By Alex Rodriguez and Zulfiqar Ali, Los Angeles Times.
On August 24, 2012 a U.S. drone that was hovering over the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan shot a missile from above and killed 18 people. The whole point of this strike was to attack two Taliban groups that were settled in that area. It was supposed to destroy some vehicles that the Taliban groups had, but since there were other civilians in that area, it is not clear who was killed. The foreign ministry speaker of Pakistan said that these drone attacks are illegal by the U.S. and it dangers the lives of innocent people not involved in these terrorist groups. Knowing that America is trying to stop terrorism, these events that took place in Pakistan make sense. However, the citizens living in the area that got hit do not understand why all this is happening. From their perspective it is an attack on them which causes hatred towards foreign countries, in this case America. No person wants a foreign nation bombing their country when they have not done anything to them. When people do not know the full story and what is going on, they interpret the situation in a different way, causing even more tension within a country.
The name of the newspaper needs to be in italics.
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