US has backup plan if Pakistan shuts Shamsi base: officials,

[gazoomartian]

Gazoo Notes: I thought they had already vacated!!!!
US is trying to demoralize the govt and people.

Dawn report




WASHINGTON: The United States plans to keep using an airstrip inside Pakistan for non-lethal drone flights against militants near the Afghanistan border despite demands from some Pakistani officials that Washington vacate the base, three US officials said.
The airstrip at Shamsi in Balochistan will continue to be used for some drone surveillance operations, while the CIA, which is principally responsible for the missions, is already using facilities in Afghanistan to launch some armed drone aircraft strikes on targets over the border in Pakistan.
The facility remains fully operational and supports American counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, one of the officials told Reuters on Monday.
But the official added: If, for whatever reason, it was no longer available, there are certainly other ways to continue the program and to sustain the intense pressure its put on al Qaeda and its militant allies.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday that three months ago the CIA had suspended using the base as a launch site for armed drones targeting al Qaeda and other militants.
However, a US official said any temporary lull in drone operations from the Pakistani base was part of a wider dropoff instituted by the United States during bilateral tensions over Pakistans arrest and detention of CIA contractor Raymond Davis on murder charges.
US officials said CIA and Pakistani personnel remain stationed at the Shamsi facility.
Keeping the base open for US drone flights and maintaining Pakistani involvement in base operations is regarded in Washington as a means of ensuring that Islamabad retains a stake in the CIAs use of the remotely controlled drones.
The two US officials said the United States already has adequate infrastructure outside Pakistan principally in Afghanistan, though one official said ships could also be used to continue substantial drone operations against militant targets in Pakistan.

 

[Imranpak]

Any backup plan will be ten times more expensive and even more dangerous! Such reports are published to make their people feel better when they've already lost the war.

 

[faqira786]

Any backup plan will be ten times more expensive and even more dangerous! Such reports are published to make their people feel better when they've already lost the war.

They Killed osama, how can you say that they lost the war? what make you think that they lost the war?

 

[Imranpak]

They Killed osama, how can you say that they lost the war? what make you think that they lost the war?

They told us about 10 times that Osama has been killed prior to the Abbotabad incursion that was a complete hoax, no dead body shown or anything!.

70% of Afghanistan is under Taliban rule who the USA wants to negotiate with after receiving a beating whilst their economy at home is all messed up!. They've not won anything!

 

[desicad]

They told us about 10 times that Osama has been killed prior to the Abbotabad incursion that was a complete hoax, no dead body shown or anything!.

70% of Afghanistan is under Taliban rule who the USA wants to negotiate with after receiving a beating whilst their economy at home is all messed up!. They've not won anything!

Can you share those 10 links? Even one will do.
What about your army and the govt. who have accepted the US version and obl's wives and children in their custody? Are they all lying?

 

[Imranpak]

Can you share those 10 links? Even one will do.
What about your army and the govt. who have accepted the US version and obl's wives and children in their custody? Are they all lying?

You expect me to dig out links over the past decade rather it's common knowledge that Osama has been killed many times, visit some sites like thetruthseeker.co.uk and informationclearinghouse.info
Certainly, the government is an American puppet so will back up everything they say where as the army can't do much without the government's backing!

There are about ten different reports and dates of Osama's death on whatreallyhappened.com but most people blindly believe in the mainstream media. Again i ask why was Osama's dead body not shown when the American's had no hesitation in showing us Saddam Hussein's execution! Only an idiot would believe that Osama's funeral took place at sea!