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Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows
CBS News ^ | 05/09/2011 | Elizabeth Palmer

Posted on 05/09/2011 4:41:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

CBS News confirms Pakistan has informed the United States that the ISI will allow access to Osama bin Laden's three widows who were left behind in the raid that killed the terrorist near Islamabad. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports it will be "direct access," meaning U.S. agents will be able to interview them, and not just submit questions.

The relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. has seen ups and downs since the CIA-coordinated raid that killed bin Laden near Islamabad.

Despite the back-and-forth relationship in the wake of the bin Laden raid, in his interview with "60 Minutes", President Barack Obama said: "We've been able to kill more terrorists on Pakistani soil than just about any place else. We could not have done that without Pakistani cooperation."

CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports that Pakistan's prime minister said recently that, in the future, any unauthorized raids within Pakistan will be met with "full force." He, of course, didn't find out about the raid that killed bin Laden until it was over, and the American commandos were safely out of the country.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani faced parliament to explain how Pakistan could have missed both bin Laden and the U.S. raid that killed him. Gilani said his government was proud of the armed forces, and that there was an intelligence failure, but no collusion with al Qaeda. He called allegations of complicity or incompetence "absurd. "

Simple denial isn't enough though. Pakistan's political opposition wants to see a thorough investigation of the whole fiasco.

"The most serious fallout, apart from feeling the worst humiliation ever, is of credibility. No one will trust what Pakistan says anymore," said Imran Khan, a Pakistani opposition politician.

The U.S. didn't trust Pakistan last Monday when SEALs raided bin Laden's hideout

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; osamabinladen; widows

1 posted on 05/09/2011 4:42:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Here is wife #1:


2 posted on 05/09/2011 4:45:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: SeekAndFind
Wife No. I - He liked my cooking best.

Wife No. 2 - No, he liked mine best. Yours made his stomach hurt.

Wife No. 3 - What is cooking??

3 posted on 05/09/2011 4:47:27 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought the Seals took a bunch of people in the helicopters? No?


4 posted on 05/09/2011 4:47:44 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: freedumb2003

Maybe she will be one of his tortures, when her contract is up.

LLS


5 posted on 05/09/2011 4:56:04 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: The Bronze Titan
I thought the Seals took a bunch of people in the helicopters? No?

Not the wives, apparently.

You can imagine the Islamofascist "outrage" if the wives had been taken. These cave-dwelling morons would've accused the SEALs of taking their chattel slaves women away to be raped and murdered (psychological projection, of course, since that is exactly what THEY do to Western women).

There were early reports that at least one male had been handcuffed and taken away by helicopter. If true, that may be the only bit of intelligence that hasn't been blown by the blabbing Obama-ites.

6 posted on 05/09/2011 4:57:46 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: SeekAndFind

How much is this costing us?


7 posted on 05/09/2011 5:01:18 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

They must have heard all of the talk about the billions of dollars drying up if they didn’t get with the program.


8 posted on 05/09/2011 5:01:23 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Sacajaweau

He wore the first wife out with 11 kids.......


9 posted on 05/09/2011 5:02:34 PM PDT by Average Al
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To: mass55th

US grants Pakistan access to CHASE MANHATTAN.......


10 posted on 05/09/2011 5:04:51 PM PDT by traumer
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To: freedumb2003
Wife # 2:


11 posted on 05/09/2011 5:06:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Good news! Turns out, Osama used to talk in his sleep. He let all kinds of information of intelligence value out after he passed out for the night.

Bad news! Turns out, we don't have any interpreters that speak goat.

12 posted on 05/09/2011 5:06:41 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate." - Ibn Warraq)
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To: mass55th

Nothing.

It doesn’t cost, it pays.


13 posted on 05/09/2011 5:15:17 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Average Al

keep them away from Bill


14 posted on 05/09/2011 5:19:22 PM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not to worry, no one believes Obama either.


15 posted on 05/09/2011 5:21:42 PM PDT by Carley (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)
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To: The Bronze Titan
I thought the Seals took a bunch of people in the helicopters? No?

They left with one fewer helicopters than they had when they arrived. The math says, no they did not take others away with them when they left...

the infowarrior

16 posted on 05/09/2011 7:04:31 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: JudyinCanada; All

They can replace that and more from China in a blink of an eye! Luckily some among them may not want to cut off from the West and join the ranks of Chinese dominated nations.


17 posted on 05/09/2011 7:36:52 PM PDT by FARS (Be healthy, happy and thrive,)
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To: SeekAndFind
I still want to know just how sick Osama actually was and why they didn't do an autopsy to find out the facts about his health for history if nothing else.
18 posted on 05/09/2011 7:40:29 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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To: Carley

RE: Not to worry, no one believes Obama either.

I notice lot’s of people I know keep saying ‘Osama’ when they really meant ‘Obama’.


19 posted on 05/10/2011 4:30:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even the medis mistakes osama and obama. I channel switch and radio surf too. they’re all doing it


20 posted on 05/10/2011 4:36:19 AM PDT by Carley (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)
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