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| U.S. Vows Action against Pakistan-Based Insurgents |
| 2011-09-16 |
| [An Nahar] Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... on Wednesday warned the United States would retaliate against Death Eaters based in Pakistain blamed for staging a dramatic attack in the Afghan capital. A day after a 19-hour assault staged near the U.S. embassy and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... headquarters, Panetta expressed frustration that the Pak government has so far failed to crack down on Haqqani network faceless myrmidons that Washington suspects carried out Tuesday's attack. "Time and again we've urged the Paks to exercise their influence over these kinds of attacks from the Haqqanis and we've made very little progress in that area," Panetta told news hounds aboard his plane before landing in San Francisco. "I'm not going to talk about how we're going to respond. I'll just let you know that we're not going to allow these kinds of attacks to go on," he said. Panetta's tough words come amid strained relations with Islamabad following the U.S. raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... at his Pak hideout on May 2, a raid that Panetta oversaw while he was CIA director. Islamabad's leaders had no advance word of the secret operation, which has caused anger and soul-searching in Pakistain. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Panetta also presided over a dramatic expansion in drone bombing raids in Pakistain, with robotic aircraft targeting al-Qaeda and Talibs in the country's northwest tribal areas. U.S. officials have for years demanded Islambad move against the Haqqani network, which operates in part out of sanctuaries inside Pakistain's borders. Before the Kabul attack, the U.S. military blamed the Haqqani faceless myrmidons for a truck bombing on Saturday against a NATO base in Wardak province that maimed 77 American troops. The 19-hour Taliban assault on Kabul turned the city's most heavily secured district into a battle zone. Fifteen people were killed and six foreign troops maimed in the attack. |
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