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Octobre 2009 : les #cablegate révèlent que des soldats américains opèrent déjà au #Pakistan :

Pakistan approves secret US special forces deployment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/229065

The Pakistani Army has for just the second time approved deployment of U.S. special operation elements to support Pakistani military operations. The first deployment, with SOC(FWD)-PAK elements embedded with the Frontier Corps in XXXXXXXXXXXX, occurred in September (reftel). Previously, the Pakistani military leadership adamantly opposed letting us embed our special operations personnel with their military forces.

Sujet présenté par le Guardian :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/30/wikileaks-cables-us-forces-embedded-pakistan

Small teams of US special forces soldiers have been secretly embedded with Pakistani military forces in the tribal belt, helping to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaida fighters and co-ordinate drone strikes, the embassy cables reveal.

The numbers involved are small – just 16 soldiers in October 2009 – but the deployment is of immense political significance, described in a cable that provides an unprecedented glimpse into covert American operations in the world’s most violent al-Qaida hotbed.

Une raison de plus d’adorer Facebook : Bush et Zuckerberg ont plein de points communs.

“Bush needled Zuckerberg over his failure to complete his computer science course at Harvard. For his part, Zuckerberg heaped praise on his fellow president. ‘It’s one of the things I’ve always admired about you,’ he said to Bush. ‘You’ve always stuck by your principles and pushed through.’”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/30/george-bush-mark-zuckerberg-presidents-together
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