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2015-05-18 India-Pakistan

There's an uncomfortable mystery behind UBL living in Pakistan for 5 years

[Business Insider] When the US found Osama bin Laden hiding in a walled compound less than a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy, questions arose about what the country's intelligence agency (ISI) knew about the world's most wanted terrorist hiding in its own backyard.

Journalist Seymour Hersh recently wrote that the US Navy SEAL raid was not unilateral as reported. Instead, Hersh asserts, the mission was fully backed by Pakistan's army commander and the head of the ISI after the US threatened to expose that the ISI had been sheltering bin Laden for at least five years.

Journalists and experts disputed much of Hersh's thinly sourced account. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the US at the time of the May 2011 raid, subsequently wrote that Hersh's claims regarding Pakistan's role in and knowledge of the raid "simply do not add up."

In any case, a wealth of information has been uncovered in recent years pointing to ISI complicity in harboring bin Laden, even as the Obama administration's interest in demanding answers from the Pakistani government waned rather quickly in the months following the successful raid.
In other news: Champ approves Syrian mission to kill or capture ISIS Moneyman Abu Sayyaf. Recent Hersh UBL story takes back burner as planned.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-18 03:18|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 I wouldn't be completely surprised if it was a UBL double, and, Obama knew it when he authorized the mission. Those people in the White House.....

Posted by jvalentour 2015-05-18 08:19|| 2015-05-18 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 NOTHING about Pakistan's role in and knowledge of UBL's long residence in Pak and the raid adds up - then or now, regardless of what Hersh wrote.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-18 08:51|| 2015-05-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Was there not a quote from one of Osama's wives when ISI showed up after the raid where she said "now you get here"?

Posted by airandee 2015-05-18 08:57|| 2015-05-18 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I find Hersh's claim that UBL was being kept as a bargaining chip totally believable. That is how things are done in that part of the world.

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Posted by frozen al 2015-05-18 12:46|| 2015-05-18 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 An interesting BBC story from 5 years ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-18 12:59|| 2015-05-18 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The mystery is spelled "ISI"

Posted by OldSpook 2015-05-18 13:41|| 2015-05-18 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 FYI I was hearing stories about ISI involvement with keeping OBL as a leverage against the U.S. For years. And by keeping, i mean supporting his operations at least partially to keep OBL from trying too hard to bolt.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-05-18 13:43|| 2015-05-18 13:43|| Front Page Top

#8 So... Why aren't the ISI having a spate of workplace accidents?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-05-18 18:43|| 2015-05-18 18:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Personally I do have strong doubts that OBL was "officially" killed at Abbottabad, given both of our links to the CIA during the 1980's anti-Soviet Afghan war + other, + the detected physical presence of certain top USG Personages during his so-called "burial at sea".

Iff it is true that Osama was secretly buried in Pakistan after Abbottabad, then POTUS Bammer + Admin have been "officially" + publicly lying to mainstream America all this time, + continues to do so by insisting that Osama was buried at sea.

WELCOME TO "BLACK/COVERT OPS", AMERIKA, PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD OF IT???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-05-18 20:03|| 2015-05-18 20:03|| Front Page Top

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