Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Anybody Got Any Drones They Want to Declare?

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. drones launched two missile attacks on Taliban targets in the South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least 45 militants in the latest in a barrage of strikes close to the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.


"Suspected U.S. drones..." This construction doesn't make much sense to me. Are there other drones flying around Pakistani airspace? Are the skies above Waziristan full of robot airplanes of questionable nationality*? If we are meant to suspect the origin of the missile strikes, then a different wording would be more appropriate and less confusing. Perhaps:

"Two missile attacks on Taliban targets in the South Waziristan tribal region killed at least 45 militants, according to intelligence officials. The missiles may have been fired by U.S. drones being operated in cooperation with Pakistani military efforts to weaken the..." etc, etc, etc.

As it is now, I am left to wonder when the suspected drones will be brought in for questioning, and possibly charged with some crime.

* I bet it was those sheisty Libyans. Those sketchy cobags are constantly sending invisible drones around to check up on me. THERE'S ONE NOW! No, wait, it's gone.

3 comments:

mdh said...

Does it mean the drones are suspects in a crime?

Or were the drones seen hanging out smoking blunts and looking shady in front of the Cirle K a lot lately?

Maybe they were black, and Fit The Description of some drones seen in the area earlier?

Skynet Drone said...

Nothing to see here, move along...

Chuckles said...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the war against the machines starts without the nukes. It may be harder to recruit an effective army without the nukes.