuers that dug through the rubble of an earlier drone strike in the Qari Markaz area of Mandi Khel in Spinwam Tehsil. This attack happened at around 0915 hours, an hour after the initial drone strike. An investigation by the Associated Press in 2012 used…
Mandi Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Jan 2011
What Happened? 01 January 2011: A U.S. drone strike destroyed a house and a car in the Qari Markaz area of Mandi Khel in Spinwam Tehsil. This attack happened at around 0815 hours. Media reports alleged that up to 9 ‘suspected militants’ belonging to the Taliban’s Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction were killed. An investigation by…
Stanai Bangidar (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Dec 2010
What Happened? 31 December 2010: A U.S. drone strike destroyed a car in the Stangai Algad or Bangidar area of Ghulam Khan Tehsil. This attack happened at around 1745 hours. Media reports allege that ‘suspected militants’, who had recently returned from a raid were targeted. An anonymous Pakistani security official is quoted saying that the…
Stanai Algad (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack III – Dec 2010
What Happened? 28 December 2010: A U.S. drone strike fired more than 6 missiles on a convoy of two cars in the Stanai Algad / Sherkhel area of Ghulam Khan Tehsil. This attack happened at around 1628 hours. The struck targets were apparently the victims of two earlier drone strikes on the same building. The…
Stanai Algad (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack II – Dec 2010
What Happened? 28 December 2010: A U.S. drone strike destroyed a house in the Stanai Algad or Sherkhel area in Ghulam Khan Tehsil. This attack happened at around 1230 hours. This U.S. drone strike targeted the rescuers who were digging through the rubble of an earlier attack. Media reports indicate that this drone strike had…
Stanai Algad (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Dec 2010
What Happened? 28 December 2010: A U.S. drone strike destroyed multiple houses in the Stanai Algad area of Ghulam Khan Tehsil. This attack likely started in the late hours of the morning. Media reports alleged that an Al Qaeda commander Nasir Al-Wahishi had been killed, however this allegation was false as Al-Wahishi was in Yemen…
Machi Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack V – Dec 2010
What Happened? 27 December 2010: A U.S. drone strike destroyed a car in the Machi Khel area of Mirali. It is not yet known at what time this attack happened. A local newspaper, Dawn, quoted an anonymous security official as saying that the victims were Pakistanis, rather than Arab fighters. This greatly increases the likelihood…
Shera Tala (N. Waziristan) Massacre – Dec 2010
What Happened? 27 December 2010: A U.S. drone strike destroyed two vehicles in either the Shera Tala or Wach Narai area of Mirali. This attack happened at around 0955 hours. Media reports indicated that multiple local Taliban commanders, including Fazal Amin, Qari Ahsanullah, Qari Muneeb, and Zahid Mendev. Data published by FATA officials years later…