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Pakistan’s Perfidy

From the The Hindu: Now with the Pakistani authorities not taking ownership of Osama’s killing, the U.S. penetration of the country’s airspace for this operation has raised uncomfortable questions with some analysts even suggesting that the Pakistani radars had been jammed by the Americans. Of course they were. The outrage is that it was so plainly […]

From the The Hindu:

Now with the Pakistani authorities not taking ownership of Osama’s killing, the U.S. penetration of the country’s airspace for this operation has raised uncomfortable questions with some analysts even suggesting that the Pakistani radars had been jammed by the Americans.

Of course they were. The outrage is that it was so plainly necessary. At the very least a faction high within Pakistan’s powerful military has been sheltering bin Laden while insisting he was not in the country or dead, and collecting billions in military aid to, among other things, find bin Laden. Steve Sailer is right: we been had. I’m afraid he’ll be right about something else: the whole thing will be officially un-remembered to avoid a confrontation with nuclear-armed Pakistan and to keep the GWOT status quo in place. We can’t even count on the cessation of military aid.

It’s hard to imagine how General Kayani himself could have not known about the fortress built in his backyard. Foreign Policy:

Since Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) falls under the authority of the country’s military leaders, top army official Ashfaq Parvez Kayani presumably would have known as much about bin Laden’s whereabouts as anyone in the Pakistani government. But if he did have an inkling as to where the terrorist leader was hiding, he wasn’t telling anyone in the U.S. government, preferring instead to talk loosely about the army’s “successes” against al Qaeda. Adding to the embarrassment, the New York Times reports that just last month, Kayani had visited a military academy in Abbottabad, the town in which bin Laden was found and killed on May 1. There, Kayani “proclaimed that Pakistan had ‘cracked’ the forces of terrorism, an assessment that was greeted with skepticism in Washington.”

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