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| Obama Says Bin Laden Had 'Support Network' in Pakistan |
| 2011-05-09 |
| [An Nahar] the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... had a "support network" in Pakistain but it is not clear if the Pak government was involved, U.S. President Barack B.O.Obama said in his first public comments on the issue. The fact that bin Laden turned up in leafy Abbottabad, home to the Pak equivalent of the West Point and Sandhurst military academies, just two hours' drive north of Islamabad, has been greeted with incredulity. "We think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin Laden inside of Pakistain," Obama told the CBS show "60 Minutes," according to excerpts of an interview released Sunday. "But we don't know who or what that support network was. We don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that's something that we have to investigate and, more importantly, the Pak government has to investigate." The Pak government has promised a probe but rejected charges that faceless myrmidons like bin Laden are extended safe haven. "They have indicated they have a profound interest in finding out what kinds of support networks bin Laden might have had," said Obama. "But these are questions that we're not going to be able to answer three or four days after the event. It's going to take some time for us to be able to exploit the intelligence that we were able to gather on site." Since the pre-dawn raid last Monday that killed bin Laden, the number one enemy of the United States, outraged U.S. politicians have called for billions of dollars in aid to Pakistain to be cut back or pulled entirely. The B.O. regime last year said it would seek another $2 billion for Pakistain's military, on top of a five-year, $7.5 billion civilian package approved in 2009 aimed at weakening the allure of Islamic Islamic exemplars. For a decade, Islamabad has been America's wary Afghan war ally, despite widespread public opposition and beturbanned goon kabooms across the nuclear-armed country that have killed several thousand people. Pakistain has never been fully trusted by either Kabul or Washington, which accuse its powerful military of fostering the Afghan Taliban it spawned during the 1980s resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Pak intelligence officials deny the nation's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had any idea bin Laden was holed-up in a compound in Abbottabad, which was raided in 2003 while still under construction. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 No sh*t, Sherlock. |
| Posted by: Heriberto Shusonter9790 2011-05-09 22:37 |