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| US media's new slight rejected by military |
| 2011-06-26 |
| [Dawn] The Inter-Services Public Relations on Friday reacted sharply to a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report suggesting that a krazed killer group with ties to ISI could have functioned as the late Osama bin Laden's ... who now dances with worms... support network in Pakistain, saying Pak military's counter-terrorism efforts spoke louder than the NYT's words. "Pakistain and its security agencies have suffered the most at the hands of Al Qaeda and have delivered the most against the terror outfit; our actions on the ground speak louder than the words of the Times," ISPR Director General Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said. The NYT story titled 'Seized phone offers clues to Bin Laden's Pak links' said: "The cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistain last month, contained contacts to a krazed killer group that is a longtime asset of Pakistain's intelligence agency." Quoting anonymous officials, the daily said the discovery indicated that Bin Laden used the group, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, as part of his support network inside the country. The cellphone numbers, NYT said, provided one of the most intriguing leads yet in the hunt for the answer to an urgent and vexing question for Washington: How was it that Bin Laden was able to live comfortably for years in Abbottabad? The Harkat, the report claimed, had deep roots in the area around Abbottabad and the group's chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil lives unbothered by Pak authorities on the outskirts of Islamabad. Some of the phone numbers of Harkat commanders retrieved from the courier's cellphone were in turn determined to have called Pak intelligence officials. Gen Athar said "the army rejects the insinuations made in the story". "It is part of a well-orchestrated campaign against our security institutions," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Lies, damned lies, and Pakistanis. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2011-06-26 14:45 |
| #1 Some of the phone numbers of Harkat commanders retrieved from the courier's cellphone were in turn determined to have called Pak intelligence officials. Gen Athar said "the army rejects the insinuations made in the story". "It is part of a well-orchestrated campaign against our security institutions," he added. "They were all wrong numbers. Everyone knows those HuM guys aren't very bright," he said. "Except that New York Times reporter -- how did he miss what everyone knows?" |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-26 12:18 |