What Really Happened in Bajaur?

Comment: There are conflicting reports about what really happened in Bajaur. Following stories are more credible given the stature of their authors:

1. The Bajaur tragedy
By Rahimullah Yusufzai: The News, November 4, 2006

It must be the first incident of its kind that an educational institution full of students has been bombed during the night on the pretext that military training was being imparted there and some wanted people could be hiding in its overcrowded rooms. Killing 80 persons, or 83 if we believe the three young, seriously injured survivors, would have brought down governments in truly democratic countries but nothing of the sort is going to happen in military-ruled Pakistan, where the government appears unconvincing while trying to justify the extrajudicial murders of civilians as young as seven-years-old. The Bajaur tragedy, enacted in a small seminary in Chingai village in the Mamond area of Bajaur agency on the morning of October 30, will surely go down as one of the most ill-advised and provocative acts in the US-led war on terror.
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2. Predator carried out Bajaur strike
By Khalid Hasan: Daily Times, November 4, 2006

WASHINGTON: The Bajaur airstrike, which occurred around dawn, as people in the camp were preparing for their morning prayers, was conducted by a US Predator and also involved the use of helicopters, according to the well-informed and generally reliable blog, Counterterrorism.org.

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