Saturday, May 28, 2011

SOS Clinton mends relationships in Islamabad

May 3: Secretary Clinton delivers remarks on the death of Usama bin Ladin.
From watching the scene unfold in Abbottabad from the Situation Room in Washington, DC, to mending relationships with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad, SOS Hillary Clinton is on the job:

ISLAMABAD -- The killing of Osama bin Laden is a watershed moment for Pakistan's confrontation with homegrown terrorism," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. She sought to patch relations rocked by knowledge that the terror mastermind lived for years in a country receiving billions in U.S. counter-terror aid and that the U.S. didn't trust its ally enough to alert Pakistani leaders that the raid was coming.

"We have reached a turning point" following the long hunt for bin Laden, Clinton said after intensive meetings in the Pakistani capital under tight security.

"It is up to the Pakistani people to choose what kind of country they wish to live in," Clinton said.



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