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World shares blame for 'failure' on bin Laden: Gilani
[Dawn] Pakistain's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that spy agencies around the world share the blame for his country's failure to capture al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden,... who no longer exists... killed by US forces. "Certainly, we have intelligence failure of the rest of the world including the United States," Gilani told news hounds in Gay Paree, where he was meeting with business leaders. "There is intelligence failure of the whole world, not Pakistain alone." Separately La Belle France's foreign minister Alain Juppe said he had dined with Gilani on Tuesday and asked him how bin Laden went uncaught living in a city near Islamabad while being hunted by the United States. "The reply was that it was a failure of the Pak intelligence services, which they have addressed," Juppe told news channel La Belle France 24. But he moved to ease the pressure on Pakistain, a crucial ally in efforts to track cut-thoat groups. "In any case I think we should avoid any antagonism with Pakistain. It is a big country. We have every interest in keeping good relations with it, and it should cooperate," Juppe said. "I hope this will be a turning point in the right direction. The Pak prime minister assured me yesterday of his will to cooperate," Juppe added. "There will be no solution in Afghanistan, no long-lasting political solution, if we do not manage to work in trust with Pakistain." He added that La Belle France was considering a target date of 2014 to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, where it currently has about 4,000 serving in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... force. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-05 |
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