Will say anything...Can we say "Al-taqiyya"!
Posted on 05/08/2011 8:38:55 AM PDT by DGHoodini
Osama bin Laden is shown pointing in this video frame grab released by the U.S. Pentagon May 7, 2011. REUTERS/Pentagon/Handout
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CHAK SHAH MOHAMMAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security officials reacted with scepticism on Sunday to a U.S. assertion that Osama bin Laden was actively engaged in directing his far-flung network from his compound in Abbottabad where he was killed on May 2.
Washington said on Saturday that, based on a trove of documents and computer equipment seized in the raid, bin Laden's hideout north of Islamabad was an "active command and control centre" for al Qaeda where he was involved in plotting future attacks on the United States.
"It sounds ridiculous," said a senior intelligence official. "It doesn't sound like he was running a terror network."
Pakistan, heavily dependent on billions of dollars in U.S. aid, is under intense pressure to explain how the al Qaeda leader could have spent so many years undetected just a few hours' drive from its intelligence headquarters in the capital.
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Will say anything...Can we say "Al-taqiyya"!
I expect a statue of Osama to be erected on the site. Stalin, Lenin...It's what countries do.
So, the pakis are resorting to the usual defenses the “amish” parents have in the US. Kind of like— he fell in with the wrong crowd, but he was a good kid who was turning his life around.
I was thinking more along the lines that their “skepticism” is based on preknowledge.
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