8/30/2008: Intel News Brief: US and Pakistan Military Leaders Meet On
Carrier:

(Xinhua) U.S. and Pakistani military leaders met earlier this week to
discuss the growing terror threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

　　Participants included Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff and Pakistani Army chief of staff Ashfaq Pervez
Kayani.

　　The talks, held Tuesday aboard U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln
in the Indian Ocean, focused on how to "better work together to defeat
extremists on the border and to help Pakistan deal with its own
internal threats from extremism."

　　The meeting came amid a growing acknowledgment by U.S. officials
that the Taliban has shifted tactics and is now conducting military-
style attacks against U.S. troops.

　　The U.S. military has been pressing Kayani for months to crack down
on militants in the border region in part because of the growing
number crossing into Afghanistan to attack American troops.

　　Mullen said after the meeting that he is not satisfied with the
efforts to thwart the threat of terrorism in Pakistan, but thought the
U.S.-Pakistani cooperation is moving toward a "right direction."
Source: Morning Intel News Brief via cnhubel-China