WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'Protected' by Pakistani Security

[tekisui]

Source: The Telegraph

American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why they had failed to find bin Laden was that Pakistan’s security services tipped him off whenever US troops approached.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID) also allegedly smuggled al-Qaeda terrorists through airport security to help them avoid capture and sent a unit into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.

The claims, made in leaked US government files obtained by Wikileaks, will add to questions over Pakistan’s capacity to fight al-Qaeda.

Last year, David Cameron caused a diplomatic furore when he told Pakistan that it could not “look both ways” on terrorism. The Pakistani government issued a strongly-worded rebuttal.

more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8488236/WikiLeaks-Osama-bin-Laden-protected-by-Pakistani-security.html

[closeupready]

1. Disappointing.

K&R

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Well duh, anybody who's ever read Tariq Ali or any other halfway decent journalist on Pakistan would

know this. Ali Asif Zardari is a tool and a corrupt buffoon who's probably kept in the dark half the time by the military and the ISI. (BTW duh was not meant for the OP).

[sasha031]

3. well there it is...

[Spinny Liberal]

4. That's the way it goes

with frienemies.

[Faygo Kid]

5. Pretty obvious now that Pakistan was protecting him.

Not sure what we can do about it, but I really don't want my tax dollars sent over there to prop up a regime that protected Bin Laden.

[tekisui]

7. We just agreed to give them $3 billion worth of surveillance drones.

It boggles the mind.

[patrice]

6. The weird-ass ripples that were triggered the minute Dick Cheney stepped-over the line into

custom-made "intelligence" . . . . ?

Well, we may never know all of the different triangulations that resulted from that rogue cue-ball compared to whatever actual intelligence professionals were doing.

[patrice]

8. Though I suppose precedent had been established by GHWB. Maybe our problem is

that we just have a schizoid/psychotic "intelligence" apparatus in this country.