WASHINGTON: US commandos have carried out in secret around a dozen attacks against Al Qaeda and other militant outfits in Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere, the New York Times reported on Monday.
The recent ‘American boots on the ground’ September 3 raid in Bajaur Agency, therefore, was not the first one in Pakistan.
The attacks were authorised by former Bush defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the approval of the president. The US military was given new authority to attack the Al Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world. In 2006, a Navy Seal …