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\n<\/span><\/p>\nTribal leaders in the Pakistani region of North Waziristan have vowed revenge against the US after drones killed more than 40 people near the Afghan border.<\/p>\n
“We are a people who wait 100 years to exact revenge. We never forgive our enemy,” the elders said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s attack has caused fury – most of the dead were tribal elders and police attending an open-air meeting.<\/p>\n
Observers say anger over the botched drone raid may help Pakistan delay an assault on the Taliban in Waziristan. <\/p>\n
The Pakistani military has so far resisted US pressure for such an assault. It is already fighting militants in a number of other parts of the country’s north-west.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says Thursday’s casualties will also add to pressure from Islamabad on the US to scale back drone strikes which regularly target Waziristan. <\/p>\n
The area is an al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold and a launch pad for frequent attacks on US-led forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
But the strikes are hugely unpopular in Pakistan. The latest one comes at a time of rising tension after the CIA contractor Raymond Davis was acquitted of murdering two men in Lahore.<\/p>\n
“The world should try and find out how many of the 40-odd people killed in the drone attack were members of al-Qaeda,” the elders said in their statement following the attack near North Waziristan’s regional capital, Miranshah.<\/p>\n
“It was just a jirga being held under local customs in which the prominent elders of Datta Khel sub-division, and common people were participating to resolve a dispute.<\/p>\n
“But the Americans did not spare our elders even.<\/p>\n
“Today we declare that we have issued permission to our people to carry out fidayeen attacks [suicide missions] against the Americans. God willing, we will avenge our dead.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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