"I'm shocked, shocked I say, to find that a OBL is hiding less than a kilometer from our military academy and surrounded by by new homes belonging to our senior retired officers."
Posted on 05/02/2011 9:49:39 AM PDT by tobyhill
The discovery of Osama bin Laden's hideout deep inside Pakistan instead of the mountainous border region of Afghanistan complicates the fragile relationship between the United States and one of its key allies in the war against terrorism.
After years of insisting that bin Laden wasn't in its territory, the government of Pakistan today neither lauded nor condemned the killing of bin Laden by U.S. special forces in an attack that unfolded in a mansion less than 1,000 feet from the top Pakistani military academy.
"Osama bin Laden's death illustrates the resolve of the international community, including Pakistan, to fight and eliminate terrorism," the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement. "It constitutes a major setback to terrorist organizations around the world."
But the proximity of bin Laden to the capital of Islamabad casts doubt on the Pakistanis' ability and resolve to root out violent extremists within their own borders.
"All I would say is it's an intelligence failure," former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told ABC News' Diane Sawyer when pressed about why authorities were unable to find bin Laden.
"You're blaming Pakistan. Let me blame the U.S.," Musharaff said. "All along it was intelligence cooperation between Pakistan and the U.S. If this is a Pakistan shortcoming, it is also a failure of the CIA, may I say. ... Any aspersions that they knew or the Pakistani government or the Pakistani military or intelligence knew about him and that he was staying there, this is absolutely wrong."
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"I'm shocked, shocked I say, to find that a OBL is hiding less than a kilometer from our military academy and surrounded by by new homes belonging to our senior retired officers."
Musharraf sounds a little bit like Baghdad Bob.
I’d like to see them react if we froze all their assets in our banks. We gave those Pak bastards BILLIONS in foreign aid just in the last ten years or so.
I always felt like the pockeestanis were keeping OBL safe.
Lay down with Ben Laden dogs and you get up with fleas. We just removed a big one from Musharraf. So what is his bitch?
My guess: An on-scene commander, or at least no one higher than Gen. Mattis, interpreted his orders quite liberally, as happened with the pirate shooting (that was SEALs too) off Somalia. They may have broadcast the live video when they went in, for Panetta to watch, but I doubt that our Dear Leader was permitted to know what they had planned until minutes in advance . . . or perhaps after our people had safely left the country and splashed one load of pigskin-wrapped fish food into the Arabian Sea. After the fact, Obama regretfully took credit for something he would have fatally delayed had he been in the loop soon enough.
So tired of islam and all its BS garbage. Imagine the world without it. Alot more peaceful than it is now. Pakistan is a vipers nest and they need to be called to task.
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