The New York Times News Alert: Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants Who Aided Bin Laden Raid (611 hits)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.
Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the weeks before the raid, is the latest evidence of the fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan. It comes at a time when the Obama administration is seeking Pakistan’s support in brokering an endgame in the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
The fate of the C.I.A. informants arrested in Pakistan is unclear, but American officials said that the C.I.A. director, Leon E. Panetta, raised the issue when he travelled to Islamabad last week to meet with Pakistani military and intelligence officers.
Pakistan’s Chief Of Army Is Fighting to Keep His Job in Wake of Bin Laden Raid
Pakistan’s army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and junior officers since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to Pakistani officials and people who have met the chief in recent weeks. Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who has led the army since 2007, faces such intense discontent over what is seen as his cozy relationship with the United States that a colonels’ coup, while unlikely, was not out of the question, said a well-informed Pakistani who has seen the general in recent weeks, as well as an American military official involved with Pakistan for many years. The Pakistani Army is essentially run by consensus among 11 top commanders, known as the Corps Commanders, and almost all of them, if not all, were demanding that General Kayani get much tougher with the Americans, even edging toward a break, Pakistanis who follow the army closely said.
@ Sister Irma, [to understand about the culture of this nation (Pakistan) is to protect invited guest therefore it would take more than one american fighting batallions to go in and get one of this nation's invited guest!!!!... ]
Are you kidding me? Osama was an invited guest to Pakistan after killing even some of their own citizens in the WTC? Honestly, I have nothing more to say.
Jen, because I believe it to be the absolute truth taht "We see the world thourgh the eyes of our cultrure", this blog reminds me of something I posted a while back about what I learned about Pakistan watching a panel of CIA agents on C-Span...
ONe CIA agent said about bin Laden being in Palisan when we first began bombing this country from afganistan tried to get America(ns) to understand about the culture of this nation is to protect invited guest therefore it would take more than one american fighting batallions to go in and get one of this nation's invited guest!!!!...
I thought of this when our president said he refused to let the government of Pakistan know they were coming...but we as our country still have no understanding on teh Japanese- Americans did not fight against our ( as in their) government sending them to those camps during WWII when they sent not on German to these kinds of camps...
how we will never not call a nations government as having the right to take care of the interest of its peoples over the rulings of America's government / public opinions's judge and jury. lol (smile)
IT IS CALLED SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF ONE'S CULTURE. LOL (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
