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The Pakistan news just keeps

artappraiser — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:17:40 +0000

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The Pakistan news just keeps coming; this one's bizarre:

Pakistan and China: Two Friends Hit a Bump
By Michael Wines, New York Times, May 26/27, 2011

.....it raised eyebrows when this week the two nations politely disagreed over whether Mr. Gilani had given the Chinese a gift that would be hard to mislay: an entire naval base, right at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

Pakistan’s defense minister, Ahmad Mukhtar, who accompanied Mr. Gilani on the state visit, announced the deal after Mr. Gilani returned home on Saturday.

“We have asked our Chinese brothers to please build a naval base at Gwadar,” a deepwater port on Pakistan’s southwest coast, he told journalists.

Moreover, he said, Pakistan had invited China to assume management of the port’s commercial operations, now run by a Singapore firm under a multidecade contract.

On Tuesday, however, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, disagreed, saying the port had neither been offered nor accepted.

“China and Pakistan are friendly neighbors,” she said at the ministry’s twice-weekly news conference. “Regarding the specific China-Pakistan cooperative project that you raised, I have not heard of it. It’s my understanding that during the visit last week this issue was not touched upon.”

Some analysts were at a loss to explain the discrepancy....

Hillary Clinton to arrive in

artappraiser — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:03:05 +0000

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Hillary Clinton to arrive in Pakistan Today (Friday)
Press Trust of India, Updated: May 26, 2011 23:53 IST
Islamabad: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Pakistan on Friday to hold crucial talks with the country's civilian and military leadership aimed at addressing American concerns following the killing of Osama bin Laden in this country, diplomatic sources said.
Ahead of Clinton's arrival in Islamabad US Joint Chief of Staff's committee chairman Admiral Mike Mullen arrived in Islamabad today, the sources told PTI.....

U.S. to Germany: Bin Laden

artappraiser — Fri, 27 May 2011 01:58:30 +0000

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U.S. to Germany: Bin Laden linked to Europe attack plot
BY Kirsten Grieshaber and Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press, May 26, 2011

BERLIN -- The U.S. has told Germany that evidence pulled from Osama bin Laden's hideout shows that the terrorism chief was linked to a plot to attack targets in Europe last year, a senior German official told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

Two U.S. officials also told the Associated Press that bin Laden had advised Europe-based militants to attack in unspecified mainland European countries just before Dec. 25. The officials offered no details.

Separately, bin Laden encouraged multiple attacks on Danish targets because of disparaging references to the Muslim prophet Muhammad in Danish media, the U.S. officials said.

European security officials said earlier this month that they had seen very little of the information from the May 2 raid on bin Laden's hideout, but the U.S. had begun sharing more information with intelligence agencies in Europe....

Signs That Bin Laden Weighed

artappraiser — Fri, 27 May 2011 01:54:22 +0000

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Signs That Bin Laden Weighed Seeking Pakistani Protection
By Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, May 26/27, 2011

WASHINGTON — Documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed show that he and his aides discussed making a deal with Pakistan in which Al Qaeda would refrain from attacking the country in exchange for protection inside Pakistan, American officials said Thursday.

The documents, which officials said included messages between Bin Laden and his top operations chief over the past year, provide the first suggestion that Bin Laden considered Pakistan’s government amenable to a bargain that would ensure the safety of top Qaeda leaders.

The officials emphasized that they had found no evidence that such a proposal, which one American official said was in the “discussion phase,” was ever raised with Pakistani military or intelligence operatives.

But the fact that Bin Laden even considered a truce with Pakistan suggests that he thought the idea might have had some support inside the country’s national security establishment. At the same time.....