Pakistan says Osama family members under arrest, and defends earlier inaction on Al-Qaeda

[The Straight Story]

Pakistan says Osama family members under arrest, and defends earlier inaction on Al-Qaeda

Pakistan authorities said on Tuesday that they have arrested members of Osama Bin Laden’s family. They were taken into custody at Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, which US Special Forces raided on Sunday, killing the Al-Qaeda leader.

Sources told Al Arabiya that some of those arrested had been wounded. The US Navy SEALs who killed Bin Laden spirited away his body, and gave the terrorist a sea burial in the North Arabian Sea on Sunday, observing Muslim last rites.

Earlier on Tuesday, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan defended his country against accusations it did not do enough to track down Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and acknowledged that his security forces were left out of the US operation to kill him.

“Although the events of Sunday were not a joint operation, a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama Bin Laden as a continuing threat to the civilized world,” Mr. Zardari said in an op-ed article for The Washington Post.

Underneath a headline reading “Pakistan did its part,” he said: “We in Pakistan take some satisfaction that our early assistance in identifying an Al-Qaeda courier ultimately led to this day.”

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/03/147626.html

[Dennis Donovan]

1. "under house arrest" = being spirited to another safe house...

[aquart]

2. Uh huh. They probably shouldn't talk while I'm struggling to overcome

My impulse to feed them to India as an appetizer.