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| Pakistan would have caught bin Laden if knew his hideout: Haqqani | |
| 2011-05-09 | |
| [Dawn] Pakistain on Sunday said if it knew the late Osama bin Laden ... doesn't live anywhere anymore... was hiding in the country, it would have acted against the al Qaeda leader, who was taken out by US forces in an operation in Abbottabad. "If any member of the Pak government, the Pak military or the Pak intelligence service knew where Osama bin Laden was, we would have taken action," Islamabad's ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani told ABC This Week. "Osama bin Laden's presence in Pakistain was not to Pakistain's advantage," he added. Pakistain is pursuing an investigation to understand how the al Qaeda leader could have been hiding in a prominent town. It is premature to reveal the details of the investigation, said Haqqani. Punishment, if warranted, will be delivered, he added. "Heads will roll once the investigation has been completed," Haqqani said. "Now if those heads are rolled on account of incompetence, we will share that information with you, and if, God forbid, somebody's complicity is discovered, there will be zero tolerance for that as well." The channel reported that Pak officials have interviewed at least one of Bin Laden's wives. "We understand that one of the wives never left the same floor as Osama bin Laden because they were paranoid of physical movement, they didn't go to windows, they didn't have any fresh air," the Pak ambassador revealed. US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, appearing on the same program, said there is no indication that Pak political, military or intelligence leadership ever knew about Osama bin Laden's presence in a compound in the hilly town of Abbottabad.
"What we do, Mr. (Tom) Donilon will know," Haqqani told ABC host Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour. Critics of the US-Pakistain alliance exist in both countries, Haqqani added, but at the end of the day, it is a mutually beneficial relationship that will continue despite "complaining and carping." "We are allies and partners who need each other," said Haqqani. He also asked people in the United States to understand the Pak perspective and the ground realities. Washington also has a job to reach out and clear itself to the Paks, he said. Islamabad, he said, has noted with satisfaction that bin Laden has been eliminated but it objects to any foreign intervention into its territory. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Funny. I was under the impression that they did catch him. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-05-09 15:02 |
| #3 If you can't trust a Haqqani who can you trust |
| Posted by: chris 2011-05-09 12:10 |
| #2 Hence its in their interest to keep the war/jihadis going! Perhaps the solution would be to arm the Taliban. If Pakistan gets nervous enough, they will kill them themselves. If the Taliban win, we can go whomp them at will. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-05-09 10:30 |
| #1 "We are allies and partners who need each other," said Haqqani They need our money to survive but do we them post Afghanistan?Hence its in their interest to keep the war/jihadis going! |
| Posted by: Angeretle Snore6772 2011-05-09 08:14 |