Sunday, November 3, 2013

US lawmaker defends drone killing of Hakimullah Mehsud

World News
Washington: A Us legislator whose council administers the knowledge group on Sunday safeguarded the drone strike that killed a Pakistani Taliban pioneer and said it might help keep American troops safe. Delegate Mike Rogers, who seats the House of
Representatives' changeless knowledge board, said the killed activist, Hakimullah Mehsud, was an "awful gentleman" who was joined with assaults against Pakistani fighters and to the Taliban in Afghanistan, which has constrained terminations of numerous schools for young ladies. "This was a terrible gentleman," Rogers said on Cbs' "Face the Nation." "There's some data as of late that concerned us about the wellbeing of our troops. I feel a bit preferable for our troops today over I did soon after this occasion happened." Mehsud, who assumed control as the pioneer of the al Qaeda-connected Pakistani Taliban in 2009, was killed on Friday, on top of three others, in a Us ramble strike in northwest Pakistan. The Pakistani government criticized the murdering as an endeavor by the United States to meddle with peace talks between Pakistan's government and the Taliban. Pakistani authorities said they might survey ties with Washington and a few lawmakers there called for blocking discriminating Us military supply lines into Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban has executed Pakistani officers and coordinated suicide bombings that have slaughtered many regular people. Rogers additionally said Mehsud had binds to a came up short endeavor to shell New York's Times Square in 2010. He said Us knowledge organizations, incorporating the troubled National Security Agency, gather and help the sorts of data that make such strikes conceivable. "We manage these dangers each and every day, and they are huge, they are genuine and they influence true people.

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