Pakistain's military has launched an investigation into how the late Osama bin Laden... who has left the building...
was able to live in the country undetected - for up to five years, according to the al-Qaeda leader's wife.
Pakistain has denied any knowledge of bin Laden's whereabouts and the army said on Thursday it would conduct an investigation into failures by its intelligence to detect the world's most wanted man on its own soil.
"COAS made it clear that any similar action violating the illusory sovereignty of Pakistain will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the United States," the army said in a statement, referring to the Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kayani
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Pakistain has been under international pressure to explain why the al-Qaeda chief was able to hide in a compound in a hill town near its capital.
One of bin Laden's wives has told intelligence officials that he'd been living in Pakistain for the past five years.
A Pentagon brasshat said later that the U.S. so far had no "definitive evidence" that Pakistain knew of bin Laden's hideout.
But Michele Flournoy, defense secretary Robert Gates' top policy aide, said Islamabad must now demonstrate, visibly and convincingly, their commitment to defeating al-Qaeda.
Pakistain's foreign ministry said earlier on Thursday that the raid by US commandoes was an "unauthorised unilateral action", conducted without the Pak government's knowledge.
Salman Bashir, Pakistain's foreign minister, warned the US and other countries against future raids in the country on suspected fighters, warning that such actions would have "disastrous consequences".
"We feel that that sort of misadventure or miscalculation would result in a terrible catastrophe," he said on Thursday in Islamabad, the Pak capital. "There should be no doubt Pakistain has adequate capacity to ensure its own defence."
The CIA said it kept Pakistain out of the loop because it feared bin Laden would be tipped off, highlighting the depth of mistrust between the two supposed allies.
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the US secretary of state, said it would stand by Pakistain despite the strain put on the relationship by the discovery of bin Laden so close to the Pak capital.
"It is not always an easy relationship, you know that," she said in Rome, the Italian capital, on Thursday.
"But, on the other hand, it is a productive one for both our countries and we are going to continue to cooperate between our governments, our militaries, our law-enforcement agencies, but most importantly between the American and Pak people."
She also said the US and its allies must continue working with Pakistain to fight al-Qaeda in that country and Afghanistan.
US special forces launched the Monday morning raid with helicopter-borne soldiers attacking a compound in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad. Four other people were also killed in the raid.