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The catastrophic truckbomb that killed 50-or-so outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad grabbed the attention of all three newscasts. CBS' Elizabeth Palmer caught up with John Armstrong, a foreign aid worker from upstate New York, who was outside the lobby of the hotel when the explosion happened. "There was just this huge shockwave and I do not know if I was knocked unconscious or how long I laid there." Ann Curry, newscaster for NBC's Today, sat down with Pakistan's new president, Asif ali-Zardari. She asked why his government prohibits US troops from crossing Pakistan's northwest frontier from Afghanistan in order to fight Taliban guerrillas. "Give us the intelligence and we will do the job," he replied, mistaking NBC News for a representative of the US military. "If you do the incursion then the constituency that I am trying to appease, they take it as a foreign war." On ABC, Jim Sciutto found the same resentment against US involvement inside Pakistani territory. It is "so unpopular that Pakistan is refusing to allow the FBI to help investigate Saturday's blast."
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