Almost every day people die in Waziristan by U.S. drone attacks - the first time, organized a group of members of the resistance and dares to complain against the U.S.. To the annoyance of the Taliban. One eye and both legs. This is the price to be paid Sadaullah Wazir, 17,. That he lives in a part of the world as the "hotbed of terrorism" is and why the United States for a few years by drones lobbing rockets.Since Barack Obama took office, this happens more often. The Pakistani newspapers now report daily from the dead and injured in the tribal areas in western Pakistan. War is hell, this phrase was coined by the American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, more than a century, and Sadaullah Wazir has fallen into this hell, even though he has not chosen the war, never fought, never went into battle.
The war has come to him, on 7 September 2009, when he sat before the house of his family in the village Machikhel in the region of North Waziristan. A drone is flying on the day of the place, Wazir is the whirring sound familiar, every few days, he is reviewing such a thing in the sky. It is evening in the month of Ramadan, most family members have retreated into the house of prayer.
After the prayer, they want to break the fast together. Wazir still enjoys the last rays of the sun and stays out. Suddenly, it hisses, the drone fired a missile and hits the house of the Wazir. The young man jumps up and wants to rush to the aid of his family, as the building collapses.
Wazir's there just outside the entrance. A wall collapsed on him and cut off both legs, a splinter torn his eye. Two uncles and a cousin die in the inferno. War is always a propaganda war the next day the newspapers, are in North Waziristan "several terrorists have been killed by a drone attack." There are always "terrorists" and "militants" and "extremists" who are being killed according to reports, never civilians.
War is always a propaganda war. Together with a dozen other victims will Wazir defend himself now. He has joined the action by Karim Khan, 43, a man who was barely four months after the Wazir the target of an attack drone in the same village and lost his son and his brother. Ten other people want to support Waziristan Khan, all people who have relatives in the verln drone attacks.
For example, the 14-year-old Fahim Qureshi, on 23 January 2009 lost his left eye, suffered a fractured skull and was hit by several fragments in the abdomen. In that attack was said to have been killed Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the most wanted terrorist in the world. That turned out to be a hoax later, the seven dead were ordinary people, members of Qureshi.
Waziristan, a barren, mountainous region on the border with Afghanistan, is considered a refuge for extremists. The Pakistani government has no influence here, militias, tribal leaders and extremists ensure order in their favor. As Allied troops after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 invaded Afghanistan, many Taliban fighters fled across the border in this region.
Only eight years later, under pressure from Washington, Pakistan's army launched an offensive in South Waziristan, since then the hideouts of the extremists concentrated in the northern part. If and when it will be a military operation there, is open. CIA drone holds inserts for "precise, legally and effectively," But why are all the people in Waziristan enemies? Is there such a thing as war guilt by association? And we must fire rockets into civilian homes? Experts doubt the legitimacy of the American action in Pakistan.
Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur for independent non-judicial executions, calls for the U.S. may disclose its rules for the use of drones, numbers to call civilian victims and prove that a different path than the non-fatal attacks from the air is viable. So far, it manifests itself in Washington to the drone missions with caution.
It simply means that one is relying on this weapon to get in the war in Afghanistan, not even pressure of militants from Pakistani territory. A CIA spokesman said recently that "the CIA's actions against terrorists" are "precise, legally and effectively." The Secret Service prides itself to have killed several high-level attacks by drones extremists, including the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
Pakistan's government protested formally, the drones from operations, but they secretly authorized the flights, as also confirmed by the published by the unveiling platform WikiLeaks U.S. embassy dispatches. It provides information on the Americans, even the possible positions of terrorists - that is, the target coordinates.
"We are free to shoot down just because we live in a region that is considered evil?" Asks Khan. He is the first party having dared to oppose the CIA. The responsible use of the drones. It is a remarkable scenario: a dozen brave, simple people, mostly illiterate, against the intelligence of the United States of America.
The action is a first counter-attack by a few villagers against the CIA. Khan in December with his lawyer Shahzad Akbar is also organizing a protest outside the parliament building in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. The Pakistani press picked up on the subject, the people discovered in Waziristan on Khan and his lawyer.
The group of plaintiffs was formed. Soon they will also demonstrate in Waziristan. Extremists win new supporters by missiles Khan is also achieved something which it was to the attention of those in power in Washington: He found out the name of the CIA bureau chief in Islamabad and called him in his application.
Jonathan Banks was immediately withdrawn from Pakistan. The identity of the local CIA chief is one of the best kept secrets at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. How could they bring in experience and Khan accuse him next to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and CIA director Leon Panetta name? Even American diplomats suspect that Pakistan's ISI had his finger in the game.
Akbar lawyer wants to challenge the action of the drones victims first, before a civil court in Islamabad - and leave in the event of a success to enforce it in the U.S.. "The demand of 500 million dollars per death is certainly set very high," he admits. "The point is that my clients receive at the end of adequate remuneration to ensure that they were victims of U.S.
policy, just because they live in a region where the U.S. fight against extremists." If you listen to these people, they're doing, but also try to focus the world attention to their fate. In other words: a question of turning points in the propaganda war. Unexpectedly, it has opened a second front: extremists in Waziristan threatening the plaintiff.
They have already arranged with the rocket fire, mostly live in caves without, largely on cars, change regularly their whereabouts. The militants benefit in gruesome ways by the drone missions: After each attack, in which innocent civilians die, they win their relatives as supporters - including candidates for suicide attacks.
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