VOA: US Drone Strike in Pakistan Renews Calls for Transparency
WASHINGTON—The strike was unprecedented.
For the first time, a U.S. drone struck Pakistan outside its lawless border area with Afghanistan, killing the leader of the Afghan Taliban in the country’s southwestern province of Baluchistan.
“It would have been better if Pakistan had targeted him inside its own territory,” Pakistani government employee Umair Khan told VOA. “It’s against the law for the U.S. to target him in our country.”
Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen — the United States has not hesitated to target terrorist targets when and where it deems fit.
In Pakistan alone, the U.S. has carried out 391 air strikes since 2008, according to The Long War Journal. In Yemen, U.S. strikes targeting al-Qaida commanders total 145 since 2002.
The figures are based on press reports.
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WNU Editor: President Obama has promised that there will be more transparency on the reasons/rules of engagement/and those who have been targeted in the past .... in short .... a full disclosure at some future date. What the administration will release remains to be seen .... but using the past and guided by my own experience .... I am sceptical that anything of value will be released.
He wasn't promising anything just predicting that given the sieve like security in evidence these days, someone will release the information in a totally unauthorized fashion thus making the program, in retrospect, move visible to the public.
ReplyDeleteThe woman in the picture is pretty but vapid. No callouses on her hands.
ReplyDeleteShe probably does not have square shoulders either.
So why listen to her screech?