Posted on 05/22/2016 1:36:39 PM PDT by jazusamo
Pakistan said the United States drone strike that reportedly killed a Taliban leader violated its sovereignty, The Guardian reported .
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in an airstrike on Saturday in Pakistan, CNN confirmed , according to sources within al Qaeda and the Taliban.
U.S. officials said the drone strike was authorized by President Obama. But Pakistan said Sunday the U.S. government didn't tell Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of its plans ahead of the strike.
“This is a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty,” Sharif told reporters in London, according to The Guardian.
The Guardian reported that the American government had not notified Pakistan until after the strike was carried out.
The drone strike happened around 6 a.m. Saturday in an area around the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
"Mansour played a key leadership role in not only orchestrating the Taliban but orchestrating a variety of other organizations to include the Haqqani Network and al Qaeda who were perpetrating operations against not only U.S. forces but coalition forces and Afghan forces for a long period of time," Gen. Joseph Votel of U.S. Central Command said at a news conference in Amman, Jordan, according to CNN.
"He's an individual who has been in that structure for a long time. I'm glad he's gone."
Votel made a secret visit to Syria on Saturday to examine Arab and Kurd efforts to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to The Associated Press . He spent 11 hours in northern Syria meeting with Syrian Arab and Kurd fighters, as well as with leaders of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a coalition of groups supported by the U.S.
I agree, And as long as they are trying to extort the US for money while they are harboring terrorists that attack the US, then maybe we should stop the handout of $1.5 billion in funds to keep them alive like we gave them in 2015 and ask back the around $19 billion since 9/11. They don’t have to eat. They are not part of the answer, they are part of the problem.
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Well said, they are definitely part of the problem.
Sovereignty...smovereighty. What difference does it make?
No, it doesn't, because the territory isn't part of Pakistan, irrespective of any land claims. The regime needs to be told that, one more stupid complaint, and the next drone strike takes out their intelligence HQ, which runs jihad in India and Afghanistan, as well as some of the public murders in urban Pakistan. Thanks jazusamo.
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