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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has questioned Pakistan's failure to capture senior al-Qaeda leaders. Mrs Clinton said in an interview with journalists in Lahore she found it "hard to believe" nobody in the government knew where they were. She also challenged opposition to a US aid ...
tnr.com - 30 days ago
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This is pretty great. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Thursday over Pakistan's failure to...
locate top al-Qaeda leaders in the eight years since they escaped over the border from Afghanistan, telling a group of Pakistani ...
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Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
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By William Pfaff When Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton visits Pakistan this week, she will hear a...
lot about how fearful the Pakistan populace is, not of the Taliban and al-Qaida, but of the United States. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related ...
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Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
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Clinton Lowers the Boom About Al-Qaida in Pakistan
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... where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to.
“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know.”
US Ambassador Anne Patterson said Mrs Clinton’s remarks were similar to what the administration of President Barack Obama had told Pakistani officials privately.
“We often say, ‘yes, there needs to be more focus on finding these leaders’,” Ms Patterson said.
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Hillary Clinton: Low Marginal Tax Rates Lead to Terrorism
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... is inconclusive. The "gettable" line (and by the way, that should
be "getatable") seems to have come in a press conference and the
tax line seems to have come in an address. The two have been
run together in news coverage, such as this BBC
story, but they weren't part of a single argument. ...
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