ISI was aware of Osama's safe house

[Toramana]

"An intelligence report seen by the Mirror also contradicts claims that Pakistani intelligence did not know about bin Laden’s presence. It says: “Contrary to statements released by Pakistani intelligence agencies denying any knowledge of the occupants of the Abbottabad compound raided by American Special Forces units on May 1, there is evidence the occupants of the compound housing Osama bin Laden were well known to Pakistani intelligence from the time the purpose-built building was being constructed.” Sources also claimed al-Qaeda had been split into two – the largest faction run by bin Laden’s No2, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri."


Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-sto...#ixzz1LdRZF8LL
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[Toramana]

"The officials provided new details of a tense discussion between Pakistani officials and an American envoy who traveled to Pakistan on Monday, as well as the growing suspicion among United States intelligence and diplomatic officials that someone in Pakistan’s secret intelligence agency knew of Bin Laden’s location, and helped shield him.

Obama administration officials have stopped short of accusing the Pakistani government — either privately or publicly — of complicity in the hiding of Bin Laden in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. One senior administration official privately acknowledged that the administration sees its relationship with Pakistan as too crucial to risk a wholesale break, even if it turned out that past or present Pakistani intelligence officials did know about Bin Laden’s whereabouts."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/wo...licy.html?_r=1

[faye]

one report i heard said that the isi had told the us about that house 2 years ago.

[faye]

yeah, it's all pretty funky i reckon.

[Toramana]

WASHINGTON: Sen. Carl Levin said 'high levels' of the Pakistani government knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding, must know where Mullah Omar is too.

The Senate Armed Services Committee, Levin said, has already started a preliminary investigation into Pakistan's involvement and, depending on the results of that investigation, will decide whether to hold public hearings to investigate further.

"We need these questions answered about whether or not the top level of the Pakistan government knew or was told by the ISI, their intelligence service, about anything, about this suspicious activity for five years in a very, very centralized place," Levin said.

Beyond his suspicions about Pakistan's role in harboring bin Laden, Levin said he has "no doubt" that the highest levels of the Pakistani government are protecting other terrorist targets -- such as Taliban leader Mullah Omar and the leaders of the Haqqani terror network -- who have been responsible for the deaths of American troops in Afghanistan.

"These people are killing us. Killing our Afghan allies. Killing our coalition partners by crossing the border," Levin said. "They're being given a safe haven in Pakistan. So the government of Pakistan is going to continue to say they didn't know bin Laden was there. It's kind of hard to believe that higher-level people didn't know, but they'll continue to say that. But what they won't say is that they don't know where the Haqqani terrorists are because they do know, and they've told us they know."

http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=15165

[ScimitarXEdge]

I pray InshaAllah they get Haqqani and Mullah Omar

but I hope also that it's not some quick neat and clean hit; it should be a messy bloody battle where scores of American Military personell lose their lives in the process a painful pyrrhic victory.

[Toramana]

Washington - The wealth of information pulled from Osama bin Laden's compound has reinforced the belief that he played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior US officials say.

And the data further demonstrates to the US that top al-Qaeda commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan, not just in the rugged border areas, and are being supported and given sanctuary by Pakistanis, a senior defence official said

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Bin...da-US-20110507

[faye]

one way or the other, i believe this whole thing is a set up and pakistan has been 'suckerpunched'.

[MDresden]

one way or the other, i believe this whole thing is a set up and pakistan has been 'suckerpunched'.

I believe the same...but not sure exactly on it.

[Toramana]

There’s understandably been much interest in the house in which Osama Bin Laden whiled away his hours while hiding in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. Photographs have been taken of the three-storey buildings, graphics have been produced to show the outline and design of the eight-bedroom property. But for those who have an interest in architecture and that sort of thing, here are the original plans, as produced by an Abbottabad architect.

A file held by the local authorities in the town shows that plans for the “pucca” (or proper) house were filed in the summer of 2004 by the man known as Arshad Khan, who is thought to have been Bin Laden’s courier. His ID card, Number CH 9613-753-20, believed to be fake, gives a date of birth as 09/06/1977. It is though the house was completed by September 2005, raising doubts about some reports claiming the property was raided by the Pakistanis in 2003. The file also shows that the occupants never paid any property tax, and that the completed building breached several guidelines. The file says the house had a “flush system” and a drainage tank. The official address on file is: House No 3, Street No 8-A, Garga Road, Thanda Chowa, Hashmi Colony, Abbottabad.

The architects for the plans were Modern Associates. One of the owners, Junaid Younis, said his father, Mohammad, had done the drawing, liaising with Arshad Khan through a property agent. “Lots of people come to us. We are more interested in making money rather than the individual,” Mr Younis told me.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/...s-pucca-house/

[faye]

quick toramana, get your relies down there to sell 'osama burgers' (made from goat)and cokes. they'll make a killing. no pun intended.
osama t-shirts, t-towels, the works.