Obama Did Not Decree the Intelligence Service

The CIA is openly keeping the White House from savings in Pakistan

Yesterday the CIA reported yet another successful air strike along the territory of Northern Pakistan. According to the official statement, the drones were hunting for al-Qaida’s second in command, al-Libi. According to the non-official statement, American intelligence officers are bending over backward to help the White House save hundreds of millions of dollars in restoring close ties with Islamabad authorities.

After the elimination of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri took charge of al-Qaida. His right-hand terrorists appointed al-Libi, who allegedly was taken down by the drone. However, the intelligence officers cannot give a 100 percent guarantee that al-Qaida’s second-in-command is actually dead. However, that is not the most important objective. What it is more interesting is the question of why the CIA is putting spokes in the wheels of its own diplomats. The Obama administration gave the diplomats a specific objective: to secure the tightest deadlines on reconstructing the transit corridor from Pakistan to Afghanistan.

This corridor was closed in November of last year after another American drone allegedly annihilated an entire Pakistani border patrol station by mistake and 24 border patrol officials died. This episode became the straw that broke the camel’s back of Pakistani authorities’ patience. Thus, Americans were often left without notice so that they could not violate Pakistan’s sovereignty, and they could no longer respond officially to Islamabad.

Earlier the U.S. provided Pakistan with a significant amount of financial help, estimated in billions of dollars. Washington was positive that this was more than enough to lull the Pakistani national pride. But the estimates of the Washington analytics turned out to be wrong this time. Pakistan not only shut down the vital channel for U.S. transit in Afghanistan, but Pakistan-American relations were lowered to an inappropriately low level in Islamabad.

Americans were forced to be content with a Northern transit canal. However, this was not far off from when Washington began pulling its troops out of Afghanistan, according to Obama’s orders. Experts already estimated that the Northern route would cost America three times as much as one in Pakistan. Talk of the total could go into the billions of dollars in savings if Pakistan again concedes to open its borders to Americans.

It looks as though the department has almost succeeded in appeasing the proud Pakistanis. In the middle of May this year, evidence began surfacing that a new agreement is almost ready. Only a few details are left to work out. Yet again, the CIA reminded us of itself.

On May 28, an American drone carried out an attack against a building in the area of Mir Ali. On June 3 there was another drone strike. Ten terrorists were annihilated. Yesterday, the CIA finally reported a hunt in the skies of Pakistan for the second in command of al-Qaida. So, what should the Pakistanis do with this clear disrespect of the sovereignty of other governments besides America?

Numbers:

American drones eliminated 128 Pakistanis during 18 assault flights since the beginning of 2012. All flights are operated by CIA agents and information about their activities is inaccessible to the Islamabad authorities.