Some Pak officials know where Laden is: Clinton

Hillary Clinton

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said some people in the Pakistani government are aware of the whereabouts of elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar.

 Osama bin Laden

The Obama Administration, meanwhile, for the first time accused Taliban of being behind the botched Times Square bombing plot.

"Some Pakistani officials were more informed about the Al Qaeda and the Taliban than they let on," Clinton told CBS in an interview.

"I'm not saying that they're at the highest levels but I believe that somewhere in this government are people who know where Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda is, where Mullah Omar and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is, and we expect more cooperation to help us bring to justice, capture or kill, those who attacked us on 9/11," she said.

Clinton had over the weekend warned Pakistan that it would face "very severe consequences" if any terror plot like the failed Times Square bombing was traced to that country.

"We've made it very clear that if, heaven forbid, an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences," she had said.

Asked if US was not getting sufficient cooperation from Islamabad in anti-terror drive, the US top diplomat acknowledged there was a "sea change" in cooperation by Pakistani authorities, but added "we want more".