The move comes after Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another John Quincy Adams...
presented the Paks with the US list of most-wanted terrorism targets, US and Pak officials said Wednesday. The list includes some groups the Paks have been reluctant to attack, US officials said.
It's one of a host of confidence-building measures meant to restore trust blown on both sides after US forces tracked down and killed al Qaeda criminal mastermind the late Osama bin Laden
... who is currently warming his feet by the fire with Hitler and Himmler...
during a secret raid in Pakistain last month.
But it also amounts to a new test of loyalty for both sides. The Paks say the US has failed to share its best intelligence, instead running numerous unilateral spying operations on its soil.
US officials say they need to see the Paks target Death Eaters they've long sheltered, including the Haqqani network, which operates with impunity in the Pak tribal areas while attacking US troops in Afghanistan.
All those interviewed spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.
The US and Pakistain have engaged in a diplomatic stare-down since the May 2 raid, with the Paks outraged over the unilateral action as an affront to its illusory sovereignty and the Americans angry to find that bin Laden had been hiding for more than five years in a military town just 35 miles from the capital, Islamabad.
The US deliberately hid the operation from Pakistain, recipient of billions in counterterrorism aid, for fear that the operation would leak to thugs.
A series of high-level US visits has aimed to take the edge off. Marc Grossman, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistain, and CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell met with intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha last month. Last week, the secretary of state and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Mike Mullen, held a day of intensive meetings with top Pak military and civilian officials.
After that outreach, Pakistain allowed the CIA to re-examine the bin Laden compound last Friday. Pakistain also returned the tail section of a US stealth Black Hawk helicopter that broke off when the SEALs blew up the aircraft to destroy its secret noise- and radar-deadening technology.
The CIA has also shared some information gleaned from the raid, and Pakistain has reciprocated, US and Pak officials said Wednesday.
The investigative team will be made up mainly of intelligence officers from both nations, according to two US officials and one Pak official.