Kimberly Dozier
startribune.com
May 31, 2013
The drone attack that killed a Pakistan Taliban deputy leader this week was a
clear signal that despite President Barack Obama’s promise last week of new
transparency in the drone program, the CIA will still launch secret attacks on
militants in north Pakistan and the administration will not have to tell anyone
about it.
The CIA drone took off from Afghanistan on Wednesday and struck a compound in
Pakistan’s remote tribal areas where the agency believed Waliur Rehman was
staying. The Pakistani Taliban later confirmed the death of Rehman, believed to
be one of the key planners behind the deadly suicide bombing against a CIA base
in 2009.
But White House officials would not even confirm that the strike occurred,
much less confirming Rehman’s death, although the president pledged in a
national security speech only last week that he would be more transparent about
U.S. counterterrorism actions.
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