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Pakistan Angry At U.S. Intelligence Chief's Terror Claim
2007-01-13 00:12:15 (191 weeks ago)
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The Pakistani government protested Friday a claim by the head of U.S. intelligence, John Negroponte, that al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders were hiding inside Pakistan.

Since December 2001, when Osama Bin Laden escaped a U.S.-led siege of his Afghan mountain lair at Tora Bora, western intelligence agencies have presumed the al-Qaeda leader and his top Taliban allies were hiding in the highland tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

However, in written evidence to a Senate committee, Negroponte, director of national intelligence, singled out Pakistan as the location of the jihadist leaders' hideout, arguing that al-Qaeda and the Taliban were rebuilding a network there. Negroponte said Pakistan remained a "major source of Islamic extremism".

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