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The United States has warned of severe consequences if a successful extremist attack in America were traced back to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday in an interview with a US television.The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a failed bid to bomb New York's Times Square last Saturday. If proven, it would be the group's first act in the United States. We have gotten more cooperation. It has been a real sea change in the commitment we have seen from the Pakistani government. We want more, we expect more, Clinton said in the interview to be aired on Sunday. We have 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 said, without elaborating. Some analysts have speculated that if the Pakistani Taliban were involved in the Times Square plot, it could be responding to US drone attacks that have killed militants hiding in Pakistan as well as civilians. The United States, which sees Pakistan's effort against militants as crucial to its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, has about 200 military personnel in Pakistan, including Special Operations forces on a training mission. We also have a much better relationship, military to military, intelligence to intelligence, government to government than we had before, Clinton said. I think that there was a double game going on in the previous years, where we got a lot of lip service but very little produced.
