During a trip without prior notice to the capital of Pakistan, on Friday, Mr. Panetta met with the head of Pakistani intelligence, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha and showed him satellite photographs and other evidence of what the CIA believes that two facilities for the manufacture of bombs used by militants based in Pakistan against US forces in Afghanistanthe official said. The facilities of the bomb were in the Northwest districts of North and South Waziristan, both refuges of militants.
That Mr. Panetta official was forced to confront Pasha General once the CIA alerted the Pakistanis on the existence of the bomb-making facilities several weeks ago and asked that the locations of raid. But when the Pakistani army, the militants had disappeared, causing the CIA suspected that militants had warning from someone on the Pakistani side.
"The objectives appear to have been tip", said the US official, he added, "there is evidence that some Pakistani officials are not happy, and neither are, of course".
A Pakistani official said on Saturday that at the beginning there was no reason for Pakistan to suspect that the bomb-makers had disappeared. "Groups extremists often move places", the official said. But, the official said that "now that the American side has drawn our attention to the possibility of the Taliban moved between her shared intelligence and the day of our military action, we will work to find out what happened."
Both spoke of officials on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters.
First meeting of Mr. Panetta were reported with General Pasha and the theory that there was a murmur of installations for the manufacture of bombs by ABC News and The Washington Post.
The United States-Pakistan tensions have worsened since the American military incursion which killed Osama bin Laden the month passed close to the Pakistani capital. US officials say that they have found no evidence of anyone in management of Pakistan knew about the hiding of Bin Laden, although the departure of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, said recently that he knew that "someone" in Pakistan.
US officials did not say Pakistan about the RAID until later.
US intelligence and military officials have said for a long time that elements of Pakistan's intelligence service have close ties to the Pakistani Taliban and Pakistani insurgents. US officials say Pakistan supports the insurgents as a force for proxy in Afghanistan, in preparation for influence when American soldiers.
Mr. Panetta, who is due to replace Mr. Gates as Defense Secretary on July 1, said during his confirmation hearing last week that Pakistan, an important American ally, also remained a serious problem.
He said that the Services Committee armed of the Senate that the relationship with Pakistan was "one of the most critical and yet one of the most complicated and frustrating relations that we have." Mr. Panetta added that Pakistan's nuclear weapons remains a concern for "the danger that the nukes could end up in the wrong hands".
Deadly bombings in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - two explosions took place minutes in the Northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and injuring almost 100 in one of the deadliest attacks since the armed incursion Seal killed Osama bin Laden the month passed, officials said.
Explosions, one of which was caused by a suicide bomber, occurred just after midnight in an area of the city of home offices to politicians and the army of housing.
The first explosion was relatively small and pointed out to police and rescue the site workers, said Dost Mohammed, a senior officer of the local police. A few minutes later, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle came from a bomb, causing deaths and wounded critically, 98 people, 18 said Rahim Khan, a nearby doctor.
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