Pakistan is extraordinarily complex: Rudd  Print Email
Australian Broadcasting Corporation  Broadcast: 03/05/2011
Reporter: Ali Moore  Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says he will
not make any assumptions about whether anyone in Pakistan was
supporting Osama bin Laden.   ALI MOORE: Foreign Minister Kevin
Rudd is currently in Washington for a series of high-level
meetings on security issues and he spoke to me from there just a
few minutes ago.  Kevin Rudd, thanks for joining us  KEVIN RUDD,
FOREIGN MINISTER: Thanks for having me on the program.  ALI
MOORE: This was a major counter-terrorism operation against the
world's most wanted man. Australia's been a very staunch ally of
the US and the fight against terrorism. We've got a significant
commitment to Afghanistan at a time when other countries are
winding back. How much did we know about what the Americans were
planning?  KEVIN RUDD: Well, we would not expect to be informed
of an operation like this involving high levels of
confidentiality and secrecy. In my di