WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'Protected' by Pakistani Security

tekisui

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Tue May-03-11 10:45 AM
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WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'Protected' by Pakistani Security

Source: The Telegraph

American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why they had failed to find bin Laden was that Pakistan�s security services tipped him off whenever US troops approached.

Pakistan�s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID) also allegedly smuggled al-Qaeda terrorists through airport security to help them avoid capture and sent a unit into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.

The claims, made in leaked US government files obtained by Wikileaks, will add to questions over Pakistan�s capacity to fight al-Qaeda.

Last year, David Cameron caused a diplomatic furore when he told Pakistan that it could not �look both ways� on terrorism. The Pakistani government issued a strongly-worded rebuttal.

more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8488236/WikiLeaks-Osama-bin-Laden-protected-by-Pakistani-security.html

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closeupready

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Tue May-03-11 10:46 AM
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1. Disappointing.

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Guy Whitey Corngood

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Tue May-03-11 10:47 AM
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2. Well duh, anybody who's ever read Tariq Ali or any other halfway decent journalist on Pakistan would

Edited on Tue May-03-11 10:49 AM by Guy Whitey Corngood

know this. Ali Asif Zardari is a tool and a corrupt buffoon who's probably kept in the dark half the time by the military and the ISI. (BTW duh was not meant for the OP).

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sasha031

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Tue May-03-11 10:48 AM
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3. well there it is...

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Spinny Liberal

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Tue May-03-11 10:55 AM
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4. That's the way it goes

with frienemies.

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Faygo Kid

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Tue May-03-11 10:56 AM
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5. Pretty obvious now that Pakistan was protecting him.

Not sure what we can do about it, but I really don't want my tax dollars sent over there to prop up a regime that protected Bin Laden.

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tekisui

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Tue May-03-11 11:06 AM
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7. We just agreed to give them $3 billion worth of surveillance drones.

It boggles the mind.

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patrice

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Tue May-03-11 11:02 AM
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6. The weird-ass ripples that were triggered the minute Dick Cheney stepped-over the line into

custom-made "intelligence" . . . . ?

Well, we may never know all of the different triangulations that resulted from that rogue cue-ball compared to whatever actual intelligence professionals were doing.

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patrice

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Tue May-03-11 11:20 AM
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8. Though I suppose precedent had been established by GHWB. Maybe our problem is

that we just have a schizoid/psychotic "intelligence" apparatus in this country.

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