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12Jul2009
3arabawy BookMarx 07/11/2009 (p.m.)
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 12:30AM البيان رقم 3 من اللجنة العليا للمطالبة بحقوق موظفي البريد | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر
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FACTBOX - U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan | Reuters
- A senior U.S. lawmaker, Senator Dianne Feinstein, told a U.S. Senate hearing in February that drones were being operated and flown from an air base inside Pakistan. Pakistan denied that, saying there was no permission for the strikes, nor had there ever been.
- U.S. officials also say the United States has been giving Pakistan data on militants in the Afghan border area gathered by surveillance drones in Pakistani airspace under an agreement with Pakistan.
- The United States has shrugged off Pakistani protests. It says the missile strikes are carried out under an agreement with Islamabad which allows Pakistani leaders to decry the attacks in public.
- The United States has carried out about 48 drone air strikes since the beginning of last year, most since September, killing about 465 people, including many foreign militants, according to a tally of reports from Pakistani intelligence agents, district government officials and residents.
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