Yeah, but when they take out 24 Pakistani troops with a drone, that is less than convincing message.
Pakistan Was Consulted Before Fatal Hit, U.S. Says Deadly Border Strike Came After Forces Were Told Area Was Clear of Pakistani Troops, Officials SayDecember 2, 2011
BY Julian E. Barnes and Adam Entous
WASHINGTON:
Pakistani officials at a border coordination center gave the go-ahead to American airstrikes that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistan troops, unaware that their own forces were in the area, according to U.S. officials
briefed on the preliminary investigation.
U.S. officials, giving their first detailed explanation of the worst friendly-fire incident of the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan,
said an Afghan-led assault force that included American commandos were hunting Taliban militants when they came under
fire from an encampment along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
The commandos thought they were being fired upon by militants. But the assailants turned out to be Pakistani military personnel ...
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