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Pakistan ISI Chief Lt.-Gen. Pasha Heads For U.S. To Discuss Bin Laden Issue, Is Sought By New York Court (Memri).Lt.-Gen. Shuja Pasha, the chief of Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who is sought by a New York court for his agency’s...
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Newsmax: Daughter, 12, Claims bin Laden Caught, Then Shot Osama bin Laden's 12-year-old daughter has told senior Pakistani officials that U.S. forces captured her father alive and then shot him, according to Alarabia.net. The shooting occurred within...
- “bin Laden Believed “his Network Was Strong Enough He’d Get A Heads-up” Before Any U.s. Strike Against Him.”
Politico:Osama bin Laden had cash totaling 500 Euros and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed — sure signs that he was prepared to flee his compound at a moment’s notice — top U.S. intelligence officials told members of...
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WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'protected' by Pakistani security Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret US government files. Image 1 of 2...
- Fuck Your Sovereignty, Mushy
We did what you and the Pakistanis refused (and prevented others from) to do for ten years. Maybe you would have preferred we just drop something in the ten kiloton range on that compound? Washington Times: Musharraf: Bin Laden mission violated Pakistan...
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Evidence at bin Laden’s home raises nuclear concerns
Pakistani government links suspected
A supporter of a Pakistani religious group Jamaat-e-Islami burns a tire during an anti-American rally Friday in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Osama bin Laden was killed by a helicopter-borne U.S. military force on Monday, in a fortress-like compound on the outskirts of Abbottabad. (Associated Press)
Intelligence analysts are sifting through phone numbers and email addresses found at Osama bin Laden’s compound to determine potential links to Pakistani government and military officials while U.S. officials and analysts raise concerns about the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear materials.
According to three U.S. intelligence officials, the race is on to identify what President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has called bin Laden’s “support system” inside Pakistan. These sources sought anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to reporters.
“My concern now is that we cannot exclude the possibility that officers in the Pakistani military and the intelligence service were helping to harbor or aware of the location of bin Laden,” said Olli Heinonen, who served as the deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 2005 to 2010.
“What is to say they would not help al Qaeda or other terrorist groups to gain access to sensitive nuclear materials such as highly enriched uranium and plutonium?”
The U.S. has worried quietly about the infiltration of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and military for years. Those concerns heightened in recent months when the CIA learned that bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad was a stone’s throw from Pakistan's military academy.
Politico first reported this week that CIA Director Leon E. Panetta told members of Congress that bin Laden’s clothing had two phone numbers sewn into it at the time of the raid. Those numbers and other contacts found at the compound are key clues in an effort to determine what elements of Pakistan’s national security establishment provided support to bin Laden and al Qaeda.
“I can tell you that concern about al Qaeda and other terrorists’ infiltration into the ISI is not new on the part of the Congress or the [George W.] Bush and Obama administrations,” said Rep. Steve Rothman, a New Jersey Democrat who serves on two House Appropriations subcommittees that fund defense and foreign aid.
Mr. Rothman has attended top-secret briefings on the Abbottabad raid and the impact of the raid on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“As a matter of course, and for good reason, the materials that were removed from bin Laden’s home in Pakistan are being run down for leads that could assist the United States in apprehending individuals or entities who have sought to harm Americans or who have enabled others to harm Americans,” he said.
Another U.S. intelligence official told The Washington Times that other phone numbers and emails were recovered in the raid.
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Pakistan ISI Chief Lt.-Gen. Pasha Heads For U.S. To Discuss Bin Laden Issue, Is Sought By New York Court (Memri).Lt.-Gen. Shuja Pasha, the chief of Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who is sought by a New York court for his agency’s...
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Newsmax: Daughter, 12, Claims bin Laden Caught, Then Shot Osama bin Laden's 12-year-old daughter has told senior Pakistani officials that U.S. forces captured her father alive and then shot him, according to Alarabia.net. The shooting occurred within...
- “bin Laden Believed “his Network Was Strong Enough He’d Get A Heads-up” Before Any U.s. Strike Against Him.”
Politico:Osama bin Laden had cash totaling 500 Euros and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed — sure signs that he was prepared to flee his compound at a moment’s notice — top U.S. intelligence officials told members of...
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WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'protected' by Pakistani security Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret US government files. Image 1 of 2...
- Fuck Your Sovereignty, Mushy
We did what you and the Pakistanis refused (and prevented others from) to do for ten years. Maybe you would have preferred we just drop something in the ten kiloton range on that compound? Washington Times: Musharraf: Bin Laden mission violated Pakistan...