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WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'protected' by Pakistani security
The Telegraph ^ | 5/2/2011 | Tim Ross

Posted on 05/02/2011 11:24:06 AM PDT by mojito

American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why they had failed to find bin Laden was that Pakistan’s security services tipped him off whenever US troops approached.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID) also allegedly smuggled al-Qaeda terrorists through airport security to help them avoid capture and sent a unit into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.

The claims, made in leaked US government files obtained by Wikileaks, will add to questions over Pakistan’s capacity to fight al-Qaeda.

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In December 2009, the government of Tajikistan warned the United States that efforts to catch bin Laden were being thwarted by corrupt Pakistani spies.

According to a US diplomatic dispatch, General Abdullo Sadulloevich Nazarov, a senior Tajik counterterrorism official, told the Americans that “many” inside Pakistan knew where bin Laden was.

The document stated: “In Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden wasn’t an invisible man, and many knew his whereabouts in North Waziristan, but whenever security forces attempted a raid on his hideouts, the enemy received warning of their approach from sources in the security forces.”

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; cultureofcorruption; isi; pakistan; pakitrash; proterrorist; waronterror
Sounds like Benny was the toast of the town.
1 posted on 05/02/2011 11:24:10 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

It’ll be interesting to see what names,numbers, and contact info turns up in Bin Laden’s paper trail/computers.

This administration is going to DROP THE BALL on the War On Terror. They are already declaring “mission accomplished” even though an international criminal conspiracy shielded Osama in the wake of 9-11.


2 posted on 05/02/2011 11:30:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: mojito

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Obama gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/obamas-supplemental-bill-passes-gives-billions-to-enemies/

• $3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
• $400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
• Afghanistan: $1.52 billion, $86 million above the request
• West Bank and Gaza: $665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
• Jordan: $250 million, $250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
• Egypt: $360 million, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance, $50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
• Pakistan: $1.9 billion, $591 million above the request
• Iraq: $968 million, $336 million above the request
• Oversight: $20 million, $13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
• Lebanon: $74 million
• International Food Assistance: $500 million, $200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
• Refugee Assistance: $343 million, $50 million above the request, …including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
• Disaster Assistance: $200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
• Peacekeeping: $837 million for United Nations peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
• Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
The mainstream media remains silent on this but the International News has now picked up the story http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22164
— and then there is Obama’s $108 billion IMF bailout scheme http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/13/obamas-100-billion-imf-bailout-scheme/
in addition to the Supplemental.


3 posted on 05/02/2011 11:30:47 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: mojito

OBL being alive was the raison-d’etre for billions in US aid to corrupt Pakistani elites; the key was for Pakistani leaders to endlessly APPEAR to fight OBL.

Why would they stop the gravvy train?

They harbored him, and they are enemies of the USA, and they should DIE.

They chose.


4 posted on 05/02/2011 11:37:20 AM PDT by gaijin
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5 posted on 05/02/2011 11:41:38 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: gaijin
They chose.

They chose... poorly.

6 posted on 05/02/2011 11:47:28 AM PDT by kevao
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To: mojito

Our “allies”......


7 posted on 05/02/2011 11:59:12 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: mojito

Perhaps time to end all foreign aid to Pakistan, particularly military aid.


8 posted on 05/02/2011 12:18:13 PM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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