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Pakistan may be kicking the CIA out of its premiere base for the drone war. Or it may not — who can tell with the Pakistanis anymore? What’s for certain is that all their griping strengthens the U.S.’ resolve to keep bases in neighboring Afghanistan to launch drones into Pakistan unilaterally.

In keeping with their pique with the U.S. after the SEALs’ unilateral Osama bin Laden kill, the Pakistanis are loudly declaring the U.S. cut off from its most prominent drone launching pad. “No U.S. flights are taking place from Shamsi any longer,” says Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar.

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