Posted on 06/15/2011 6:42:15 AM PDT by darkside321
Pakistan has arrested five alleged informants for the CIA who helped in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in northern Pakistan in May, US media report.
Among those held by the intelligence agency, the ISI, was the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to watch Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, the New York Times reported.
The raid strained US-Pakistan ties.
US President Barack Obama said "someone" was protecting Bin Laden.
Pakistan has denied knowing Bin Laden's whereabouts and denied the New York Times report, in particular its claim that an army major was among those arrested.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on a recent visit to Pakistan that there was "absolutely no evidence that anyone at the highest level of the Pakistani government" knew where Bin Laden was. 'Interrogated'
"No Pakistani soldier is under arrest, but we are interrogating several people whom we suspect of having been working for American intelligence services," Inter Services Public Relations spokesman Brigadier Azmat Abbas told the BBC.
He said that among those arrested were people "captured during a raid at a house located close to the Bin Laden compound".
"We suspect them of having been working for CIA," he said.
"Others being interrogated include people who used to visit the compound."
Brig Abbas said that two categories of people were among those arrested - those who threw flares into the Bin Laden compound to guide approaching US helicopters and those who helped the helicopters refuel within Pakistani territory.
In the wake of Bin Laden's death many American agents have been forced to leave Pakistan, while Pakistani officials and civilians suspected of helping the CIA may soon appear in court...
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Pakistan should be made into an example like Carthage.
They know Obambi will do nothing about it
ALL of Islamdom should be treated like Carthage and each and every Muslim sent the way of the Carthaginians and Dodo Birds.
Oh, he'll do something all right. He'll toss them another 5 or 10 billion in "aid".
Pakistan should be made into an example like Carthage.
I agree. Let’s add Somalia to that list while we are at it.
Not good . . .
now that they have open military guarantees from china, they aren’t wasting any time.
Pakistan is, was, and always will be the usurper’s friend and America’s enemy.
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