Musharraf: Bin Laden hideout not Pakistan ISI's fault

[steve2470]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/03/eveningnews/main20059472.shtml

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Amid a growing controversy about how much Pakistani authorities knew about bin Laden, and when they knew it, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan spoke to Musharraf in Dubai, where he now lives. For his part, Musharrak insists that nobody knew.

Musharraf: "I do agree that (the news about bin Laden in Pakistan) is surprising and a lot of people in Pakistan are not believing that. This is unfortunate. It needs to be investigated. Who slipped up? Why this negligence?"

Logan: "You are really asking people to believe that this all happened without the knowledge of the intelligence services and the military and that it came as a complete surprise?"

Musharraf: "Yes, yes, I am saying that and I mean every word of it."

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[fujiyama]

1. Connving, opportunistic, shithead.

[buddysmellgood]

2. I remember another country where foreigners moved in, learned to fly planes, and

then crashed them into things in various cities, all without the knowledge of the government.

[scarletwoman]

5. Indeed. I remember that, too. (nt)

[sharesunited]

6. Were they internationally wanted men at the time?

[Vehl]

7. +1

and nor did they live within stone's throw of West Point, amidst high ranking generals...in a house purpose built with high walls...for years.

[buddysmellgood]

8. I doubt that would have made a difference. I think the question

is whether Pakistan is more or less inept than the Bush administration. It may very well be that they were protecting him, I'm just sayin' we're hardly in a position to point fingers.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Of COURSE it's not their fault, Pervez. Of COURSE!

:eyes:

PB

[IDemo]

4. "Yeah, that's the ticket..."

[steve2470]

9. Pakistan Says ‘Whole World’ Shared Failures of Intelligence on Bin Laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/world/asia/05react.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

PARIS — As Pakistan faced a growing chorus of questions about its avowed ignorance of Osama bin Laden’s presence on its soil, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani sought to shift the focus of blame on Wednesday, saying the intelligence failure was made by “the whole world, not Pakistan alone.”

The maneuvering came three days after President Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed in an American commando raid on a compound in Abbottabad, just 35 miles from the Pakistani capital — an event that prompted Western leaders, including senior officials in France and Britain, to say Pakistan had to explain why it said it had not been aware of the presence of the leader of Al Qaeda.

Shortly before he met with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday during a long-scheduled visit here, Mr. Gilani was asked the same question by reporters and said, “There is an intelligence failure of the whole world, not just Pakistan alone.”

He said Pakistan shared intelligence “with the rest of the world, including the United States,” so if there were what he called lapses in Pakistan “that means lapses from the whole world.”

[bullwinkle428]

10. The old "spread the blame" defense - truly the battle cry of

utter and flailing desperation!

[crickets]

11. Yep.

It's kinda embarrassing to be running Pakistan at the moment.