Qualified for the U.S. Air Permit Murder By CIA In Pakistan

U.S. soldiers in a flight training 
session drones, the Predator, which 
has claimed the lives of hundreds of 
civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

WASHINGTON - The White House has authorized the CIA to expand the use of drones in Pakistan, the United States argued that the use of drones is done to track and hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda, as reported by the New York Times on on Friday.

Quoted a number of sources, The Times said that permission to develop the use of CIA drones in Pakistan's tribal areas was revealed this week, coinciding with the announcement of President Barack Obama on sending 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.

Washington also has spoken with Pakistani officials about the use of drones to carry out drone attacks in Baluchistan, a vast region located in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and Iran. The Times added that the Taliban leadership is believed to be in the area.

Analysts, intelligence agencies and foreign officials say that Taliban fighters use Baluchistan as a base, crossing the border into Afghanistan and from Kandahar.

Pakistan tribal region, located in the northwest of the country has been the target of a U.S. attack, which sparked even more anti-American sentiment in Muslim countries that have nuclear weapons, since Obama took office.

The U.S. military does not confirm drone attacks, which according to the U.S. officials, had killed a number of militants helm, but Islamabad against sending unmanned aircraft and declared it a violation of state sovereignty.

U.S. drone attacks claimed hundreds of lives of Pakistani civilians. However, a U.S. government official said that the number of civilian deaths is not true. He added that about 80 missile strikes launched by drones in less than two years has been "killed more than 400 militants".

The official gave a lower figure than the estimates in general. "We are confident that the number of civilian casualties was little more than the 20 people., And those people are the ones who are with the terrorists or the big fish were in the room used by the terrorists."

The claim, which according to the official statement reflects the ability of unmanned Predator aircraft to spin above the target and record video for hours before and after the attack, apparently carried out under the examination of the human rights lawyer.

Tom Parker, policy director at Amnesty Internasonal anti terror, saying that he was impossible to estimate. He added that the estimate of the attacks carried out in the past usually skip the number of civilian victims.

The Obama administration has been carrying drone attack CIA in an amount far more than the era of President Bush. Political consensus in support of the drone program has blurred how radical program. For the first time in history, a civilian intelligence agencies use robots to carry out a military mission, selecting and determining the targets to be killed in a country, where the United States is actually not officially at war.

A few months after the events of 11 September 2001, CIA officials are not too fond of the idea of ​​killing U.S. targets from a distance by means of control such as video games. But they become more like the program when it has been shown to kill targets more effectively, including Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

"The war drone which was pioneered by the CIA in Pakistan, and the U.S. Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the beginning of a wave of long-distance war that will raise many questions in terms of legality, morality, and politics from around the world," said PW Singer, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, which also is the author of "Wired for War."

Source:  Reuters

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