Washington: United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that the Obama administration was disappointed by the unexplained failure of a US effort to share intelligence with Pakistan over the whereabouts of militants’ suspected bomb facilities.
As an act of trust to restore ties with Pakistan, US intelligence in recent weeks shared the locations of two such compounds in Pakistan’s tribal areas of Waziristan. But by the time Pakistani authorities reached the facilities, they had been left, Gates said.
Gates, who is likely to retire soon, said he was not certain how or why the effort went wrong. He said “’there was clearly disappointment on our part.” Others have raised the possibility that Pakistan’s intelligence service had informed the militants.
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