U.S. will continue to cause the rocket strikes on Pakistan.

The U.S. military will continue to cause the rocket strikes on Pakistan, transmits Reuters. With such a statement at a meeting of the Senate Committee on Armed Forces Minister of Defense Robert Gates. He noted that the U.S. consider it necessary to continue the struggle with terrorists, based on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
When asked the chairman of the committee Democrat Carl Levin of whether Pakistan is aware of the continuing operations in the country, Gates replied in the affirmative. He also confirmed that on Friday, January 23, U.S. bespilotniki launched two missile strikes on militant positions in northern and southern Pakistani province of Vaziristan. As a result of this operation killed 17 people. Previously reported 10 dead.
This strike was the first large-scale attack from the day of the inauguration of 44 th U.S. President Barack Obama. "And former President Bush and President Obama take the same view: wherever the terrorist group were members of Al Qaeda, the U.S. will continue to deal with them", - quotes agency Gates.
U.S. expressed dissatisfaction that the Government of Pakistan has been unable to make adequate efforts to stop the movement of members of al-Qaida and the Taliban in northwest Pakistan into Afghanistan. In this regard, the U.S. military increased the number of firing on the border areas.
Thus, according to Reuters, the last year have caused more than 30 U.S. missile strikes on Pakistani territory. As the agency for at least half of them were made in the last four months of 2008.