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| Pakistan may have shared OBL's location with US: Former ISI chief |
| 2015-02-12 |
| And I might have dropped 25 pounds last week. [DAWN] Former director general of Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligenceagency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) Lt-Gen (retd) Asad Durrani has said that Pakistain had 'most likely' revealed the position of former Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... to the US, a report published on the Al Jazeera website said. In an interview on Al Jazeera's Head to Head show, the former ISI chief cast doubts over the intelligence agency's official line that it was unaware of the Al Qaeda chief's whereabouts prior to his killing. "I cannot say exactly what happened but my assessment [...] was it is quite possible that they [the ISI] did not know but it was more probable that they did. And the idea was that at the right time, his location would be revealed. And the right time would have been, when you can get the necessary quid pro quo -- if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States," the former head of Pakistain's premier intelligence agency told the host of the show. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Given that Pakistain is less of a nation state and more a collection of waring tribes, factions and bureaucracies, I'd be surprised if someone *didn't rat out OBL. The likely culprit? I dunno. Who hates the ISI the most? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-02-12 17:47 |
| #5 Agree with 3birdman. Time to call everyone home and let a short period of rejoicing commence in the NWF and the various pest holed that pass for cities in the land of the pure. A short period. Very short. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-12 16:29 |
| #4 "And the right time would have been, when you can get the necessary quid pro quo" Be interesting to know what the asking price was. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-02-12 13:39 |
| #3 Basically admitting to harboring the man who led the worst terror attack ever on the US, aught to at the minimum get a nuke attack on the ISI HQ. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-02-12 12:59 |
| #2 Books, movies, Hollywood, the presidential election, not to mention host-nation military coordination, Klingon advance team and polio inoculation cover story, the timing must be just right. All in all, quite a piece of theater. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-02-12 06:05 |
| #1 If you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States," the former head of Pakistain's premier intelligence agency told the host of the show. /Joe Biden |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-12 05:53 |