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2011-05-04 India-Pakistan

Pakistan has bin Laden wife, children in custody

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Posted by Fred 2011-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 "Had we known where he was, we would have gotten him ourselves," the official said. Matthew 6:3 ends with the Pak proverb: "let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-04 00:21|| 2011-05-04 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 "Daughter had seen her father rubbed out by US forces" > HMMMMM, HMMMMMMM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-04 01:02|| 2011-05-04 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 [PAULA "YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER" ABDUL here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-04 01:04|| 2011-05-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 "It looks bad," he said. "It makes us look like a fool or an idiot. It's pretty embarrassing."

no, it makes you look like a duplicitous lying asshole. The mask has slipped. I hope we nabbed ISI persons or data on the raid

Posted by Frank G 2011-05-04 07:52|| 2011-05-04 07:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Those computers and hard drives should be chock full of such tasty information. Many are the Paks, inside and outside of ISI, who're thinking up plausibly deniable things...

Posted by Fred 2011-05-04 09:04|| 2011-05-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't suppose we could have scooped up all the hard drives and, when the press asked what else the SEAL team found in the ~~palace~~ shack other than Binny, replied, "oh, nothing much."

Posted by Steve White 2011-05-04 09:17|| 2011-05-04 09:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Exactly correct COL P., that is why we are not hearing a great deal out of them just yet. They are awaiting our response. The old 'let's wait and see what they know that we know, that... we know' game. Why rush into it. Plenty of time to look stupider.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-05-04 09:21|| 2011-05-04 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Excuses, excuses: Pak FM sez they told US that the compound was a possible hideout in 2009.

Link

Posted by RandomJD 2011-05-04 09:49|| 2011-05-04 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 He said there was not enough room for the group on the other helicopters, which were transporting bin Laden's body, other male captives and the commandos.

The evil Americans are going to do in the womenfolk after they are done raping and torturing them, I suppose?

And now that we know Obean knew that we had a bead on UBL et. al., we can also assume that he knew we needed a place to put them if we did get our hands on them. And it makes sense that this would be the moment he stopped opposing Gitmo.

Posted by gorb 2011-05-04 10:41|| 2011-05-04 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 About those computers and hard drives:

Navy SEALs grabbed 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices, including flash drives, DVDs and documents. The SEALs also confiscated phone numbers from bin Ladens body...

I'm getting chills just thinking about it -- d'you suppose this is why there's been a shortage of ADHD meds lately, as they stocked up against projected need?

It's probably a good thing I have neither computer skillz nor a security clearance... ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-04 11:20|| 2011-05-04 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 A real Sneaky Pete? Or a tired old man co-opted and run by the ISI?

Anybody got a razor? Mr. Ockham?...

Posted by mojo 2011-05-04 17:03|| 2011-05-04 17:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Pakistan hit back Wednesday about US fears that it could not be trusted with details of the raid on osama bin Laden's compound and claimed it had identified the potential hideout as far back as 2009.

And just exactly was it that you did about it? Did the US command you not to investigate or something? Did you have one of the flunkies there at the academy go tour the residence? Or is unreasonable search and seizure against the Pakistani constitution?

The foreign minister, Salman Bashir, said CIA chief Leon Panetta's suggestion that Pakistan could have tipped off the al Qaeda leader and jeopardized Sunday's operation was "disquieting."

Yeah, I'm sure you're all shocked and amazed. BTW, how careful do you have to be with your secrets over there at ISI HQ?

"He is entitled to his views, but I know for sure that we have extended every cooperation to the US, including the CIA, and to other countries as far as the campaign against terror is concerned," Bashir told the BBC. "All the significant al Qaeda people who have been picked up, it was done by the ISI [Pakistan's Intelligence Service], from Pakistan towns and cities."

Yeah, for once, I'll bet they've all been picked up. Just like everyone else we've asked you to pick up.

Bashir went on to claim that the ISI passed on its suspicions about the compound in Abbottabad two years ago.

Yeah, along with 50,000 other tips. And I'm sure this one had some kind of special priority as compared to all the others.

"The fact is, on this particular occasion, it was pointed out by our intelligence quite some time ago to the US intelligence," he said. "We had indicated as far back as 2009 [it was] a possible place."

Heck, I recommended they investigate myself!

Bashir added that there were "millions" of other potential locations for bin Laden and that Pakistan had concentrated on the "caves and hideouts."

And any stragglers from the lawless areas, too.

Posted by gorb 2011-05-04 17:15|| 2011-05-04 17:15|| Front Page Top

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