The tail of the disabled Navy chopper left behind in the Usama bin Laden raid in Pakistan will be handed back to the United States sometime Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Kerry announced Monday during a trip to Islamabad.
The senator, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Pakistan since the May 2 raid, also issued a joint statement with Pakistani officials saying the two nations have agreed to work together in any future actions against “high value targets” in Pakistan.
Relations between the two countries have been badly strained since U.S. officials went into Pakistan covertly to take down bin Laden, not telling Pakistan out of concern the al Qaeda terror leader would have been tipped off.
Pakistan’s parliament issued a resolution on Saturday calling for an investigation into how the raid went off without Pakistan’s knowledge and demanding that the U.S. not conduct any more drone strikes in the country.
It also threatened to stop NATO and U.S. trucks from using its land routes to ferry supplies across the border to troops in Afghanistan unless Washington does not stop missile attacks on its territory.
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So we get the chopper tail back on Tuesday. That means the enemy had 16 days to exploit any technology on it – plenty of time.
The Chinese are done with it, so we can have it back now.