Photo from Flight GlobalFrom The Danger Room:
The U.S. isn't just launching killer drone attacks on targets in Pakistan, from bases on Pakistani soil. It's doing so without the individual authorization of the Pakistani government.
Before August, the CIA had to ask for Islamabad's OK before launching any attack. The approvals often took "a day or more, sometimes causing the agency to lose track of the target," the L.A. Times reports. But when Pakistani president and Bush administration ally Pervez Musharraf was forced to resign in August, Bush quickly approved "new rules: Rather than requiring Pakistan's permission to order a Predator strike, the agency was allowed to shoot first."
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My Comment: I would rather have Al Qaeda leaders running and looking behind their souldiers than staying home and laughing at our impotence.