DAN MARKEY:

Yeah that's what's confusing about a lot of this, and of course you know if the Pakistani state were protecting Osama bin Laden and helping al-Qaida, that may be, but at the same time the Pakistani state has been a target of al-Qaida. U.S. officials believe that President Musharraf, who was in power much of the time after 9/11, was directly attacked by al-Qaida. Other civilian officials have been attacked by al-Qaida. There's a belief that al-Qaida was involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, one of Pakistan's former prime ministers. So there are layers of complexity here and one of the really deep problems that we very certainly have with Pakistan is it seems the Pakistani military and intelligence have tried to divide up their enemies. Some of them they go after very clearly and others of whom they try to make deals with or look the other way on or maybe even collude with. And that's what the story is linked to at this route.