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Amid a deepening political crisis in Pakistan and growing popular unrest over US missile strikes and mercenaries, it has been revealed that over the past five years US special operations troops have conducted a number of clandestine cross-border raids into the country's tribal areas.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/paki-d24.shtml


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A senior U.S. diplomat hinted at a separate agreement that would allow the U.S. itself to take on some of the hidden war against Pakistan's militants.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091220/ap_on_an/as_us_pakistan_analysis



US Forces Mounted Secret Pakistan Raids in Hunt for al-Qaida

By Declan Walsh in Islamabad

US special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Washington is pressing to expand its drone assassination programme.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24239.htm



Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad

By Eric Margolis

Now, in a delicious irony, Washington is finally getting the democracy it has been calling for in Pakistan - and it's the Mother of all Backfires.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24259.htm


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Chasing Shadows In Pakistan

By Iftekhar A Khan

The hawks of the military industrial complex and national security advisers who war-game with public lives and resources in alien lands dictate US policies. Would Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of Hellfire missiles and General Atomics, manufacturer of Predator and Reaper drones that fire these missiles want the war to end?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24213.htm



US attack kills 16 people in Pakistan

Local officials were quoted as saying that around 5:45 p.m., 10 missiles were fired at two compounds in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan tribal regency.

http://snipurl.com/tqoe9



US drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents

One of America's most sophisticated weapons in the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the unmanned drone, has been successfully penetrated by insurgents using software available on the internet for $26 (£16).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-american-drones-hacked



Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes

Militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft - from traditional fighters and bombers to unmanned spy planes. The problem is in the process of being addressed. But for now, an enormous security breach is even larger than previously thought.

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US attacks in Pakistan kill at least 20 people

US drones launched missiles into North Waziristan in Pakistan in a barrage of attacks Thursday and Friday. It was one of the largest such attacks in the controversial program the Obama administration has continued and intensified.

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Drone war on Taliban stalls as groups move out of tribal areas into heart of Pakistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9233/



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Fox News

12/03/09

The White House has approved an expansion of the CIA’s drone program in Pakistan, the New York Times reported. The Obama administration reportedly is talking with Pakistan about expanding the program from Waziristan to Baluchistan, a controversial move since it is outside the tribal areas. Baluchistan is where Afghan Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US attack kills three people in Pakistan: officials

The New York Times on Friday reported that the The White House had authorised the CIA to expand the use of unmanned aerial drones in Pakistan to track down and strike suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda members.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091208/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwestmissile



Afghans protest after civilian killed in US-led raid

Hundreds of Afghans have held anti-US and anti-government demonstrations against a recent US-led attack which reportedly claimed the lives of 15 non-combatants.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113185&sectionid=351020403



Afghan government says occupation force killed six civilians

NATO officials on Tuesday disputed a report by the Afghan government that a NATO raid in eastern Afghanistan earlier in the day had killed six civilians, saying only seven militants died in the operation.

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Pakistan Rebuffs US on Taliban Crackdown
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14-11



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Obgleich die US-Regierung die Kooperation mit dem berüchtigten Söldnerunternehmen einstellen wollte, sollen Pentagon und CIA dieses weiter für geheime Operationen beauftragen.

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The US drone attacked twice North Waziristan leaving 11 dead and many injured on Friday.

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Flying Blind

Winslow Myers, Truthout: "Predator drones kill al-Qaeda leaders without risk to American soldiers; dangerous plotters of terror are efficiently annihilated; and those not yet killed are kept off-balance, in a constant state of fear. What's not to like? For starters, the moral indecency of it."

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Urging the across-the-board disarmament of the Pakistan-based US officials and military personnel as well as prosecution of alleged subversive elements, the party's Punjab President, Hashim Shaukat Khan said the Interior Ministry let 200 Blackwater staffers enter Pakistan without clearing the customs "under American pressure," the newspaper added.

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A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a compound being used by suspected Taliban militants in a village near Mir Ali in North Waziristan, according to two intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.

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At least four suspected militants were killed and five others wounded in a suspected United States drone missile strike in North Waziristan tribal agency, local TV channel reported Thursday.

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