|
US to expand drone attacks into Pakistani cities
Press
TV
Monday, Dec 14th, 2009
After confirmation that the CIA has been operating
drone strikes in Pakistani territory, a new report says the
US is seeking to expand the attacks into the country's cities.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that top US officials
were pushing to expand the air strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal
region and into the major city of Quetta to allegedly target
the Taliban.
Although the US and Pakistan have long been denying that the
drones were taking off from Pakistani soil, the CIA confirmed
on Saturday that US security contractor Xe Services, formerly
known as Blackwater, has been helping the agency to launch the
attacks from within Pakistan.
CIA spokesman George Little quoted spy agency Director Leon
Panetta as saying that US has been launching the attacks from
secret airfields in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The new revelations also contradicted earlier US assertions
that the notorious private security company does not operate
in Pakistan.
Beside that, the Islamabad government and Blackwater itself
had denied that the company was operating in the country.
The US claims that main Taliban leaders including Mullah Mohammed
Omar fled to Pakistan's Quetta after the US-led invasion of
Afghanistan in 2001.
Last month, a Pakistani military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar
Abbas rejected the presence of the Taliban leadership in Quetta,
saying that US officials are making such claims just to cover
their failures in Afghanistan.
The administration of President Barack Obama who has intensified
the attacks in Pakistan says the raids are to target militants
but local Pakistani media say that civilians are the main victims.
New US aircraft strikes in Quetta city with population of 850,000
under the pretext of targeting the Taliban could sharply increase
civilian fatalities.
If drone attacks, now confined to small villages, were to be
mounted in a sizable city, the death rate of innocent bystanders
would probably increase, the report concluded.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
- Fall Of The Republic - Buy
the DVD here
|
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
|
|
