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US to step up drone attacks in Pakistan

The Dawn, New York
United States intends to step up its use of drones to strike militants in Pakistan's tribal areas and might extend them to a different sanctuary deeper inside the country, the New York Times said hiesday quoting US officials.
The administration officials told the newspaper the plan to intensify missile strikes underscored President Obama's goal to 'disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as to strike at other militant groups allied with al Qaeda.
Officials are also proposing to broaden the missile strikes to Baluchistan, south of the tribal areas, unless Pakistan manages to reduce the incursion of militants there.
The Times said influential American lawmakers have voiced support for the administration's position.
Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who heads the Armed Services Committee, acknowledged last week that 'the price is very heavy'- when missile strikes mistakenly kill civilians, but he said the strikes were 'an extremely effective tool.'
The plans have met strong resistance from Pakistani officials and have also worried some former American officials and some analysts, who say that strikes create greater risks of civilian casualties and could further destabilise the nuclear-armed nation, the newspaper said.
On Sunday, a senior Taliban leader vowed to unleash two suicideattacksaweeklikeoneon Saturday in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, unless the Central Intelligence Agency stopped firing missiles at militants.
Pakistani officials have expressed concerns that the missile strikes from remotely piloted aircraft fuel more violence in the country, and some American officials say they are also concerned about some aspects of the drone strikes.
John Radsan, who worked as a CIA lawyer from 2002 to 2004, argued in a recent scholarly article he wrote with Richard W. Murphy, a fellow law professor, that the United States should follow the lead of the Israeli Supreme Court and require an investigation of 'targeted killings' by the CIA to control the practice.
While the notion of remote-control killing may seem chilling, military experts say the drones, which can transmit live video for nearly a day at a time, typically supply the weapons targeting officers with enough information to
avoid civilian casualties.
Marc Garlasco, a former military targeting official who now works for Human Rights Watch, the international advocacy group, said the drones had helped limit civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the Air Force uses them to attack people laying roadside bombs and to attack other insurgents.
But in trying to take advantage of what can be fleeting chances to kill top Taliban and Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, the CIA faces a much more difficult task, especially if it follows the targets into more populated areas.
'When you're operating under very short time frames, like the CIA is in Pakistan, you are exponentially increasing the risk of killing noncombatants,' Mr. Garlasco said.
In Pakistan, the extensive missile strikes have been limited to the tribal areas, and authorities say they have killed 9 of the top 20 Qaeda leaders. American officials say the missile strikes have forced some Taliban and Qaeda leaders to flee south toward Quetta, a city in the province of Balochistan, which abuts the parts of southern Afghanistan where recent fightinghas been the fiercest.