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Originally Posted by Rekna
being that I have no idea what munitions those drones can and do fire I can't really comment on the authenticity. Do we know for a fact what type of munition was fired from the drone? and if so can someone post a picture of that kind of munition? I'm not going to take either story at face value. We however do know that once again some innocent people were killed in one of our bombings. Is this from the pakistan bombing where we fired into a soverign country? If someone missles into one of our border towns we would take it as an act of war.
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Seaver pretty much nailed it. The picture shows an artillery shell. Drones do not carry art shells, but rather Hellfire missles. Thus, the dumbass reporter and photographer swallowed as whole what these Pakastanis in the pic claimed: that is was from the drone bombing this past weekend. Not once did the NYT question it, which in and of itself is telling on the standards they are willing to accept if it hurts this admins policies.
That said, this is just another classic CIA fuckup. The villagers claimed that they had seen the drone flying around for a couple of days beforehand. Thus, any experienced guerilla leader like al Zawahiri isnt going to dinner with some friends, but rather, he'll hunker down in a cave and wait it out.