Obama acknowledges the strikes of drones in Pakistan

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Approved by U.S. President Barack Obama that the U.S. drone aircraft raids on a regular basis on sites believed to be strongholds of gunmen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

Obama said that the raids "surgical strikes and intense against those listed on the terrorism list."
This is the first time that Washington has recognized publicly raids on sites tribe in Pakistan.

At the same time played down reports of Obama, who spoke about the United States use this type of aircraft in Iraq, saying that the drones are used to protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

He said the goal of limited use to "make the Iraqi embassy buildings are protected."

Obama made the remarks in a meeting took an hour on Google Plus Obama answered questions on the participants and the number fell to 130 thousand questions.

And about six people were invited to conduct the intervention with President Obama during the meeting and ask him questions directly.

This comes within the meetings and interventions by the U.S. administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden on social networking sites continued for about a week.

In response to a question about raids drone extensively since taking office, Obama said the occurrence of these raids, noting that it "lies heavily on tribal sites in Pakistan."

He explained that "these raids targeting al-Qaeda members sheltering in the sites of the nature of the geographical and along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan."

Obama stressed that "it is important that everyone understands that this strikes a careful monitoring."

Little is known about the details of the raids secret supervised by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA and military target al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the mountainous areas in Pakistan.

According to a survey conducted by the French news agency, U.S. planes 64 raid in the area in 2011 after the numbering to 101 raid in 2010.

This raises the raids outrage in Pakistan as it strikes indiscriminately kill a large number of innocent civilians.

And increased feelings of anger toward the United States in Pakistan since the establishment of a special forces unit killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a secret operation last year.

Obama acknowledges the strikes of drones in Pakistan