Tag: Civilian targets
Boya Kalay (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack II – May 2010
What Happened? 21 May 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house in the Boya Kalay or Saeed Abad area of North Waziristan. The house reportedly belonged to a local man Shams Ullah or Khalil Jan. An Al-Qaeda statement released later confirmed that an operator named Saeed Al Misri had been killed in this attack.…
Inzarkas (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack II – May 2010
What Happened? 11 May 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted the village of Inzar Kas or Kazha Madda Khel in Datta Khel Tehsil. A drone strike at a nearby village two days earlier had killed at least four civilians. The official narrative was that the CIA had targeted a hideout of suspected militants. An anonymous…
Boya Kalay (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Apr 2010
What Happened? 12 April 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house belonging to a local man Tariq Khan in the Boya Kalay area of North Waziristan. CIA alleged Tariq Khan to be a militant commander, however local testimony collected shortly after the attack identified all the casualties as a family. Locals, including a man…
Tappi (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Mar 2010
What Happened? 31 March 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house in the Tappi area of North Waziristan. The CIA alleged that it had targeted a compound of suspected militants. Media reports, including from the local journalist Noor Behram, confirm that the victims were the family of a local man named Zamir Gul, all…
New Adda Bazar (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Mar 2010
What Happened? 10 March 2010: A U.S. drone struck a combined house and a car in the New Adda Bazar area of North Waziristan. The CIA alleged that it had targeted militants of the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, however there has never been an independent inquiry on the nature of the casualties. A double-tap strike…
Danda Darpa Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack VI – Feb 2010
What Happened? 24 February 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house locally known as ‘Badar Markaz’. The Chinese newspaper Xinhua cited a local source saying that none of the casualties were militants, but were locals and civilians. A local photo journalist, Noor Behram, reported that a 10-year-old girl was killed in her home from…
Pai Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack II – Feb 2010
What Happened? 02 February 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted multiple cars in the Pai Khel area of North Waziristan, minutes after destroying multiple houses in the nearby towns of Degan and Muhammad Khel. It was alleged that all the casualties were militants. Eyewitnesses reported that the targeted cars did not belong to militants, which…
Tappi Ghundikala (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack III – Jan 2010
What Happened? 08 January 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a car that allegedly belonged to militants of the Taliban’s Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction. Western media reported that two foreigners and three locals were killed in this attack. The Pakistani lawyer Barrister Shahzad Akbar alleged that the casualties were exclusively civilians, identifying them as Akbar…
Sanzali (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Jan 2010
What Happened? 06 January 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house, described to be large and ‘fort-like’, in the Sanzali or Manza Ghandakai area of Datta Khel in North Waziristan Agency. The CIA alleged that it had targeted suspected militants belonging to the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group of the Taliban. The attack is reported…
Machi Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack II – Dec 2009
What Happened? 31 December 2009: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house in the Machi Khel area of North Waziristan Agency. The house belonged to a local journalist named Karim Khan. The CIA alleged that it had killed Al Qaeda militants, however the casualties were civilians and children including Khan’s 17-year-old son, Khan’s schoolteacher brother,…