In an interview just released with Newsweek‘s Michael Hirsch, Mahmud Ali Durrani, the Pakistani ambassador to the United States, denied that his country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas provide, as the National Intelligence Estimate put it (pdf), “safehaven” for al-Qaeda. And he used the WMD fiasco as a way of discrediting U.S. intelligence on Pakistan:
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