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Forex: Drone Attacks To Continue In Pakistan: Senator Kerry (RTTNews) - With the Al-Qaida on the run following the success of the U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's lawless Waziristan tribal region in the northwest, an influential American Senator has said the CIA-run program with remote-controlled aircraft would continue. Speaking on Afghanistan at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington-based think-tank, Democratic Senator John Kerry said that he was convinced that it (drone attacks) is "highly circumscribed now, very carefully controlled within a hierarchy of decision-making, significantly limited in its collateral damage, and profoundly successful in the impact it has had in putting Al-Qaida on the run." Kerry, who is the co-architect of the USD 7.5 billion non-military aid to Pakistan, said 14 of the 20 top Al-Qaida leaders were eliminated in the strikes in the tribal region. "And it is why Al-Qaida is, to some degree, on the run and defensive. And I think it's important for people to know that they are," he said. However, he warned that it doesn't mean they are not dangerous anymore and that they're not plotting. Noting that the U.S. disrupted a plot September 11 eve, he said that was the reason why Yemen and Somalia and other parts of the world are still going to require U.S. vigilance and diligence. Pakistan has been opposing to drone attacks in the region, saying it infringed its sovereignty. Since August 2008, around 70 strikes by unmanned aircraft have killed close to 600 persons, including over 400 militants in northwestern Pakistan. Responding to a question after his speech, Kerry said Pakistan can become an epicenter of terrorism, if steps are not taken now. "This can become the epicenter: the Haqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Islamic Jihad--the various groups that are there, and the hedges that still take place because of the India and Pakistan relationship that has not yet transformed to modernity. There are realities that we have to continue to deal with," Kerry said. The Democratic Senator also favored more financial assistance to Pakistan, saying "if the U.S. puts much more effort into Islamabad's ability to transition to make Waziristan a success, Swat Valley a success and, ultimately, to actually incorporate the western part of their country more formally into the nation than it has been at any time in the nation's existence, then there is a better chance of limiting Al-Qaida and protecting U.S. interests. |
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