https://freerepublic.com/tag/oblpakistan/ en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:43:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3349025/posts A former Pakistani defense minister appeared to confirm on Indian television on Tuesday that both his country's senior military and civilian leadership knew of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's presence in their country at the time of his death in 2011. Bin Laden was killed after his compound in the environs of Islamabad was raided by U.S. Navy SEALs. [....] [T]his week, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Pakistan's defense minister between 2008 and 2012, told Indian TV station CNN-IBN that they knew that bin Laden was in Pakistan. Here's an excerpt of CNN-IBN's journalist posing questions to Mukhtar: Question: Did this word... WaPo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3349025/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:43:28 GMT