Restored US military confidence threatens efforts to repair relations with Pakistan

May 08, 2011

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US defense secretary Robert Gates and Pakistan's Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
SPECIAL TO AL ARABIYA

A sense of restored American military self-confidence is emerging from the wreckage of US-Pakistani relations in the wake of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden by US Navy SEALs.

That self-confidence had …

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