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Drone attacks to continue: Bush
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush has indicated that drone attacks on suspected terrorist targets inside the tribal areas would continue and Washington will not consult other governments before ordering such strikes.
President Bush, who was talking to the White House press corps on his plane en route to Afghanistan, said he believed the Pakistani government, particularly President Asif Ali Zardari, had the determination to fight terrorists.
President Zardari is determined, said Mr Bush. Hes said so publicly and hes said so to me privately. He looked at me in the eye and said: You dont need to talk to me about extremist violence; after all, my wife got killed by extremists.
The US president said that for dealing with extremists who got embedded in the population, a country needed to combine pressure with a strategy to win over the hearts and minds of the local people.
Find them and get them, press them hard, and then win the hearts and minds of the locals through economic development, he added.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush has indicated that drone attacks on suspected terrorist targets inside the tribal areas would continue and Washington will not consult other governments before ordering such strikes.
President Bush, who was talking to the White House press corps on his plane en route to Afghanistan, said he believed the Pakistani government, particularly President Asif Ali Zardari, had the determination to fight terrorists.
President Zardari is determined, said Mr Bush. Hes said so publicly and hes said so to me privately. He looked at me in the eye and said: You dont need to talk to me about extremist violence; after all, my wife got killed by extremists.
The US president said that for dealing with extremists who got embedded in the population, a country needed to combine pressure with a strategy to win over the hearts and minds of the local people.
Find them and get them, press them hard, and then win the hearts and minds of the locals through economic development, he added.
