WikiLeaks: US forces deployed in Pakistan for intelligence-gathering assistance (Since 2009)

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Source: The Express Tribune

ISLAMABAD: US special forces were embedded with Pakistani troops on intelligence-gathering missions by the summer of 2009, confidential American diplomatic cables showed.

The disclosure comes a day after another set of cables showed that the army chief not only tacitly agreed to the covert US drone campaign against militants, but asked for “continuous Predator coverage” of the tribal areas by these aircraft. The army denied the contents.

The cables reveal that US special forces were deployed with Pakistani troops in joint operations in Pakistan by September of 2009.

“Through these embeds, we are assisting the Pakistanis collect and coordinate existing intelligence assets, the cables quoted then American ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson as saying.

more: http://tribune.com.pk/story/173215/wikileaks-us-forces-deployed-in-pakistan-for-intelligence-gathering-assistance/

[Enrique]

1. this is none of our business

no one read this, ok?

K & R :kick: