Pakistan, Afghanistan's closest ally, has agreed to allow U.S. military overflights of its territory if necessary.
Military overflights have assessed the damage, and by early afternoon our civilian disaster assistance team are beginning to arrive.
"The level of planning suggests that this was in train before the French overflights ever took place, " the official said.
Thousands of US overflights carrying troops and supplies have passed through Azerbaijan on their way to the war in Afghanistan since 2001.
Uribe announced Monday that no overflights by military aircraft would be allowed.
The hostage-takers in Algeria claim their attack on the foreign oil workers was retaliation for France's intervention and for Algeria's granting permission for military overflights.
"I made very clear to the prime minister that the overflights from Iran are in fact helping to sustain President Assad and his regime, " Mr Kerry told reporters.
This Sunday is going to be the 50th anniversary of the overflights -- U-2 overflights over Cuba that discovered the Russian SAM sites that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Since taking office in February, he has riled the United States by being friendly to Cuba's Fidel Castro, and by banning overflights by American military aircraft seeking to counter drug-traffickers.
The overflights have long been a source of contention between the U.S. and Iraq and Kerry will tell the Iraqis that allowing them to continue will make the situation in Syria worse and threaten Iraq's stability.
Officials traveling with him said he would press Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other senior officials on democratic reforms and directly urge them to stop overflights of Iranian aircraft carrying military personnel and equipment to support the Syrian government as it battles rebels.
After Cuba responded to a provocative campaign of overflights by exiles by shooting down two light aircraft in international airspace, killing their four crew, Congress in 1996 approved a law known as Helms-Burton, which attempted to extend the embargo to foreign companies and barred the administration from supporting Cuba's return to the IMF.
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Our goal is to take the smaller equipment that's flexible, put it on vessels of opportunity, and then coordinate better with our local state partners, including National Guard overflights, local fishermen's associations, and so forth, mass our effect and get it pointed up with a command and control system that can attack it on all levels.
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