Pakistan Will Return Helicopter Tail

Pakistan has agreed to return the tail of the U.S. helicopter that broke down during the May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, Sen. John Kerry said Monday. The move is intended to reduce recently heightened tensions between Pakistan and the United States. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Pakistan since the raid, and he said meetings with civilian and military leadership had yielded “a specific series of steps that will be implemented in order to get the relationship on track.” The first step is the return of the helicopter tail in an attempt to preserve U.S. military secrets. Kerry also sought to reassure Pakistani leaders over the bin Laden mission, saying that the U.S. couldn’t have done it without information provided by Pakistan, and that U.S. leaders kept the mission secret from Pakistan’s military not because they didn’t trust them, but because of the importance of “operational security.”