Bin Laden Killing Threatens Already Tenuous Relationship Between U.S. And Pakistan
WASHINGTON — Pakistan has long subscribed to the Claude Rains school of diplomacy.
Like the corrupt police chief the actor played in the classic 1942 film Casablanca who famously declared he was â??shocked, shockedâ? to find gambling in a casino, the government in Islamabad has long publicly denied it allows U.S. military forces to operate within its borders.
But as the assassination of Osama bin Laden at his palatial fortress compound in a military garrison town not far from the capital demonstrates, the script has changed. The troubled marriage of strategic convenience between the United States and Pakistan conceived out of the rubble of the 9/11 attacks is teetering on the brink of dissolution.
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