...but don't worry... Obama will be sure to give them our drones in working condition
(weaselzippers.us) Or to put it another way, the country we give billions of dollars to annually will now provide ground cover for al-Qaeda, Haqqani Network and Taliban forces on its soil.
(NBC News)– Pakistan will shoot down any U.S. drone that intrudes its air space per new directives, a senior Pakistani official told NBC News on Saturday.
According to the new Pakistani defense policy, “Any object entering into our air space, including U.S. drones, will be treated as hostile and be shot down,” a senior Pakistani military official told NBC News.
The policy change comes just weeks after a deadly NATO attack on Pakistani military checkpoints accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Pakistani officials to order all U.S. personnel out of a remote airfield in Pakistan.
Pakistan told the U.S. to vacate Shamsi Air Base by December 11.
A senior military official from Quetta, Pakistan, confirmed to NBC News on Saturday that the evacuation of the base, used for staging classified drone flights directed against militants, “will be completed tomorrow,” according to NBC’s Fakhar ur Rehman. Keep reading…
the positive side to this is that at least Pakistan doesn't get a working one like
Iran
