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| World shares blame for 'failure' on bin Laden: Gilani |
| 2011-05-05 |
| [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 |
| #3 I've had a change of heart. Ole Gilani may actually have a point. It wasn't like OBL was living in a slum or under a rock or changing safe houses every day. He was in this big old house with an odd looking cantonment area around it. It should have drawn some attention after all Pakistan is crawling with US, Brit, French, Israeli, Indian, Russian and goodness knows whoever else's spies. There aren't enough tables in the tea shops for all of these guys bristling their mustaches at each other. Geez, the ISI was so busy keeping up with the roster of who's in town they didn't have much time to check on odd old guys giving away rabbits. I think there were a lot of good solid intel operatives smacking themselves on the forehead over this one. Heck, everytime they bug the Pakistani military school, they would have driven right past the place. He really did do everything except put a neon sign on the roof "Binny's" |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-05 23:57 |
| #2 ION WAFF > PAKISTAN ARMY: 100 TOP-LEVEL AL-QAIDA LEADERS + OPERATORS KILLED OR ARRESTED BY ISI | PAKISTAN [Army] ISSUES VEILED THREAT TO US THAT A REPEAT OF ABBOTTABAD-LIKE VIOLATIONS WOULD WARRANT A REVIEW OF MILITARY + INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION WID US, SAYS KAYANI. and * SAME > [DailyMail.UK] RADICAL MUSLIMS ALREADY [Re-]NAME BIN LADEN SEA BURIAL LOCATION [North Arabian Sea] AS "MARTYR'S SEA", as per leading UK Islamic-Muslim Scholar Abdal Hakim Marad. ARTIC = Contrary to US intentions, the sea location = region in Arabian Sea where the USS CARL VINSON CVN is believed to had buried Osama is now deemed an ISLAMIC/MUSLIM HOLY "SHRINE" TO OSAMA??? ----------- Since OBL was a self-proclaimed fan of WHITNEY HUSTON, anyone in Hollywood or the MSM-Net get her take yet??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-05 22:57 |
| #1 I think ole Gilani would have better luck selling the alien abduction story than this. Are all citizens of Pakistan required to smoke hash four times a day? That has to be the only explanation for some of the "amazing" journalism coming out of that country. Have those merry pranksters over in covert ops spiked the drinking water again? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-05 11:48 |