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A day of unusually heavy foreign coverage also visited Afghanistan and Pakistan. CBS' Pentagon correspondent David Martin filed the Pakistan story, revealing that the CIA uses Pakistan's Shamsi Air Base to launch Predator drone attacks on targets in the North West Frontier region. "Although Pakistan publicly condemns the strikes, it not only provides a base for the drones but also intelligence about their targets." Mullah Omar, the fugitive Afghan Taliban leader, can relax. He has been removed from the CIA's target list because of "secret ties to Pakistani intelligence." NBC's Richard Engel filed from Kabul where the mood is more nervous than it has been since 2002 when the Omar's regime was ousted: "The Taliban is expected to launch an offensive this spring. Across Kabul there is little confidence that more American troops will be able to keep the Taliban out of this city."
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