'Expected my most difficult call with Zardari': Obama recalls Abbottabad raid
India TV NewsFormer U.S. President Barack Obama recalled the successful Abbottabad raid to kill Al Qaeda chief and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in May 2011 and shared what his apprehensions were back then. In his latest book, "A Promised Land", Obama wrote on his journey from the 2008 election campaign to the end of his first term with the daring Abbottabad raid. The 44th U.S. President, in his new book, wrote that he had expected his "most difficult call" to be with Pakistan's beleaguered president Asif Ali Zardari post the operation. "Although Pakistan's government cooperated with us on a host of counterterrorism operations and provided a vital supply path for our forces in Afghanistan, it was an open secret that certain elements inside the country's military, and especially its intelligence services, maintained links to the Taliban and perhaps even al-Qaeda, sometimes using them as strategic assets to ensure that the Afghan government remained weak and unable to align itself with Pakistan's number one rival, India.
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