Posted: Oct 29, 2009 22:59 Post subject: Clinton scolds Pakistan over al-Qaida effort
Clinton scolds Pakistan over al-Qaida effort
Says she finds it ‘hard to believe’ that government can't find terrorists
updated 6:02 p.m. CT, Thurs., Oct . 29, 2009
ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Pakistani officials Thursday for failing to press the hunt for al-Qaida inside their borders, suggesting they know where the terrorist leaders are hiding.
American officials have long said that al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden and senior lieutenants of the network accused in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks operate out of the rugged terrain along the border with Afghanistan.
But Clinton's unusually blunt comments went further in asserting that Pakistan's government has done too little about it.
"I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to," Clinton said in an interview with Pakistani journalists in Lahore. "Maybe that's the case. Maybe they're not gettable. I don't know."
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