BlinkyOmar is hiding in Bloody Karachi, which I think is almost certainly true, Bruce Riedel a US terrorism expert and a former advisor to President B.O. has said.
Dier Spiegel has interviewed Bruce Riedel about the impact of the late Osama bin Laden's
... who no longer exists...
death on al-Qaeda network and how the US should respond to the double game that Pakistain is playing.
Mr Riedel has told Spiegel that the most interesting development was finding the location where Osama had holed himself up.
He was not hiding in a cave in
Wazoo, he was not in a tribal area along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border. Instead, he was found in Abbottabad which is a garrison city 48 km from Islamabad, Bruce Riedel has said.He has said finding Osama in Abbottabad, which is home to three regiments of the Pakistain army and a retirement city for Pak officers, raised very puzzling and significant questions about who protected Bin Laden over the last several years.
While other senior al-Qaeda officials have been captured in Pakistain, Mr Riedel thinks "it is almost certainly true" that the Taliban leader Mullah Omar is living somewhere in Bloody Karachi.
When asked about who the closest allies of al-Qaeda are in Pakistain, Riedel said it has been known for a long time that al-Qaeda has had close connections with the Pak Taliban which has also cooperated with al-Qaeda in the liquidation of Benazir Bhutto.
But the bigger question is what did the Mighty Pak Army and the Pak intelligence service know? And how high up in the chain of command did that knowledge go?, Spiegel quotes Bruce Riedel as saying.
The US had not informed Pakistain government about the raid on Bin Laden's compound in advance over fears that the mission would be jeopardised.
Asked if that can be seen as an indication of US's concrete suspicion towards Pakistain, Bruce Riedel has said he would rather call it "deep mistrust" than suspicion.
Suspicion is the wrong word; it is deep mistrust. The B.O. regime has never had any illusions about Pakistain. I think they understood right from the beginning that Pakistain was playing a double game -- or at least that the Mighty Pak Army was. But this will reinforce those concerns and lead to tensions," he has said.
He has said no one believes that President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
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had any knowledge of Bin Laden's whereabouts as Zardari's wife, Benazir Bhutto, was murdered by al-Qaeda and Pak Taliban.
He has also added that Zardari's government is globally considered weak and unable to control Pak intelligence services.
Obama and the West should now focus on strengthening the civilian government while being concerned about the military, Mr Riedel has said.
He has said the reason for ISI's support of al-Qaeda could be loyalty to the common cause of global jihad, anti-Americanism or a combination of motives.
President B.O. is said to be travelling to Pakistain this year and Mr Riedel has said the US President must signal how serious he is about democracy in Pakistain.