11 Countries With More Problems Than America

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Pakistan

(Khalid Tanveer/AP)

It's a so-called American ally, yet Pakistan apparently harbored Osama bin Laden for years. Exasperated American officials are now turning up the heat, leaking evidence of Pakistani ties to terrorists and other nefarious deeds, such as the government's alleged role in the torture and death of a prominent Pakistani journalist earlier this year.