September 15, 2011
Panetta: We Will Not Allow Insurgents to Attack U.S. Forces in _Afghanistan
Defense Secretary _Leon _Panetta on Wednesday expressed frustration with Islamabad, warning that the U.S. will not allow the attacks on U.S. forces from Pakistan-based insurgents like the Haqqani network to continue.
Pointing to the 20-hour assault against the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul that finally ended Wednesday, Panetta said it is unacceptable that the Haqqanis are able to launch such deadly attacks and then flee to safe havens across the border in Pakistan.
"The message they need to know is: we're going to do everything we can to defend our forces," Panetta told reporters traveling with him to San Francisco for meetings with Australian officials.
He refused to say whether the U.S. plans to take any new military actions, but there has been an escalating U.S. campaign of drone strikes into Pakistan's border regions.
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