Malik Jalal, a Pakistani tribal elder and member of the North Waziristan Peace Committee, in his own words:

I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me...

My friends began to decline my invitations, afraid that dinner might be interrupted by a missile. I took to the habit of sleeping under the trees, well above my home, to avoid acting as a magnet of death for my whole family...

Please stop terrorizing my wife and children. And take me off that Kill List.