Thousands of Protesters Tear-Gassed After US Airstrike Deaths in Pakistan

Thousands of Protesters Tear-Gassed After US Airstrike Deaths in Pakistan

I have to agree with them; The US military had no right to act this way.


Thousands of Protesters Tear-Gassed After US Airstrike Deaths in Pakistan

Pakistani police tear-gassed tribesmen who burned down a US-funded aid agency office after the deaths of 18 villagers in an airstrike targeting Al-Qaeda's number two, witnesses said.

'A FRIEND OF THE AMERICANS IS A TRAITOR'
Pakistani tribesmen march on a street in Inayat Killi village near Damadola, 200 km (124 miles) northwest of Islamabad, to protest against an airstrike in Damadola, January 14, 2006. A U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeted al Qaeda's second-in-command, U.S. sources said, but Ayman al-Zawahri was away at the time, according to a senior Pakistani official on Saturday. The strike on Friday killed at least 18 people, including women and children, and three houses were destroyed in a village near the Afghan border, residents said. Pakistan condemned the airstrike and would summon the U.S. ambassador to protest the attack, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. He had no information about Zawahri. REUTERS/Ali ImamAn estimated 5,000 people had gathered at a stadium near Khar, the main town in the Bajur tribal zone, close to the village of Damadola where Friday's attack happened, an AFP reporter said on Saturday.
Some demonstrators set fire to the offices of Associated Development Construction, a non-governmental organisation funded by the US Agency for International Development, an official at the aid group said.

"They have attacked our office in reaction to the deaths on Friday and put it on fire, it is badly damaged," site engineer Fazal Maibood told AFP