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| Pakistan army denies major's arrest for CIA links |
| 2011-06-16 |
| [Dawn] The Mighty Pak Army denied Wednesday that one of its majors was among a group of Paks who Western officials say were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock for feeding the CIA information before the American raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden. ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... The New York Times, ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... which first reported the arrests of five Pak informants Tuesday, said an army major was jugged who copied license plates of cars visiting the al-Qaeda chief's compound in Pakistain in the weeks before the raid. A Western official in Pakistain confirmed that five Paks who fed information to the CIA before the May 2 operation were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by Pakistain's top intelligence service. But Mighty Pak Army front man Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas ... who is the very model of a modern major general... denied an army major was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock, saying the report was "false and totally baseless." Neither the army nor Pakistain's spy agency would confirm or deny the overall report about the detentions. The group of jugged Paks included the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to observe bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, an army town not far from the Pak capital of Islamabad, a US official said. The owner was jugged along with a "handful" of other Paks, said the official. The Western officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters. The fate of the purported CIA informants who were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock was unclear, but American officials told the Times that CIA Director Leon Panetta raised the issue when he visited Islamabad last week to meet with Pak military and intelligence officers. US-Pak relations have been strained over the raid by Navy SEALs on Pak territory, which embarrassed Pakistain's military, and other issues. |
| Posted by:Fred |