
“Barely able to walk even with a cane, Ghulam Rasool says he padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and fled his mountain home in the middle of the night to escape relentless airstrikes from U.S. drones targeting militants in this remote corner of Afghanistan. Rasool and other Afghan villagers have their own name for Predator drones. They call them benghai, which in the Pashto language means the ‘buzzing of flies.’ When they explain the noise, they scrunch their faces and try to make a sound that resembles an army of flies.”
http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-villagers-flee-homes-blame-us-drones-061922800.html
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