By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers, April 9, 2013
People shout slogans during a protest rally against
U.S. drone strikes in central Pakistan’s Multan on January 8, 2013. At
least eight people were killed and four others injured in two separate
U.S. drone strikes. | Xinhua/MCT
WASHINGTON — Even as its civilian
leaders publicly decried U.S. drone attacks as breaches of sovereignty
and international law, Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency secretly
worked for years with the CIA on strikes that killed Pakistani insurgent
leaders and scores of suspected lower-level fighters, according to
classified U.S. intelligence reports.
Dozens of civilians also reportedly died in the strikes in the semi-autonomous tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan that is a stronghold of al Qaida, Afghan militants, other foreign jihadists and a tangle of violent Pakistani Islamist groups.
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Dozens of civilians also reportedly died in the strikes in the semi-autonomous tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan that is a stronghold of al Qaida, Afghan militants, other foreign jihadists and a tangle of violent Pakistani Islamist groups.
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