ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — less than a month after President Obama assured testily journalists in 2009 that Pakistan's nuclear materials "remains of the militant hands," his Ambassador here sent a secret message to Washington suggest that she remained deeply concerned.
The Ambassador concern was a stockpile of highly enriched uranium, sit in years near the aging research nuclear reactor in Pakistan. There were enough to build multiple "dirty bombs" or in the qualified hands, possibly enough for an actual atomic bomb.
Cable, dated May 27, 2009, reported the Ambassador, Anne w. Patterson, the Pakistani Government once again was dragging its feet on an agreement concluded for two years previously United States remove the material.
She wrote to the senior US officials that the Pakistani Government had concluded that "the ' sensational ' international and local media coverage of Pakistan's nuclear weapons made it impossible to continue at this time." A senior Pakistani official said she warned, if the word is leaked that the Americans will help remove the fuel, the local press would probably "to describe it as the United States." take Pakistan's nuclear weapons
Fuel is still there.
It may be the most unnerving proof of complex relationship — sometimes co-operative, often confrontational, always cautious — between the United States and Pakistan, almost ten years to the US-led war in Afghanistan.Cables, produced by WikiLeaks and made available for a number of news organizations make it clear that lie underneath public insurances deep clash over strategic objectives on issues such as Pakistan's support for Afghan Taliban and tolerance of al-Qaeda and Washington's warmer relations with India, Pakistan's Archenemy.
Written from the u.s. Embassy in Islamabad, reveals the cables American diplomats maneuver which try to support an unpopular elected Government that is more responsive to the American targets than is the real power in Pakistan, the army and the Intelligence Agency so crucial to the struggle against militant.Cables show how weak the civil government are: President Asif Ali Zardari told Vice President Joseph r. Biden Jr. that he worried that the military might "take me."
Frustration over American lack of ability to persuade the Agency's Pakistani army and the intelligence to cease to support the Afghan Taliban and other militant runs through the reports of the meetings between the American and Pakistani officials.
That frustration busy the Bush administration and became a problem for the incoming Obama administration, cables, document, during a trip in January 2009, Mr. Biden has carried out Pakistan 11 days before he was sworn in. in a meeting with General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Army Chief of staff, Mr. Biden asked several times about Pakistan and the United States "had the same enemy as we further."
"The United States need to be able to make an objective assessment of Pakistan's part of the deal," said Mr. Biden, according to a Feb. 6, 2009, cable.
General Kayani tried to reassure him said, "we are on the same page in Afghanistan, but there can be different tactics."Mr. Biden replied that "results" would tester.
The cables reveals at least one example of increased cooperation, previously undisclosed under the Obama administration.Last autumn, allowed the Pakistani army secretly 12 American Special Operations soldiers to deploy with Pakistani troops in the violent Tribal areas near the Afghan border.
The Americans were prohibited to lead combat missions.Even though their number was small, had their presence in the army headquarters in Bajaur, South Waziristan and North Waziristan, a "sea change in the way of thinking," the Embassy reported.
The Embassy added its normal prudence: implementations must be kept secret or "Pakistani military will probably stop making requests for assistance."
In recent years, however, Pakistan and the United States began to publicly acknowledge the role of a very American field advisors. Lieutenant Colonel Michael Shavers, a u.s. military spokesman in Islamabad, said in a statement that "at the request of the Pakistanis," small teams of Special Operations forces, "move to different locations with their Pakistani military counterparts throughout Pakistan."
In addition, the last week in a report to Congress on operations in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said that the Pakistani army also had accepted American and coalition advisors in Quetta.
The cables do not address the sharp increase in Mr. Obama in the drone attacks against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the Tribal areas of Pakistan's tacit approval. This is because the cables is not classified at the highest level.
A deep scepticism
Of all the visible manifestations of the cables, however, deep scepticism that Pakistan will ever fully cooperate to fight the full range of extremist groups. [citation needed] this is partly because Pakistan sees some of the strongest militant groups such as insurance for the inevitable day United States military to withdraw from Afghanistan and Pakistan — want to exert maximum influence inside Afghanistan and against Indian intervention.
In fact, Consul General in Peshawar wrote in 2008 that she believed that some members of the Haqqani network — one of the most deadly groups attacking American and Afghan soldiers — had left the North Waziristan to escape the drone strikes. Some members of the family, wrote she moved to the South of Peshawar; other fine in Rawalpindi, where senior Pakistani military officials also live.
