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Pakistan arrests CIA's bin Laden informants: report
Yahoo/Reuters ^

Posted on 06/15/2011 5:51:46 AM PDT by nuconvert

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested five CIA informants who fed information to U.S. intelligence before the raid last month which killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

One of the detainees was reported to be a Pakistani Army major whom officials said copied license plates of cars visiting the al Qaeda leader's compound 30 miles northwest of Islamabad.

The fate of the CIA informants arrested in Pakistan was unclear, the newspaper reported, citing American officials.

Outgoing CIA Director Leon Panetta raised the issue of the informants' detention during a trip to Islamabad last week where he met Pakistani military and intelligence officers, the newspaper said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; cia; ciainformants; pakistan; pakitrash

1 posted on 06/15/2011 5:51:53 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Message to Congress:

Dear Mr. Speaker,

Cut off all aid to Pakistan now!

Sincerely,


2 posted on 06/15/2011 5:54:26 AM PDT by Big_Harry ( Starve the Beast!)
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To: nuconvert

Their way of saying thanks?


3 posted on 06/15/2011 5:54:43 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker
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To: nuconvert

There ought to be another raid to free these guys.


4 posted on 06/15/2011 5:55:50 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: nuconvert

And how do they know who the informants are?? Oh yeah BO told em.


5 posted on 06/15/2011 5:57:35 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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“Last week, at a closed Senate Intelligence Committee briefing, Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell rated Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism operations a “three” on a scale of 1 to 10, the Times reported, citing officials familiar with the exchange.”


6 posted on 06/15/2011 5:57:43 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Double spies....Sometimes we’re just plain stupid.


7 posted on 06/15/2011 6:07:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: nuconvert

Why didn’t the U.S. Government get them out of the country after the mission was completed?


8 posted on 06/15/2011 6:11:38 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: no dems

´Cause barry ran it.


9 posted on 06/15/2011 6:12:57 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: no dems

That’s my question too.


10 posted on 06/15/2011 6:34:48 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Sacajaweau

not getting your comment


11 posted on 06/15/2011 6:36:04 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Osama was a money-maker for Pakistan.

The USofA should stop trying to bribe other nations with our tax dollars to ‘like’ us ... all we get for our money is contempt for our generosity.


12 posted on 06/15/2011 6:54:13 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (I am a US Citizen, A Patriot, A TEA Partier, An Oath Keeper, A Voter, An Auburn Fan!)
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To: nuconvert

Thoughts I have about this.

1) Pakistan says they did NOT know O.B.L. was in the compound.

2) They were recording licenses of cars visiting the compound.

3) HUH?? Why record licenses if they weren’t aware of the occupants?


13 posted on 06/15/2011 6:54:18 AM PDT by jdietz (God is great, beer is good and people are crazy, (which is why guns are necessary))
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To: nuconvert

... and what will Obama do about it? It will probably cause him a bogey on the back nine. Such pressure!


14 posted on 06/15/2011 7:22:46 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (You are just jealous because the voices aren't talking to YOU!)
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To: nuconvert
Pakistan still getting its U.S. war gear

The U.S. government might be concerned about the leaking of secret operational data in Pakistan. And the U.S. government might not be too pleased that Pakistan has reportedly arrested informants who aided the CIA before the raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound.

But there’s little doubt that, despite those differences, the U.S. military still supplies the Pakistani military with new, sophisticated intelligence collection and communications equipment.

The Army Communications and Electronics Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground recently put out a notice signaling that it may need contractors to train members of the Pakistani military on how to use a new “Ground Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (GISR) system.”

15 posted on 06/15/2011 9:30:54 AM PDT by milestogo
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To: milestogo

If we speculate that the bush administration knew where osama was, but at the same time did not want to lose these information sources. Then Obama took the low hanging fruit and as a result, these informants will probably be killed. And we will no longer have these back channel assets. The conflict that will result here is going to be a blood bath.


16 posted on 06/15/2011 9:56:03 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: milestogo

How long until Pakistan gets its replacement P-3s they lost when the Taliban overran their Naval base.


17 posted on 06/15/2011 1:15:59 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: driftdiver
We SHARE intelligence and told them.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

18 posted on 06/15/2011 8:06:06 PM PDT by expatguy (Donations make Expat Better!)
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