Drone attack victims include Briton accused of targeting U.S.-bound planes!

I know Pakistan is training its army to shoot down American drones that are increasingly used in Waziristan. As long as the drones continue to be successful in killing militant leaders there use will continue and escelate!

The latest! A suspected U.S. missile strike killed the alleged ringleader of a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jets, Pakistani television and intelligence officers said on Saturday. Rashid Rauf, a British Islamist militant with links to al-Qaida, was among five victims of an attack launched by a suspected U.S. pilotless drone aircraft in the North Waziristan tribal region. Intelligence officers in the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Rauf, who escaped from custody outside an Islamabad court last December, had been killed. However, there was no official confirmation.

Rauf was the suspected ringleader of a 2006 plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners using liquid explosives. The plot, which was uncovered with the help of Pakistani intelligence, had the potential to kill on the scale of the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaida attacks. It resulted in tighter controls on cabin luggage hand-carried on board by air passengers worldwide. Rauf, who is of Pakistani origin, had traveled to Pakistan in 2002 after the murder of an uncle in Britain.

Family link to militant leader: His extradition was originally sought by Britain in connection with the murder. During his time in Pakistan, Rauf married a relative of one of Pakistan's most notorious militant leaders, Azhar Masood Azhar, the head of Jaish-e-Mohammad. While Jaish has been principally focussed on fighting in Indian Kashmir, some splinter groups joined al-Qaida's cause. The Pakistani authorities were embarrassed by Rauf's escape last year, and there was considerable speculation over the ease with which he made his getaway. The latest missile strike targeted a house near the town of Mir Ali, and came just two days after Pakistan lodged a protest with the U.S. ambassador over missile attacks on its territory

The plot continues to thicken, good luck Obama!.