A US drone, similar to the one used in Pakistan today. The US has been making an increasing use of unmanned planes for reconnaisance and stealth attacks. (Photo from Daily Mail)From IPS News Agency:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations that CIA operatives have been paying Pakistanis to identify the targets, suggests that managers of the drone attacks programs have been using the total secrecy surrounding the program to hide abuses and high civilian casualties.
Intelligence analysts have been unable to obtain either the list of military targets of the drone strikes or the actual results in terms of al Qaeda or civilians killed, according to a Washington source familiar with internal discussion of the drone strike program. The source insisted on not being identified because of the extreme sensitivity of the issue.
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My Comment: They are keeping this secret because the results must be inmpressive. If they were not, they would not be ramping up drone attacks in both Afghanistan and the Frontier Regions of Pakistan.