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Musharraf angrily rejected Osama hideout tip and physically threatened Afghan spy chief Saleh
Their intelligence became more precise in 2007 when they believed he was hiding in Manshera, a town a short distance from Abbottabad where the NDS had identified two al-Qaida safe houses.But the former spy chief said that Pervez Musharraf, then president of Pakistan, was outraged at the suggestion that Bin Laden was hiding in such a prominent part of the country. In a meeting with Musharraf and Hamid Karzai the Pakistani president became furious and smashed his fist down on the table. "He said, 'Am I the president of the Republic of Banana?'" Saleh recalled. "Then he turned to President Karzai and said, 'Why have you have brought this Panjshiri guy to teach me intelligence?'" He said Karzai had to intervene as Musharraf got increasingly angry and began to physically threaten Saleh. Afghanistan's former top spy -- who has long been a hate figure in Islamabad among officials who believed he was implacably anti-Pakistani -- also said he had no doubts that Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban movement, was hiding in a safe house owned by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani spy agency, in the city of Karachi. Posted by: john frum 2011-05-06 |
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