A lawsuit filed by a Pakistani against the US for the deaths of his son and brother when an unmanned drone fired on his home is meant to send a ‘message’ to the US, “… these drone attacks you are carrying out are killing innocent people,”
As if these drone strikes are evidence enough, Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army 
Despite sustained denials by US officials spanning more than a year, US military Special Operations Forces have been conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan, helping direct US drone strikes and conducting joint operations with Pakistani forces against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in north and south Waziristan and elsewhere in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, according to secret cables released as part of the Wikileaks document dump.
While the US government will not confirm US drone strikes inside the country and Pakistani officials regularly deride the strikes, the issue of the drones was discussed in another cable from August 2008. That cable describes a meeting between Ambassador Patterson and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. When the issue of US drone strikes came up, according to the cable, Gillani said, “I don’t care if they do it as long as they get the right people. We’ll protest in the National Assembly and then ignore it.”
The ability of US special operations forces to operate in Pakistan is clearly viewed as a major development by the US embassy. “Patient relationship-building with the military is the key factor that has brought us to this point,” according to the October 2009 cable. It also notes the potential consequences of the activities leaking: “These deployments are highly politically sensitive because of widely-held concerns among the public about Pakistani sovereignty and opposition to allowing foreign military forces to operate in any fashion on Pakistani soil. Should these developments and/or related matters receive any coverage in the Pakistani or US media, the Pakistani military will likely stop making requests for such assistance.”
Such statements might help explain why Ambassador Richard Holbrooke lied to the world when he said bluntly in July 2010: “People think that the US has troops in Pakistan, well, we don’t.”
Read the entire article here and learn how Blackwater, now known as Xe, is operating in Pakistan.
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