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| Lull in drone strikes has emboldened militants: NYT |
| 2012-01-10 |
| [Dawn] A nearly two-month lull in American drone strikes in Pakistain has helped embolden Al Qaeda and several Pak orc factions to regroup, increase attacks on Pak security forces and threaten intensified strikes against allied forces in Afghanistan, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Sunday citing US and Pak officials. The Death Eaters are increasingly taking advantage of tensions raised by an American air strike in November that killed 24 Pak soldiers in two border outposts, plunging relations between the two countries to new depths. The Central Intelligence Agency, hoping to avoid making matters worse while Pakistain completes a wide-ranging review of its security relationship with the United States, has not conducted a drone strike since mid-November, the newspaper said. Over all, drone strikes in Pakistain dropped to 64 last year, compared with 117 in 2010, according to The Long War Journal, a website that monitors the attacks. Analysts attribute the decrease to a dwindling number of senior Al Qaeda leaders and a pause in strikes last year after the arrest in January of Raymond Davis, a CIA security contractor who killed two Paks in Lahore; the Navy Seal raid in May that killed Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden; ... who went shovel-ready... and the American Diplomats and intelligence analysts say the pause in CIA missile strikes -- the longest in Pakistain in more than three years -- is offering for now greater freedom of movement to an insurgency that had been splintered by in-fighting and battered by American drone attacks in recent months. Several feuding factions said last week that they were patching up their differences, at least temporarily, to improve their image after a series of kidnappings and, by some accounts, to focus on fighting Americans in Afghanistan. Other orc groups continue attacking Pak forces. Just last week, Taliban Death Eaters killed 15 security soldiers who had been kidnapped in retaliation for the death of a orc commander, the newspaper said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Get in a little leg stretch for a couple months then its hunker-down time again in Operation Whack-A-Mole. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2012-01-10 15:47 |
| #1 Enjoy your sovereignty. |
| Posted by: Cluque Untervehr3229 2012-01-10 02:08 |