Pakistani town SHOCKED by bin Laden find

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-02-osama-pakistan_n.htm

Pakistani town shocked by bin Laden find
By Aisha Chowdhry, William M. Welch and Oren Dorell, USA TODAY

After almost a decade of pursuit, the world's greatest manhunt ended with Osama bin Laden cornered not in a cave but in a mansion on the edges of a leafy city near Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. He was hiding, in a sense, in plain sight. "It is a big surprise for me that bin Laden was actually there," said Sadik Aale Mohammad, who lives a mile from bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, a middle-class Pakistani city an hour's drive north of Islamabad. "We are in disbelief that this happened in Pakistan and Abbottabad, which is such a peaceful place," he said.

Situated in the Orash Valley, Abbottabad is circled by forested hills cut by the Karakoram Highway, once part of the fabled Silk Road. Tourists come here in the summers for its pleasant weather. Abbottabad is also home to a large military base, and a prominent Pakistani Army academy. Soldiers are everywhere. That U.S. intelligence agents and special operations forces tracked bin Laden there, and that he appeared to have been with family and aides for considerable time, has raised questions about the role and veracity of Pakistan's government, a nuclear power and nominal ally of the United States in its war against Taliban in Afghanistan.

It casts doubt on the degree to which Pakistan was complicit in hiding and protecting bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the terrorist attacks on the United States that killed thousands of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001. Some experts say the find potentially shakes the future of U.S.-Pakistani relations by suggesting terrorists are operating more freely here than previously assumed. "The question of where Pakistan stands in this whole effort has come to the fore," said Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former State Department official...

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, interviewed in Dubai by Bloomberg TV, insisted Pakistan had cooperated fully with the U.S. government and said that he had never known bin Laden's location. "No, never," Musharraf said. "That really surprises me." The implications for Pakistan were immediately clear to its own citizens. "What was he doing in Pakistan?" asked Umair Ejaz, a businessman in Lahore, which has been the scene of Islamist violence. He said his country's image has been damaged because it "implies Pakistan had given him free accommodation." "The blowback from this is going to be huge," Ejaz said...

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1. Somebody should confirm who actually owned the house & property...

its been reported it was a PAK Intelligence safe house....if so then the government is complicit.

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2. The ISI (Pakistani Intelligence) was the primary sponsor of the Taliban.

Osama got most of his financial support from the Saudi's, but most material support was from the Taliban. I would bet the farm the ISI fed Osama, and the Taliban intel to the very end..