Pakistani drone prototype
Pakistan’s drone program is still in the developmental
stages. It was reported by The Rachel
Maddow Show that they actually did NOT fly the 2004 drone strike:
"Also, the first
drone strike that was conducted in Pakistan to kill somebody was announced by
the Pakistani government as their own military operation. Now, it wasn't their
own military operation. It was the CIA who did it with a drone. It was apparent
before now that the two governments had lied about who is responsible for
actually killing that guy in Pakistan in 2004. It was pretty clear that
Pakistan hadn't actually done it, that we had done it.
But what was not known
until now is that that first ever guy we killed in Pakistan with a drone strike
was not somebody that we were really after. And it wasn't like he was killed by
mistake. He was not a senior al Qaeda figure. He was not somebody that the
United States had grand designs on and really desperately wanted to go kill.
He was somebody who
Pakistan wanted dead for their own reasons. Pakistan was mad at him for their
own reasons. But the deal was, if the United States killed him, we thought
maybe Pakistan's government would let us fly our drones over their country to
do stuff that we wanted to do.
So, the first guy that
we killed with the drone in Pakistan in 2004, Mark Mazzetti reports, that he
was essentially killed as a favor to Pakistan so that they would hook us up and
let us kill more people there that we wanted to kill. It's like with a drug
dealer, first one's free."
It’s
always something….
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