Clinton: Pakistan missed chances

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.

While U.S. officials have said they believe Osama bin Laden and senior lieutenants have been hiding in the rugged terrain along the border with Afghanistan, Clinton’s comments went further as she suggested that Pakistan’s government has done too little to act against al-Qaida’s top echelon.

“I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” Clinton told Pakistani journalists in Lahore. “Maybe that ...