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Gates: Somebody in Pakistan knew about bin Laden

World May. 19, 2011 - 06:00AM JST ( 11 )

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TriumvereMay. 19, 2011 - 09:15AM JST

You don't say! Well, I never!
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USNinJapan2May. 19, 2011 - 10:59AM JST

It was Babu Bhatt, the Pakistani restauranteur from Seinfeld. He must not have known that OBL was a, "very, very, bad man."
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chuckbelloMay. 19, 2011 - 11:20AM JST

Leon Panetta said it right: it's either inconceivable that some members of the Pakistan intelligence didn't know that OBL was hiding there or they are incompetent. I tend to agree with the former. The top brass of the ISI may not have direct info about him but I bet my 2cents that a senior or a mid level officer had some info about who was in the house.
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johninnahaMay. 19, 2011 - 11:41AM JST

Invasion: an instance of entering a country or region with an armed force

Assassination: murder (an important person) in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.

It doesn't matter whether Bin Laden was guilty or innocent. We never got the chance to find out.

Personally, I strongly doubt that it was him. The photographs look different and Bin Laden was on a dialysis machine for kidney failure in 2001. It's very unlikely that he survived.

We shall never know.

All the evidence was destroyed.
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MrDogMay. 19, 2011 - 04:30PM JST

"We have no evidence yet with respect to anybody else. My supposition is, somebody knew."

Did he wag his finger as he said that?

Of course somebody knew! So what?! You bust in there and killed someone without getting any approval. You guys aren't angels either.
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USNinJapan2May. 19, 2011 - 04:37PM JST

johninnaha

Personally, I strongly doubt that it was him.

Then you have POTUS to thank for unnecessarily risking the lives of the dozens who executed the mission, for unnecessarily triggering a goe-political fallout with Pakistan, and for needlessly handing our friends the Chinese a much coveted sample of our "stealth" MH-60 helo.
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nandakandamandaMay. 19, 2011 - 04:46PM JST

johninnaha, "Personally, I strongly doubt that it was him. The photographs look different..."

Who are you to doubt the Taliban when they acknowledged he was killed and vowed revenge?

PS Those photos that you saw were the faked ones. The real ones have not yet been released.
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Lieberman2012May. 19, 2011 - 04:50PM JST

You just have to laugh at some of the people so upset Bin Laden is now fish food that they resort to conspiracies to help with the loss they feel.
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just-a-guyMay. 19, 2011 - 07:52PM JST

What if America has never sponsering the covert war against the soviet occupation of afghanistan1980s, sure there wont be any conflict with pakistan this rogue nation just know sucking money!Let the Soviets rampage that countryand see how they got their pay cheque from Russians! How stupid was Carter,Brezenski/Regan's war aginst communisims! Sometimes, the enemy's enemies were not your friends, they are even more deadly foes,grow a wisdom you yankees!
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CapnSinbadMay. 19, 2011 - 11:08PM JST

Say, isn't that OBL sticking his head out of that minaret over there ? Never heard of him, OBL who?
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USNinJapan2May. 20, 2011 - 08:59AM JST

just-a-guy

What if America has never sponsering the covert war against the soviet occupation of afghanistan1980s,

The US support of the Mujahedin was far from covert, not was it covert warfare (i.e. intelligence). May be you weren't aware of it (if you were even around back then) but it was a pretty public part of the Cold War and Soviets along with the rest of the world was well aware of it. It was indirect warfare, not covert warfare.