Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the US is disappointed and suspicious that militants in Pakistan apparently were tipped off that American intelligence officials had discovered two of their suspected bomb-making facilities Gates stopped short of concluding that Pakistani officials leaked the information to the insurgents. And he said such incidents must not derail US relations with Islamabad.
A US official said that after telling Pakistani intelligence about the location of the two compounds, US drones and satellite feeds showed the militants clearing out the sites. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, said the assumption was that the Pakistanis had tipped off Haqqani network insurgents. US intelligence in recent weeks shared the location of two compounds. Gates spoke Monday in an Associated Press interview.
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