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June 01, 2013

After vowing transparency, US silent on drone killing
Washington (AFP) May 29, 2013
A week after President Barack Obama cracked the lid of secrecy on his drone war, the United States refused Wednesday to confirm it had killed a top Pakistani Taliban leader in an airborne attack. Pakistani security and intelligence sources said that Waliur Rehman, deputy leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had perished in an American drone strike, along with at least five other people, in North Waziristan. But senior officials in Washington stuck to their normal practice of declining ... read more

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