US receives Pakistani complaint on FBI sting operation

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US State Department confirmed it had received a complaint from Pakistan over an American sting operation that had reportedly put the life of Islamabad's UN envoy at risk.

Adam Ereli, the department's deputy spokesman, said the Pakistani government had expressed concern with the US embassy in Islamabad about a recent FBI (news - web sites)-led operation in New York to catch potential money launderers.

In that operation, according to reports, a US secret agent had posed as a terrorist seeking to buy missiles to kill Munir Akram, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations (news - web sites), in a bid to catch potential money launderers.
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"It is mind-boggling why they could not use the name of an American functionary," he said.

Khan added: "This has increased our ambassador's and our mission's vulnerability. This technique and methodology is tantamount to autosuggestion and could have endangered the life of our ambassador."

"We hope that the US will realize its mistake and give instructions for rectifying this faulty methodology," Khan said.

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[Moderator]

1. The dateline of the story is August 9th - not late breaking news