Jane Perlez reported from Islamabad, and David e. Sanger and Eric Schmitt from Washington. William j. broad and Andrew w. Lehren contributed reporting from New York.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist at the door of his house in Islamabad in 2009.
WASHINGTON — Spent at the beginning of 2008, when the rumors section object that Pakistan was about to release from house arrest Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man who created the world's largest black market in nuclear technology, the Bush administration is silent.
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Articles in this series will examine American diplomatic cables as a window on relations with the rest of the world in an age of war and terrorism.
Updates in response to the leak of diplomatic cables. Editors and journalists answer questions.Struggling to get help for Pakistan in the war against Al Qaeda, it could not risk to remind the world of a case Pakistani officials kept saying was closed.
Private it was another story.
Richard a. Boucher, top State Department official for South Asia, wrote on april 10, 2008, the Embassy in Islamabad should "express Washington's strong opposition to the release of Dr. Khan and call on the Pakistan Government to continue holding him under house arrest. Release him, he wrote, would" undermine "what Pakistan had done to combat the proliferation.
"International security damage by Dr Khan and his voting rights is not a closed book," he wrote, noting that the United States and the other was still processing the Khan network sales of technology to Iran and North Korea "and possible other States."
The world, he said, "the reality that the uranium enrichment technology and nuclear weapons design that was sold to Libya is now available for other States and non-State actors."
Dr. Khan was released 10 months later. Pakistan has prevented him from being interviewed by international inspectors, or the United States, including his assertion that others in the Pakistani Government knew of his work.
His comments in an interview to be aired on CNN's Larry King Live, referred to a cable, who said "Russian democracy has disappeared" and described the Government as "an oligarchy run by security services," a phrase attributed to the US Defense Secretary Robert m. Gates.
Mr. Putin said Mr Gates were "deeply deluded", and mentioned the Washington welcomes not criticism of his own political system.
In the interview, Mr. Putin also warned that Russia would develop and implement new nuclear weapons, if the United States does not accept its proposal to integrate Russian and European missile defense — constitutes a deepening of a comment by President Dmitri a. Medvedev, in his annual State of the nation address on Tuesday.
"We have just made a proposal shows how all of us to address security, shared problem could share responsibility between us," he said, according to excerpts released by CNN. "But if our proposals will be met with a negative answer, and if further threats is built on our borders, Russia will have to ensure her own security through various means," including "new nuclear missile technologies."
Mr. Putin said that Moscow would like to avoid this scenario.
' This is no threat from our side, "he said. "We simply say this is what we expect to happen if we do not agree on a common effort there."Last month during a NATO-Russia Summit in Lisbon, the delegations discussed the President Obama invitation for Russia to take some role in the future missile defense shield, perhaps through linkage between Russian facilities and the European Shield.
At this meeting, said Mr. Medvedev suggested "sectoral missile defense," which will divide the missile shield in zones "responsibility", and to involve deep coordination between European and Russian sectors, Dmitri v. Trenin, a military analyst and Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.NATO's proposals on cooperation is less ambitious, involves the exchange of information, but not the interdependence, and some members remain deeply mistrustful Russian involved, he said.
In the interview, Mr. Putin Wednesday bread from timid reply Russian leaders have so far given to Wikileaks cables. While a number of them refers to Russia, they have so far offered few real revelations about sensitive topics such as corruption or power relationships within the political elite.The comments attributed to Mr. Gates, contained in a cable, dated 8 February 2010, used the toughest language published so far.
Mr. Putin said, several u.s. Presidents had been selected through the electoral lists college system even if they do not win a majority of the popular vote, but that Russia do not press the point.
"When we talk with our American friends and tell them there are systemic problems" with the electoral lists college system, "we hear from them," do not disturb our affairs, this is our tradition and it will continue as. "We do not confuse us. "
' But to our colleagues, I would also like to advise you not to interfere with the sovereign choice of the Russian people, "he says.
He downplayed the impact of the release cables, calls it "no disaster" and went on to suggest that they might be counterfeits be circulated to the unclear political purposes.
"Some experts believe that someone is deceiving Wikileaks, that their reputation is undermined, use them to their own political purposes later," he said. "It is one of the possibilities that it is the opinion of the experts. "