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| Who tattled on Osama bin Laden? | |
| 2019-12-22 | |
Shuja Nawaz, currently a distinguished fellow, South Asia Centre at the well-known bipartisan think tank, the Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, has revealed additional secrets about the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now beyond all cares and woe...... in his book The Battle for Pakistain: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood (Liberty Publishing Lahore). Pakistain has always wondered about who sneaked on our friend Osama living peacefully in Abbottabad | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Pakistan f---ing delenda est. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-22 21:19 |
| #4 Does America believe that? We here at Rantburg watched it happen in real time I specifically meant the US State dept and advisors, TW. It's a good thing this Prez likes to double check everything they tell him. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-22 20:54 |
| #3 What's shocking to me is that America continues to believe the State of Pakistain had nothing to do with Ossama's getaway from Afghanistan and his stay in Abbotabad. Does America believe that? We here at Rantburg watched it happen in real time — check the archives — and some number of us were then active military and perhaps other things. The frustration since that time has been that the bad guys — trained, supplied, and under the orders of the ISI —could retreat to the safety of the Pakistan side of the Durand Line between expeditions, just as in an earlier generation the Viet Cong were able to retreat to safe havens across the border in, if I recall correctly, Cambodia. Similar things were happening with Al Qaeda in Iraq running across the border into Syria. Sadly, by the time the Taliban were driven out and Saddam Hussein was off his golden throne, the Democrats in Congress had chosen to forget that wars have to be won as well as fought; they refused to allow President George W. Bush any more latitude, and he was not the kind of old-style politico to hold their feet to the fire, while President Obama was happy to manage all sorts of declines. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-22 20:25 |
| #2 What's shocking to me is that America continues to believe the State of Pakistain had nothing to do with Ossama's getaway from Afghanistan and his stay in Abbotabad. Whether a greedy officer told on him or the Pakistani's wished to extinguish America's revenge-momentum in the WOT with his blood is not the mystery. The real mystery is, how Pakistain escaped action from an all-avenging west and managed to keep the WOT focus diverted to the tribal hellhole next door. How the CIA continued to rely on ISI intel, allowed them to 'set up negotiations' with taliban, strut along the durand line like deputized sheriffs. The ridiculous amounts of US taxpayer money sent to them for 'fighting terrorism'. That is what one should really ask. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-22 19:34 |
| #1 The first shocker came when the Pulitzer prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh made it public that a former Pakistani intelligence official had actually informed the Americans about the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden and that a former ISI official had provided the information about his hideout for $25 million in addition to US citizenship “with a new identity.” Who was the bloke? Shocker? We've been saying UBL was 'sold' at the Burg for years, we were just unsure of the price! Nobody flies (undetected) to and from a city like Abbottabad. That's just crazy talk. In the 2006 to 2012 timeframe, if a small US Tigershark drone came anywhere near the AFG-Paki border the Paki's became apoplectic. Their entire border is laced with overlapping fans of Russian radar systems. Multi-lifts flying in, one crashing, conducting a shootout, cross-loading, all in less than an hour totally undetected, no casualties.... the stuff of Hollywood movies. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-12-22 07:24 |