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| Pakistan alerted US about compound in 2009: Bashir |
| 2011-05-05 |
| [Dawn] Pakistain alerted the US to its suspicions about a compound where the late Osama bin Laden ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water... was found hiding as far back as 2009, Pak Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on Wednesday. Bashir also hit out at "disquieting" comments by CIA Director Leon Panetta that US officials had ruled out informing Islamabad in advance about Sunday's US raid on the Pak compound which led to the al Qaeda chief's death. Asked in a BBC radio interview about the compound in Abbottabad where the al Qaeda chief was discovered, Bashir said: "This particular location was pointed out by our intelligence quite some time ago to the US intelligence. "Of course they have a much more sophisticated equipment to evaluate and to assess." "We had indicated this compound as far back as 2009 as a possible place," Bashir added, although he added it was not known at the time bin Laden was hiding there and there were "millions" of other suspect locations. On Panetta's comments, the Pak official said: "I know for sure that we have extended every cooperation to the US including the CIA as well as to other countries so far as the campaign against terror is concerned. "In terms of success in what is called global anti-terror, Pakistain has played a pivotal role so it is a little disquieting when we hear comments like this." On the decision not to inform Pakistain about the raid, Panetta told Time magazine that "it was decided that any effort to work with the Paks could jeopardise the mission: They might alert the targets." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 WAFF > PAK ISI OFFICIAL:"IT WAS PART OF THE JOINT EFFORT + LEAD WAS GIVEN BY ISI", to the US. Bilateral US-PAK military + INTEL cooperation + sharing agz wily dastardly sneaky Osama ... versus * DAILY TIMES.PK > BIN LADEN [death = killing] WILL NOT END PAK-US "MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE". * SAME > US VOWS TO FIND OUT IFF PAKISTAN SHELTERED BIN LADEN. And Islamabad wants to make it absolutely positively categorically undeniably .....@etc. bet-your-Wives-n-Camel crystal clear that its roughly US$3.0 +/- Bilyuhn a year in US aid has nothing to do wid anything. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-05 00:32 |