Tag: Undocumented
Danda Darpa Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – November 2007
What Happened? 2 November 2007: Two U.S. drone missiles struck an alleged ‘compound’ in the Danda Darpa Khel area of Miranshah, North Waziristan Agency’s capital. The ‘compound’ was located close to a religious madrassa with links to the Haqqani Network. A report from a Pakistani news agency, Dawn indicates that those killed were militants related…
Mami Rogha (N. Waziristan) School Massacre – Jun 2007
What Happened? 19 June 2007: Multiple U.S. drone missiles struck a school and adjoining homes in the Mami Rogha area of North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan. The attack is reported to have killed 34+ people. A prominent local journalist, Rahimullah Yousafzai, was cited by the Washington Post as an eyewitness to the attack. Yousafzai testified…
Zarghar Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – May 2007
What Happened? 22 May 2007: A leaked U.S. intelligence document in 2013 reported of a 2007 drone attack that struck an alleged ‘military training camp’ in the Zargar Khel area of North Waziristan. While the CIA claimed that the attack had killed militants, local eyewitnesses at the time disputed that those killed were locals and…
Zamozola Shaktoi (S. Waziristan) Air Strike – Jan 2007
What Happened? 16 January 2007: A U.S. drone missile struck a home in the Zamozola area of Shaktoi in South Waziristan. The drone attack killed at least 7 civilians and 1 child. Eyewitness testimony shows that those killed were local woodcutters. An eyewitness spoke to the Pakistani The News shortly after the attack: “I spoke…
Saidgi (N. Waziristan) Helicopter Raid – Jan 2006
What Happened? 06 January 2006: A pair of U.S. gunships attacked a home in Saidgi Area of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal agency. At least 2 children and 2 women are reported to have been killed in this raid. Three alleged militants were also killed in this attack. An eyewitness reported having seen several U.S. soldiers,…
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,…
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,…