President Obama,in his first address on Osama Bin Laden‘s killing informed that no other Nation,including Pakistan was informed.
His latest statement as found below is more credible.
Consider the facts.
The house , Million Dollar one at that was located about 90 kms from Islamabad,Capital of Pakistan.
It was about 100 meters away from Military Academy.
Link.http://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Osama’s whereabouts lead was obtained in September 2010 and CIA operatives have been tracking him down since.
Helicopters used in the Operation took off from a US Navy vessel.
And the site is deep within Pakistan.
None could fly with out the approval of the Pakistan Authorities.
In a statement, Obama said he also spoke to President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday night. “It is important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to Bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding,” Obama said, acknowleding the Pakistani cooperation.
He told Americans on Sunday night ten years after 9/11 terrorist attacks that “justice has been done.” Obama noted that indeed Bin Laden had declared a war against Americans and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.
“Tonight I called President Zardari and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts.” Obama said “they agree that it was a good and historic day for both of our nations”.
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Read what an Ex.CIA have to say.
Although I had left the CIA before 9/11, I can well imagine its internal conversations on bin Laden’s whereabouts. Every time a junior analyst suggested the al-Qaeda was hiding in Pakistan proper — perhaps in a military cantonment area like the one in which he was killed — an old hand would have jumped in telling him that was too far-fetched to even discuss. “It’s not in Pakistan’s interest to hide bin Laden,” the argument would run. “They get too much money from us. The generals who run the country are smarter than that. And anyhow where’s the intelligence?” There were no intercepts of bin Laden calling from Pakistan proper; no defectors showing up putting him there.
Not surprisingly, of course, bin Laden after Tora Bora went off the digital grid. No emails, no cell phones, no Twitter. He apparently didn’t even have TV in the compound he was living in, and even buried his trash. That may have explained the absence of hard intelligence, and the reason that his whereabouts were a blank slate — at least, apparently, until a courier was followed to the compound.
Catching bin Laden in Pakistan was a brilliant intelligence coup. And the Administration played it brilliantly as well, recovering bin Laden’s corpse to prove the man’s dead. But being someone who’s never satisfied, I’d still like an explanation of why I’m wrong to suspect official Pakistani complicity. Or, if I’m right, to explain what’s going on in that country and what, if anything, we intend to do about it.
Robert Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, is TIME.com’s intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.
Salman Bashir,the country’s foreign secretary
told the BBC that US statements suggesting they were not trusted with details of raid was ‘disquietening.’
CIA chief Leon Panetta has said no intelligence was shared with Pakistanfor fear the raid would be jeopardised.
“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, said Mr Bashir.
“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.
“Therefore this whole context that seems to have surfaced about the lack of trust is, in my view, sort of misplaced.”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2069012,00.html#ixzz1LIPDEqzs
http://tangibleinfo.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-4-helicopters-google-maps-pre.html
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