The New York Times
Tue, November 30, 2010 -- 3:13 PM ET
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From Pakistan, Diplomats Wrote About a Vexing Ally
Confidential cables to Washington from the American embassy
in Islamabad, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a
number of news organizations, illustrate deep clashes over
strategic goals on issues like Pakistan's support for the
Afghan Taliban and tolerance of Al Qaeda, and Washington's
warmer relations with India, Pakistan's archenemy.
One cable, sent less than a month after President Obama
assured reporters that Pakistan's nuclear materials "will
remain out of militant hands," expressed concern that a
stockpile of highly enriched uranium, stored for years near
an aging research reactor in Pakistan , could be used by
militants to build several "dirty bombs" or perhaps an actual
nuclear bomb.
That cable is among the most unnerving evidence of the
complex relationship -- sometimes cooperative, often
confrontational, always wary -- between America and Pakistan
nearly 10 years into the American-led war in Afghanistan.
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