PAKISTAN IS PRESIDENT OBAMA PRIVATE NIGHTMARE

Pakistani police officers look at a van destroyed by an explosion in Bannu, Pakistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police van in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing many people, one of them a police officer.

PARIS, French - The newspaper says in the cable traffic through Islamabad that President Barack Obama reportedly confided Pakistan was his "private nightmare."
A February 2009 memo from then-US Ambassador Anne Patterson in Islamabad said "our main worry" wasn't that an entire bomb might be stolen, but that a worker at a Pakistani nuclear site "might bring out enough fissile material to build a bomb."

• Le Monde also reported that in 2007 Pakistan had agreed "in principle" to an operation to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani nuclear reactor, but it was never carried out.
• Pakistan said on Monday it refused the operation because its own nuclear security would prevent the material from getting into the wrong hands.
• If the Pakistani press were to find out about such a withdrawal of highly enriched uranium it would cast the operation as a US seizure of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, one Pakistani official told US embassy staff.

Once-secret US diplomatic cables have revealed concerns by US officials that militants might get access to Pakistani nuclear material, according to a French newspaper report.

Source: AP