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The Bush administration today remained tightlipped on the role played by US intelligence agencies in busting the suspected al-Qaeda plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic and its Pakistani links.
Washington also refused to comment on media reports that pressure was applied on Islamabad to make a ‘‘key arrest’’ that eventually led to a number of arrests in Britian.
‘‘One of the things that we’re doing, of course, is we’re cooperating with the British authorities, and they’re the lead in the investigation and subsequent prosecution and I don’t want to say anything that might in any ways adversely affect the ongoing investigation. I’ll wait for the British authorities to get that information out to the public,’’ US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a TV interview.
US top law enforcement officer refused to confirm or deny a report that pressure was brought on Pakistan to make a arrest that led to nabbing of suspects in the UK.
