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India-Pakistan
No formal US request to access bin Laden family
2011-05-11
Pakistain's foreign ministry said Tuesday it had yet to receive a formal request from the United States for access to relatives of the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
 who are being interrogated by Pak officials.
Would that be like how they never received paperwork for CIA contractor Davis, though it was submitted at least thrice?
"The ministry of foreign affairs has not received a formal request from the United States," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua when asked if Pakistain would grant American Sherlocks access to the family.

The White House has asked Islamabad to help counter growing mistrust by granting US Sherlocks access to three of bin Laden's widows found in his compound who could have vital information on Al-Qaeda.
Oh. So they have received a request, just not a formal request. How clever someone is being, to be sure.
A Pak military official told AFP that "so far no decision in this regard has been taken" when asked when Pakistain would grant such access.

"The family's under treatment, they are under protective custody," he said.

Janjua said that no extradition requests been received from the countries of origin of bin Laden's wives -- Yemen and Soddy Arabia.

A US official had earlier told AFP that the United States expects that Pakistain will allow it to question the women "soon" but provided no details.

US and Pak agents will both want to know exactly how much his widows know about how bin Laden came to the Pak city of Abbottabad and who may have been helping him to survive in his hideout -- along with the family -- for up to five years.

Tensions have run high between the two anti-terror allies in the wake of the US commando raid that killed bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, in his compound near the Pak capital.

The United States has demanded an investigation as to how the Al-Qaeda chief could have lived for years in a garrison city less than a mile from a top military academy and only 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Islamabad.

Pakistain has criticised the raid and denied sheltering the man believed to have criminal masterminded the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed 3,000 people.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Meanwhile, over in IRAQ ...

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > AL-QAEDA TERRORIST'S WIDOW TO BE HANGED. Hasna Ali Yehye Hussain, widow + accused-now-convicted, accomplice-in-terror to AQI Leader ABU AYYUB AL-MARRI/MARI.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-05-11 00:52  

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