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Topic started on 24-12-2011 @ 04:27 AM by this_is_who_we_are

CIA Has Suspended Drone Attacks In Pakistan, U.S. Officials Say
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
December 23, 2011, 4:48 p.m.

The undeclared halt in CIA attacks in Pakistan, now in its sixth week, aims at reversing a sharp erosion in trust after deadly incidents, including the mistaken attack on soldiers by U.S. gunships.


A Pakistani security officer examines a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed in the town of Chaman near the Afghan border in August. (Asghar Achakzai, AFP/Getty Images / December 23, 2011)

In an effort to mend badly frayed relations with Pakistan, the CIA has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants believed to be involved in cross-border attacks on U.S. troops or facilities in Afghanistan, current and former U.S. officials say.

The undeclared halt in CIA attacks, now in its sixth week, is aimed at reversing a sharp erosion of trust after a series of deadly incidents, including the mistaken attack by U.S. gunships that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month.

The pause also comes amid an intensifying debate in the Obama administration over the future of the CIA's covert drone war in Pakistan. The agency has killed dozens of Al Qaeda operatives and hundreds of low-ranking fighters there since the first Predator strike in 2004, but the program has infuriated many Pakistanis.
www.latimes.com...


I wonder what the real story is behind the suspension of the [U.S. Sponsored Terror] drone attacks. There must be something going on we're not privy to, and it probably isn't good.

- PS

Dig those nifty bird-like drones.

edit on 12/24/2011 by this_is_who_we_are because: link

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