Apr 25th, 2009 - Bloomberg
April 26 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clintonsays the U.S. is worried about the “unthinkable” in Pakistan -- that the Taliban and al-Qaeda could topple the government,giving them “the keys to the nuclear arsenal.”
Clinton, in an interview with Fox News last night inBaghdad, said the U.S. cannot “let this go on any further,which is why we’re pushing so hard for the Pakistanis to cometogether around a strategy to take their country back.”
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