<p>"Possibly some of our monies are being diverted to help them increase their missile launch activities for their nuclear weaponry," said Republican Senator Bob Corker, who along with his colleagues received a closed-door briefing on Tuesday by CIA Director Leon Panetta on the bin Laden mission.<br /><br />"So, you know, I think this is a major reset button for us, time for us to really look at this relationship in a serious way."<br /><br />There are a couple of "fertilizer operations" in Pakistan, of which only over 5 per cent is being used for legitimate purposes, he claimed. "Most of it is probably being used to aid our enemy there and making explosives with ammonium nitrate."<br /><br />In an interview to the CNN, Corker, however, conceded that Pakistan, due to its strategic location has leverage over the United States.<br /><br />"They have leverage over us. We have to traverse across their country to even be involved in Afghanistan the way that we are. We depend upon them in a limited way for intelligence and other types of activities," he said.<br /><br />At the same time, they are not doing everything they could do to be the US partner, Corker said.<br /><br />"It's that tension I think all of us are going to be looking at right now. Again, I think these occurrences over the last few days are going to cause everyone to look at this relationship in a very different manner," he said.<br /><br />Since 2002, Pakistan has received some USD 22 billion in US aid.<br /><br />Corker has written a letter to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in this regard.<br />"That was the purpose of my letter to Secretary Clinton and that is ... let's sit down and I want to know more about Pakistan's involvement in numbers of areas."<br /><br />In his letter, Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, requested "details as to the extent of the cooperation received from the Pakistanis and their role in the final operation" that led to the death of bin Laden given the discovery that the dreaded terrorist was living in "comfortable surroundings" near Islamabad.<br /><br />This revelation about bin Laden's whereabouts, Corker wrote, "calls into question whether or not the Pakistanis had knowledge that he was there and did not share that knowledge."</p>
<p>"Possibly some of our monies are being diverted to help them increase their missile launch activities for their nuclear weaponry," said Republican Senator Bob Corker, who along with his colleagues received a closed-door briefing on Tuesday by CIA Director Leon Panetta on the bin Laden mission.<br /><br />"So, you know, I think this is a major reset button for us, time for us to really look at this relationship in a serious way."<br /><br />There are a couple of "fertilizer operations" in Pakistan, of which only over 5 per cent is being used for legitimate purposes, he claimed. "Most of it is probably being used to aid our enemy there and making explosives with ammonium nitrate."<br /><br />In an interview to the CNN, Corker, however, conceded that Pakistan, due to its strategic location has leverage over the United States.<br /><br />"They have leverage over us. We have to traverse across their country to even be involved in Afghanistan the way that we are. We depend upon them in a limited way for intelligence and other types of activities," he said.<br /><br />At the same time, they are not doing everything they could do to be the US partner, Corker said.<br /><br />"It's that tension I think all of us are going to be looking at right now. Again, I think these occurrences over the last few days are going to cause everyone to look at this relationship in a very different manner," he said.<br /><br />Since 2002, Pakistan has received some USD 22 billion in US aid.<br /><br />Corker has written a letter to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in this regard.<br />"That was the purpose of my letter to Secretary Clinton and that is ... let's sit down and I want to know more about Pakistan's involvement in numbers of areas."<br /><br />In his letter, Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, requested "details as to the extent of the cooperation received from the Pakistanis and their role in the final operation" that led to the death of bin Laden given the discovery that the dreaded terrorist was living in "comfortable surroundings" near Islamabad.<br /><br />This revelation about bin Laden's whereabouts, Corker wrote, "calls into question whether or not the Pakistanis had knowledge that he was there and did not share that knowledge."</p>