Tag: Drone attack
Musakki (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Nov 2005
What Happened? 05 November 2005: A U.S. drone missile struck the house of a Abu Hamza Rabia in the Musakki area (outside Mir Ali) in North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan. Rabia was an Al-Qaeda leader of Egyptian origin, widely considered to be Al-Qaeda’s third-in-command. Rabia was only injured in this attack, but his wife and…
Tori Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – May 2005
What Happened? 08 May 2005: A U.S. drone missile targeted a car in the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas. The victims included Haitham Al-Yemeni, an al-Qaeda leader connected to Osama Bin Laden, and an aide named Sami Ullah Khan. This is the first known U.S. drone attack in North Waziristan Agency.…
Wana (S. Waziristan) Drone Attack I – Jun 2004
What Happened? 18 June 2005: A U.S. drone missile struck a house in a hamlet of Shah Nawaz Kot in the South Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s federally administered tribal area (FATA). The attack is reported to have killed a Nek Muhammad and four of his companions. Nek was an Afghan militant with ties to the…
Mamozai (Kurram Agency) Drone Attack – Jan 2018
What Happened? 24 January 2018: US drone missiles struck an Afghan refugee camp in the Speen Thal Dapa Mamozai area of Kurram Agency. The Pakistani Foreign Office (FO) issued a statement condemning the strike “carried out by the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) this morning, which targeted an Afghan refugee camp” Despite targeting a refugee camp,…
Ghoz Garhi II (Kurram Agency) Drone Attack – Nov 2017
What Happened? 30 November 2017: A US drone missile struck a house in the Ghoz Garhi area of Upper Kurram, killing at least four people. Pakistani intelligence officials said that two missiles were dropped on a compound, killing four people including a Haqqani Network commander, Abdur Rasheed Haqqani. References Reuters. (2017). Suspected U.S. drone targets…
Dand Patan (Paktia) Drone Attack – Oct 2017
What Happened? 17 October 2010: A U.S. drone missile struck an unknown structure in Dand Patan area of Paktia Province in Afghanistan. The attack is reported to have killed 6 ‘suspected militants’ and plumes of smoke were reported by eyewitnesses from Pakistan’s Kharlachi area. Local sources report that the commander of the militant group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar…
Ghozgarhi Madrassa (Kurram Agency) Drone Attack – Oct 2017
Date: 16/10/2017 Location: Kurram Agency, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 14+ killed What Happened? 16 October 2017: Multiple U.S. drone missiles struck a reported seminary in the Ghozgarhi area of Lower Kurram Agency killed at least 14 people, while a local eyewitness reports at least 17 deaths. The local administration procured 20 coffins from…
“My Father Wasn’t a Terrorist” – First Ever Eyewitness Accounts of 2 U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan
Skip to the eyewitness accounts here. On 14th December 2013, a U.S. drone missile struck a fishing boat on the Kabul River in the Loi Shalman area of Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area. The news was broken that a U.S. Predator attack had killed five ‘suspected militants’. A safe phrasing that gave the U.S. plausible deniability…
An Introduction to One Minute Massacres (OMM): Pakistan
Get Started: One Minute Massacres Core Map (Pakistan) Between 2001 – 2021, the United States targeted mosques, madrassas (schools), markets, funeral processions, and homes in Pakistan’s seven tribal agencies (FATA) with precision drone strikes. The playbook was always the same – the Pentagon would refute any attack, while Western media, such as Associated Press, Agence…
Makin (S. Waziristan Agency) Drone Attack II – Jun 2009
Date: 23/06/2009 Location: South Waziristan Agency, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 23 June 2009: Possibly multiple U.S. drone missiles failed to hit vehicles filled with people as they escaped from the Makin Funeral Massacre that had killed dozens of people. This is a failed attack that yielded no casualties; therefore,…