How Pakistan Helps The U.S. Drone Campaign

Exclusive: How Pakistan Helps The U.S. Drone Campaign -- Yahoo News/Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signaled that the U.S.-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions.

The Jan 10 strike -- and its follow-up two days later -- were joint operations, a Pakistani security source based in the tribal areas told Reuters.

They made use of Pakistani "spotters" on the ground and demonstrated a level of coordination that both sides have sought to downplay since tensions erupted in January 2011 with the killing of two Pakistanis by a CIA contractor in Lahore.

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My Comment: This news story makes sense. For US drone strikes to be successful, you need spies, informers, and spotters on the ground. Who better to provide it than the Pakistani military/intelligence services themselves. The problem is .... who is targeted. There are many terror leaders that the U.S. wants dead, but Pakistan has made it very clear that they other plans for these individuals, and meeting American military retribution is not one of them.