The killing spree

TWELVE more people have died and many others wounded as a result of the US missile strike that destroyed a residential compound and a primary school on the outskirts of Miranshah in North Waziristan on Friday. It is shocking to learn about the death of six security personnel along with the rest. This is the fifth crossborder attack in just two weeks and lends credibility to the reports indicating that the US had extended its War to Pakistan's tribal region. Recently a report published in The New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had authorized such raids inside Pakistani territory and that its tribal areas were now treated as a war zone. The statement by US JCS Chairman Adm Mike Mullen just the other day also made it clear that a new strategy had been chalked out to take the war across the border.