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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 09:27 AM
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Obama: U.S. would go after other high-profile targets in Pakistan
Source: CNN

Given the chance, the United States would go after high-value terrorism targets in Pakistan or elsewhere in the same way it took out Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama made clear in an interview with the BBC broadcast Sunday.

"We are very respectful of the sovereignty of Pakistan, but we cannot allow someone who is actively planning to kill our people or our our allies' people, we can't allow those kind of active plans to come to fruition without us taking some action," Obama said in the interview conducted last week.

"And our hope is and our expectation is that we can achieve that in a way that is fully respectful of Pakistan's sovereignty. But I had made no secret. I had said this when I was running for the presidency, that if I had a clear shot at Bin Laden ... that we'd take it."

The raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in the early hours of May 2 on a compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, killed bin Laden and and four others. It has strained U.S. relations with Pakistan, which accused the United States of disrespecting their country's sovereignty and invading Pakistan's air space during the secret bin Laden raid.

more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/22/obama.bbc/
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 09:30 AM
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1. while high profile targets on wall street live it up with their $billions ripped off from us nt
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