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plot, and the US Department of Justice has assembled an impressive
body of emails and other evidence that backs up his claims.
The jihadist penetrations of the army raise persistent questions about
the security of Pakistan's nukes. According to a WikiLeaked State
Department cable, from September 2009, France's national security
adviser Jean-David Levitte told the American Embassy in Paris that
France believes it is not secure. Levitte is one of the most astute
diplomats in the world today, and he is almost certainly right.
The policies that would help wean the Pakistani army off its
obsession with India and jihad are well known. A concerted effort to
end the Indo-Pakistani conflict is essential. Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, despite Mumbai, is trying to do just that. But it is a
hard challenge. Talks to resolve the relatively simple issue of the
disputed Siachen Glacier, the world's highest war zone at the roof of
the Himalayas, failed again in May. The harder issue, Kashmir, will
probably take years to resolve at best.
But we don't have years. Only a fortnight before the Abbottabad raid,
General Kayani gave a speech at the military academy in the city,
almost within earshot of bin Laden. In his remarks Kayani claimed
the back of the militant syndicate in Pakistan had been broken and the
army had triumphed. It is now clear he was badly mistaken.
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings
Institution and adjunct professor at the School for Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent
book, Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the
Global Jihad, came out in March.
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