“On January 9, 2008, Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, and Gen. Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, visited Islamabad [Pakistan], where they discussed with [Pakistani President Purvez] Musharraf and [General] Ashfaq Kayani a plan to make operational in FATA [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas] a secret CIA base that could mount attacks on militants by Predator drones armed with missiles. Musharraf agreed and also accepted help from U.S. Special Forces to train and mentor Pakistani counterterrorism units.”
– Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 389