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This is an archive article published on January 26, 2009

US will hit targets inside Pak if it has intel: Biden

Sticking to campaign pledge of Obama,VP Joe Biden said US would not hesitate to launch attacks inside Pak,if it had intelligence against Al-Qaeda targets.

Sticking to the campaign pledge of US President Barack Obama,his deputy and Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday said the US would not hesitate to launch attacks inside Pakistan,if it had actionable intelligence against “high-value” Al-Qaeda targets.

“I can say that the President of the United States said during his campaign and in the debates that if there is an actionable target,of high-level Al-Qaeda personnel,that he would not hesitate to use action to deal with that,” Biden said in an interview to CBS news.

Biden was responding to a question whether the latest US missile attack inside the tribal regions of Pakistan had the approval of Obama or if he would continue with the Bush administration’s policy in this regard.

“I can’t speak of any particular attack. I can’t speak of any particular action. It’s not appropriate for me to do that,” he said,and then referred to Obama’s famous “actionable intelligence” statement.

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