Islamabad: At least 31 people have become the victim of US controversial strikes in three days in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan.
In Yemen, a US drone killed seven people on Monday. The drone fired missiles on a convoy of three cars near the Radda town of Bayda province, but missed its target despite killing seven people.
The target of the strike was al-Qaeda’s leader in Bayda province, Qaed al-Dahab, and his brother, both of whom escaped uninjured, a local official told Press TV.
In Pakistan on Monday, two separate US drone attacks killed at least twelve people in Miranshah, North Waziristan.
The number of US drone strikes has grown rapidly over the past week in Pakistan. At least 31 people have been killed in five drone attacks since Wednesday—five on Wednesday, ten on Thursday, four on Saturday, and twelve on Monday.
In Afghanistan on Sunday, US attack helicopters launched an airstrike that wiped out an entire family of eight.
A spokesman for the governor of Paktia province said Mohammad Shafi, his wife, and their six children died in an airstrike late on Saturday in the village of Suri Khail in the Gurda Saria district.
“Shafi was not a Taliban. He was not in any opposition group against the government. He was a villager,” the official said. “Right now, we are working on this case to find out the ages of their children and how many of them are boys and girls.”
The US is conducting airstrikes with warplanes, attack helicopters, and drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
There is a wide outrage among the people against US terror strikes. Most people in Pakistan think civilians have been the main victims of the attacks, a claim that has very strong evidences. The UN has called the US drone attacks targeted killings that flout international law.
On the other hand the US claims that its airstrikes target militants. =
On January 31, President Barack Obama confirmed that the US uses the unmanned drones in Pakistan and other countries.
In reply to questions about the use of the assassination drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, the US president said, “a lot of these strikes have been in the FATA” — Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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