How hypocritical are the Americans? Now they say we helped them?

[RayKalm]

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Washington: The Pakistani intelligence services provided the United States with information that was helpful in learning more about the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, a US official said.

"The Pakistanis didn't provide any tips on bin Laden, but they provided certain information that aided the United States in developing the American intelligence picture on the compound," said the official, who asked not to be identified. "This was an American operation," the official added.

The official's comment came in response to a Washington Post report that said Pakistan's intelligence service believes it deserves credit for helping US intelligence agencies to locate bin Laden's hideout.

"The lead and the information actually came from us," an unnamed senior official with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) told.

The Al-Qaeda founder and 9/11 mastermind was killed on May 2 last year in a secret US Navy SEAL operation in a walled-off compound in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital.

Washington and Islamabad are now working to repair their relationship, which was badly damaged by the revelation that the world's most wanted man was living a stone's throw from Pakistan's elite military academy.

The other official, who said he had been intimately involved in the hunt for senior al-Qaeda operatives, including bin Laden, said the ISI provided the CIA with a cell phone number that eventually led to an al-Qaeda courier using the nom de guerre of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.

The officials said that in November 2010, they turned over the number to the CIA, along with information that it had last been detected in Abbottabad.

The ISI said it did not know then that the number was Kuwaiti's, but that CIA analysts did, without however relaying that information back to the Pakistanis.

"It is the story of an extreme trust deficit and betrayal," complained the other ISI official.
However a US official disputed the ISI version.

City Journal

[King Solomon]

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City Journal

This particular news was reproduced when osama was killed but it failed to receive media attention (due to bias against pakistan's military and intelligence appratus)