AP sources: US-Pakistan form an anti-terror squad

Source: AP

By KIMBERLY DOZIER, AP Intelligence Writer – 1 hr 37 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Bruised from their latest diplomatic clash, the U.S. and Pakistan are trying to bandage their relationship by forging a new joint intelligence team to go after top terrorism suspects, officials say.

The move comes after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the Pakistanis with the U.S. list of most-wanted terrorism targets, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Wednesday. The list includes some groups the Pakistanis have been reluctant to attack, U.S. officials said.

It's one of a host of confidence-building measures meant to restore trust blown on both sides after U.S. forces tracked down and killed al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden during a secret raid in Pakistan last month.

But it also amounts to a new test of loyalty for both sides. The Pakistanis say the U.S. has failed to share its best intelligence, instead running numerous unilateral spying operations on its soil.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_re_us/us_us_pakistan

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Lengthy article at the link.

Also, for some context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_North-West_Pakistan">War in North-West Pakistan

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As always, Pakistani involvement would be limited to gathering what Americans know and passing it on to Taliban and other official Pakistani state terrorism outfits.