If any confirmation is needed that the Pakistani Authorities knew of Osama bin laden staying in Pakistan, this is it.
Pakistan must have been keeping tabs on the CIA operatives.
Otherwise how would they know that they have passed on the information?
Again, even if Pakistan did not know of Osama staying in Pakistan before following the CIA personnel, Pakistan should have known where Osama was staying by following these people.
What action would Pakistan take against the personnel who had information of Osama bin laden?
Or is it still in the denial mode?
The arrest of the CIA informants is like arresting the State’s evidence and letting the Guilty go scot-free!
Pakistan’s intelligence service has arrested the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to observe Osama bin Laden’s compound before the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, as well as a “handful” of other Pakistanis, a U.S. official said late Tuesday.
The Times, in an article posted on its website late Tuesday, said detained informants included a Pakistani army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan in the weeks before the raid.
The fate of the CIA informants who were arrested was unclear, but American officials told the newspaper that CIA Director Leon Panetta raised the issue when he visited Islamabad last week to meet with Pakistani military and intelligence officers…
Pakistan government has denied reports that its intelligence service has arrested five informants of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the raid at Osama bin Laden’s hide out in Abbotabad, Pakistan…
However, a spokesman of Pakistan’s Inter Services Pubilc Relations (ISPR) has strongly refuted the news report.
“There is no army officer detained and the story is false and totally baseless,” the statement from ISPR said.
Another Wound in Strained Relations
Nevertheless, the latest developments add salt to the already strained relationship between U.S. and Pakistan after the Osama raid.
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