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Some U.S. lawmakers have called for suspending aid to Pakistan because of doubts about its dedication in going after violent Islamists.But President Barack Obama's administration has stressed Sale MBT Walking Shoesthe importance of maintaining cooperation with Pakistan in the interests of battling militancy & bringing stability to neighboring Afghanistan.

Debate over whether Bush administration interrogation practices helped find bin Loaded heated up when Senator John McCain said torture of detained militants did not help track down the al MBT Chapa SaleQaeda leader.McCain said CIA Director Leon Panetta had told him the trail to bin Loaded did not -- as some aides to former President George W. Bush have asserted -- start with information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, assaults on the United States who the U.S. government acknowledges was "waterboarded" 183 times.

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