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CIA has no plans to suspend drone strikes: report
[Dawn] According to a report in the Washington Post, US defense officials have claimed that there is no plan to suspend or restrict the CIA's drone campaign in Pakistain, and that the agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of Pakistain.US and Pakistain's relationship was the focus of a nearly four-hour meeting Monday at the CIA headquarters between agency director Leon E. Panetta and Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. The report stated that during the meeting, Panetta said that he has an obligation to protect the American people and was responsible for national security and therefore he had no plans to call an end to the drone strikes in Pakistain and nor was he planning to alter their frequency. However, The over-used However... the CIA agreed to reveal more about its operatives and their activities in Pakistain but said that it would offer no information on the under-cover personnel. The report also clearly stated that Raymond Davis was a CIA agent who was in Pakistain to spy on the country's nuclear program and find information on faceless myrmidons groups. It was agreed in the meetings that efforts would continue to be made to reduce tensions in the Pak-US relationship. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-14 |
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