The strikes drew a sharp rebuke of a Pakistani Government that is more and more public in his secret criticism of the role of the CIA in his country.
"Pakistan strongly condemns the attack drone," according to a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, who said that he had lodged a "strong protest" with the Ambassador of the United States, P. Cameron Munter. "We have repeatedly said that these attacks are counterproductive and only contribute to strengthen the hands of terrorists."
On Monday, the head of the Agency spy chief in Pakistan, lieutenant-general Ahmed Shuja Pasha, met the Director of the C.I.A., Leon e. Panetta and Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the joint staff, to try to resolve the tensions between the two allies to fight against terrorismmost recently on the arrest in Pakistan of Raymond a. Davis, a security officer C.I.A. who killed two Pakistani men in January in what he said was an attempted robbery.
After the meeting, us and Pakistani officials said demand from that Pakistan advance notice of missile attacks of the C.I.A., for less than strikes on everything, and a more comprehensive accountability of agents of the C.I.A. and entrepreneurs working in Pakistan "is being talked about." The US official added: "the essential is that the wives of cooperation are essential for the safety of the two nations."? "The stakes are too high."
But the timing of strikes Wednesday served to make angry Pakistani officials and raised the question of whether Pakistan would retaliate by stopping lines of American supply of Pakistan, in Afghanistan, where he had done in previous conflicts.
Drone attack has been widely interpreted by agency spy chief of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, as a deliberate effort by Washington to embarrass the country. "If the message has been undertaken will continue as usual, it was a crude way to send," said a senior Pakistani intelligence official.
A spokesman for the CIA refused to comment on. But a US official familiar with the operations defended the timetable and objectives, which came after a gap of 27 days since the last strike on March 17, the day after Mr. Davis has released Pakistani.
"These operations are consistent with the agreements of U.S. - Pakistan which have been in place for some time," said the official, who spoke the condition of anonymity because of the political delicacy of the drone program. "It was the protection of Americans in the region." Do not send a signal to Pakistan. ?
The targets of the attack were activists ordered by Maulvi Nazir, a Chief Taliban of South Waziristan, which is closely linked to the Haqqani network, the main group of Afghan Taliban, supported by the Pakistani army. American and Pakistani intelligence officials say that Mr. Nazir is known to house the Arabs affiliated with Al Qaeda. The Haqqani network and fighters associated with it are also responsible for most of the attacks against us and Afghan troops in the East of the Afghanistan.
Drones struck a pick-up double cabin and a motorcycle upon return of the Afghanistan, in Pakistan, said a Pakistani military official. Seven fighters were killed and six others were injured in the attack just to the South of the village of angina Adda on the border between the two countries.
"It was perhaps for a very good reason and a goal of quality, but the policy of the it look a little insensitive, said Bruce Riedel, a former officer of the CIA and author of" Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the future of the global Jihad. "."
In one additional relations between the United States and Pakistan irritant, a Federal Court has issued statements Tuesday by a Pakistani-American David Headley, in which he says that Lashkar-e-Taiba has helped plot the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai with the support of senior officials of the ISI. Role of Mr. Headley in Mumbai attacks was not only a source of tension between Pakistan and the United States, but also triggered outrage in India, where critics accuse the United States of combining with a Government that they knowingly acting in collusion with the terrorists. Pakistan has long denied that the spy agency itself had something to do with the attacks.
Civilian and military leaders of Pakistan have private supported the strikes of UAV as a means to attack the militants, particularly in Waziristan in the North, where the Pakistani army conducted operations little or not. Over the past two years, however, the CIA has developed its own network of Pakistani sources hidden to help identify targets for drone strikes and is more based on the ISI for this type of aidofficials said.
Pakistani officials grew more alarmed by the frequency of attacks drone - combined last year, more than all previous 117 years - and the fact that the targets are now largely low-altitude fighters and junior commandersnot top cooperative. Strikes on Wednesday brought several attacks this year to 20, according to the long war Journal, a Web site that allows to follow the wars in Afghanistan and in Pakistan.
On television Pakistan popular talk shows in the past weeks, commentators have railed against the campaign of us drone in unusually strong language. Some have suggested that Pakistan should draw on the drones to stop, military retaliation could lead to an extreme measure that said more moderate voices. The leaders of Pakistan's Army knew that bumble bees could not be stopped by force, said Talat Masood, a former lieutenant general and military analyst in Islamabad. "The army knows that he cannot completely stop the tool main the United States counter-terrorism", he said.
In addition, as unpleasant as drones, the Pakistani army does not want to see a possible alternative: American soldiers fighting against the militants on Pakistani territory, General Masood said. General Masood said that Pakistan could expect most Americans more limited use bumblebees.
Some American experts on Pakistan, has however, provided a counterexplanation to Pakistan fury on attacks. They say Pakistan protests can be part of a complex political drama in which Pakistani officials angrily protest against certain affront to their sovereignty to galvanize the already fervent anti-Americanism in the country and then use the tumult as leverage to obtain concessions from the Americans.
"The Pakistanis are masterful to create these embarrassments that become the enormous domestic problems, they then use to try to restore relations with the United States more to their conditions," said Christine Fair, political scientist at Georgetown University, who has worked and travelled extensively in Pakistan.
Reports, contributed by Ismail Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan. PIR Zubair Shah in New York. Jane Perlez, in Islamabad, Pakistan. and Ginger Thompson in Washington.
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