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(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.
Obama personally thanks CIA officers involved in bin Laden's death
Taliban tests Pakistan-U.S. tensions
"We've killed more terrorists on Pakistani soil than anywhere else, and that
could not have been done without their co-operation," Obama told BBC. "But
there's more work to do. And my expectation is, is that over the coming
months, this can be a wake-up call where we start seeing a more effective co
-operative relationship."
Last week, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, tried to calm the tension during a previously planned trip to
Pakistan.
Kerry told Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other officials
in Islamabad on Monday that the United States need not apologize to Pakistan
for the raid but that it it was in both countries' best interest to mend
the frayed relationship. |
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