US angers Pakistan over Al-Qaeda claims

By johnibii

by Jitendra Joshi

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States Sunday sparked heated verbal skirmishes by refusing to rule out military action against Al-Qaeda leaders sheltering inside Pakistan, one of its closest “war on terror” allies.

The US director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, said Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was in all likelihood alive and sheltering in a frontier zone where pro-Taliban Pakistani tribal leaders hold sway.

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