From Nick Childs, the BBC's Pentagon correspondent:

...(T)here is no doubt that both the US and Pakistan are continuing their efforts to squeeze the remnants of al-Qaeda and the Taleban in the key border area which separates Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Co-operation between the US and Pakistani militaries on this front has never been closer.

It's a shame the Bush Administration has squandered the good will of the entire world in the aftermath of 9/11.