US Commandos flew into Pakistan from a Carrier, in a Helicopter and Killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan.
This, in a house located near the Army Barracks/Training School!
There is failure on the part of the Intelligence Agencies and ‘a total collapse of the Government’ in the words of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by Pakistan to look into this fiasco.
The commission has submitted a 365 page report.
This report also explains how the US kept the Pakistani Government in the dark.
Despite the remark by the Commission’s remark ‘that the report may be buried’
It was and never made Public.
Al Jazeera obtained the Report and has published it.
“It is official or unofficial defence policy not to attempt to defend the country if threatened, or even attacked by a military superpower like the US?” the Commission asks of several top military officers.
“From a Pakistani strategic doctrine point of view,” the report notes, while issuing findings on how the military had wholly focused its “peacetime deployment” of defence capabilities on the border with India, “the world stood still for almost a decade.”
Finally, through testimony from Bin Laden’s family and intelligence officials, it provides a fascinating, and richly detailed, account of Bin Laden’s time in Pakistan: his movements, his habits and his pattern of life.
Perhaps aware of the implications of its findings, the Commission notes that it had “apprehensions that the Commission’s report would be ignored, or even suppressed”, and urged the government to release it to the public.
It did not do so. The report was buried by the government and never made public.
Until now.
Al Jazeera has obtained a copy of the Commission’s report, and presents it here, in full, along with accompanying coverage to help unpick the details, and implications of its findings.
Page 197 of the report, which contains part of the testimony of Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, then director of the ISI, was missing from all copies of the report that Al Jazeera obtained from multiple sources. It is unclear what was contained on that page, but the contextual implication is that, among other things, it contains a list of seven demands made by the United States of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/201378131544537700.html
The Document at:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/binladenfiles/2013/07/201378143927822246.html
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