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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama reserves the right to act again against top terror suspects inside Pakistan, following the raid which killed Osama bin Laden.

Obama's spokesman Jay Carney was asked whether the president would be prepared to target fugitives again if they were on Pakistani soil, despite Islamabad's complaints the bin Laden raid was unauthorized and unilateral.

"He made very clear during the campaign that that was his view. He was criticized for it," Carney said.

"He maintained that that was his view and, by the actions he has taken as president, feels that it was the right approach and continues to feel that way," he said.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-senator Obama said that he would order action against bin Laden or other senior Al-Qaeda leaders inside Pakistan if the country's leadership "is unable or unwilling to act."

Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for president, accused Obama of effectively threatening an allied nation and said that if a target came into view, "you work with the Pakistani government."

US officials have said that they gave no prior notice to Pakistan before Sunday's daring raid,
in which special forces killed the world's most wanted man at a mansion near the country's top military academy in Abbottabad.

CIA director Leon Panetta said that the United States chose not to alert Pakistan of the operation on its soil for fear that officials may have alerted the Al-Qaeda chief.

Pakistan has been on the defensive since Sunday's attack, with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani saying that the United States and other countries shared the blame for not finding bin Laden sooner.

The United States has an uneasy partnership with Pakistan, which supported Afghanistan's hardline Taliban regime until the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al-Qaeda.

Pakistan has often voiced anger at US operations against Al-Qaeda targets on its soil, particularly strikes with unmanned drones which the government says make a mockery of its sovereignty.

The United States carried out more than 100 drone strikes in Pakistan last year, killing more than 670 people, according to an AFP tally.


Obama reserves right to act again in Pakistan - Yahoo! News
 
yet some of our pakistani friends will say it was a joint op . :hitwall:
i havent seen any news either from american side or pakistani side claiming that it was a joint op. americans r saying we didnt inform pakistanis nd pakistanis say they'v got nothing to do with the operation . thats what the official stand of both sides is. but some of the paksitani posters here r bent on taking the credit of something their forces had nothing to do with
 
India should support any such fighting if it happens in the western border of pakistan....in any case the fighting should not be near the eastern border of pakistan
 
yet some of our pakistani friends will say it was a joint op . :hitwall:
i havent seen any news either from american side or pakistani side claiming that it was a joint op. americans r saying we didnt inform pakistanis nd pakistanis say they'v got nothing to do with the operation . thats what the official stand of both sides is. but some of the paksitani posters here r bent on taking the credit of something their forces had nothing to do with

hmmm in the past Pakistan was helping but in the same time condemned US for drones
it is not because you condemn publically that you dont' help

the point is: who is able to know if Pakistan helped or not?
you?

such an op would be more successful with some Pakistani help
just imagine how US troops did a big disaster by such operations in Iran for exemple . So why it would be stupid to imagine that it could only be with some help of Pakistan: informations on the location or any other kind of help

fact is you don't know, i don't know
and they are not a lot to know the total truth about
 
This is all eye wash for public consumption. The choppers that came in were too lightly armed with no air cover and they came close to 100 miles inside Pak territory, they came like this as they were not expecting any resistance from the state that tells us a lot

Its closure time in Afghanistan for the US, you Indians will soon have to find someone else to hide behind in Afghanistan.
 
Pakistan is a unique country where they support in private oppose in public and everyone is well aware about it. :undecided:
 

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