Obama Offers ‘Condolences’ to Pakistan Leader for Border Attack
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U.S. President Barack Obama called Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to “personally express his condolences” regarding a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the White House said in a statement.
The president’s telephone call today came more than a week after the Nov. 25 attack on Pakistani border posts by North Atlantic Treaty Organization aircraft that triggered an angry backlash in Pakistan.