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Article: Pak, S Arabia pose greater threats than either Iraq, Afghanistan: Gen. Abizaid
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- May 16, 2007
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Lahore, May 16 -- Pakistan and Saudi Arabia pose greater threats for the West than either Iraq or Afghanistan, General John Abizaid, who headed the US Central Command from 2003 to 2007, has said.
General Abizaid said: "the two biggest problems" to the west "were not necessarily Afghanistan and Iraq. They may very well be Pakistan and Saudi Arabia".
"The two countries are struggling with their external and internal security problems and, in the case of Pakistan, with the fact that it happens to be a nuclear state," said General Abizaid at an Australian Defence College and Royal United Services Institute security ...