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Panetta declares 'undeclared' war with Pak to protect US troops in Afghanistan | US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the US will do whatever it takes to protect its forces in Afghanistan. "Without ever getting into the details of what we may or may not do I think it suffices to say that the United
States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces," Fox News quoted
Panetta, as saying. Panetta expressed outright frustration with the Pakistani
leadership and the safe havens they provide the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier
province, especially the Haqqani network. "We cannot continue to tolerate a situation
where Haqqanis, terrorists on their side of the border, come across, attack our
troops, kill our troops, and then return to a safe haven in Pakistan . That's
intolerable," Panetta said. "You know we have urged them time and time again that
they have to deal with that situation, that we cannot allow that to happen. And
we've reached the limits of our patience with regards to just standing back and
not having the Pakistani's take the action that they have to take if we're going
to control that situation," he added. He added the U.S. is at war in Pakistan
's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), but stopped short of saying the
U.S. was at war with Pakistan . They were the strongest words yet from a U.S.
defense secretary about the "double game" Pakistan is playing with the U.S. in
Afghanistan, stated Fox News.
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