Pakistan Says Sorry

Pakistan says its senior political and military leaders are to blame for not detecting Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country and then failing to respond when U.S. forces moved into Pakistani airspace to kill him in 2011, according to a government report that became public Monday.

The report, issued by a high-level commission that spent nearly two years studying the al-Qaeda leader’s capture, offers an unusually candid assessment of the failings of Pakistan’s intelligence services and military. It provides new insight into how bin Laden, the world’s most hunted man at the time, was able to move around and live in Pakistan after the U.S. military flushed him out of neighboring Afghanistan in 2002.

Based on those interviews, the report establishes a timeline that first places bin Laden in Pakistan in early 2002 after he evaded U.S. capture during the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Although gaps remain in placing his whereabouts during that time, the report suggests that bin Laden traveled throughout northwestern Pakistan for several years, settling at different times in Peshawar and Swat, a militant stronghold. Bin Laden then lived for two years in a big house with two hallways, three bedrooms” in Haripur, less than 50 miles from Islamabad, the Pakistani capital

In 2005, bin Laden moved his extended family to Abbottabad, where he probably remained until the Navy SEALs landed two helicopters, blasted through a door and killed him in 2011, according to the report. Local officials said they were surprised that he was in Abbottabad, and the report notes that bin Laden was isolated and that his children rarely went outside.

But local officials missed several signs that could have signaled to the country’s usually diligent intelligence services that they needed to take a closer look.

But the report concludes that bin Laden was a never a high-value target for Pakistan’s intelligence services, even though they were aware of CIA efforts to capture him, the report states. Pakistan’s main Inter-Services Intelligence agency felt ill-equipped to mount an exhaustive search, and there was little cooperation between the agency and the CIA, the report concluded.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Pakistan says its senior political and military leaders are to blame for not detecting Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country and then failing to respond when U.S. forces moved into Pakistani airspace to kill him in 2011, according to a government report that became public Monday.

The report, issued by a high-level commission that spent nearly two years studying the al-Qaeda leader’s capture, offers an unusually candid assessment of the failings of Pakistan’s intelligence services and military. It provides new insight into how bin Laden, the world’s most hunted man at the time, was able to move around and live in Pakistan after the U.S. military flushed him out of neighboring Afghanistan in 2002.

Based on those interviews, the report establishes a timeline that first places bin Laden in Pakistan in early 2002 after he evaded U.S. capture during the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Although gaps remain in placing his whereabouts during that time, the report suggests that bin Laden traveled throughout northwestern Pakistan for several years, settling at different times in Peshawar and Swat, a militant stronghold. Bin Laden then lived for two years in a big house with two hallways, three bedrooms” in Haripur, less than 50 miles from Islamabad, the Pakistani capital

In 2005, bin Laden moved his extended family to Abbottabad, where he probably remained until the Navy SEALs landed two helicopters, blasted through a door and killed him in 2011, according to the report. Local officials said they were surprised that he was in Abbottabad, and the report notes that bin Laden was isolated and that his children rarely went outside.

But local officials missed several signs that could have signaled to the country’s usually diligent intelligence services that they needed to take a closer look.

But the report concludes that bin Laden was a never a high-value target for Pakistan’s intelligence services, even though they were aware of CIA efforts to capture him, the report states. Pakistan’s main Inter-Services Intelligence agency felt ill-equipped to mount an exhaustive search, and there was little cooperation between the agency and the CIA, the report concluded.

Pakistan faults self in bin Laden hunt

-> Bin Laden was never a high-value target for Pakistan,  right, why kill the golden goose

Kris wrote:
>>>I think this is a ploy to distance Pakistan from the al queda thugs and create the sense this was just an intelligence failure. The truth unfortunately is out about the ISI dissemblers playing both sides against the middle.