{"id":8178,"date":"2015-02-12T03:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8178"},"modified":"2015-02-12T03:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:01:55","slug":"news-flash-pakistanis-knew-bin-laden-was-among-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8178","title":{"rendered":"News flash: Pakistanis knew bin Laden was among 'em?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This must rank as perhaps the least-surprising item to come out of the Global War on Terror.<\/p>\n

Pakistan’s intelligence apparatus likely knew Osama bin Laden was hiding in that country when he was killed in May 2011 by Navy SEALs and CIA spooks.<\/p>\n

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What’s more, they well could have know precisely where the world’s most wanted terrorist was hiding when the U.S. strike force landed in the middle of a moonless night in Abbottabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The possible revelation comes from former Pakistani Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani, who once led ISI, Pakistan’s major intelligence agency.<\/p>\n

The fact that bin Laden was holed up in a large compound so close to a military academy in the city just north of Islamabad has brought suspicion on Pakistan almost from the moment he was shot to death and carried out of Pakistan aboard a Special Forces helicopter.<\/p>\n

Many skeptics in this country have wondered how bin Laden could have hidden in plain sight for as long as he did, how he was able to escape detection for a decade after the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

As MSN.com reported: “Asked whether it was possible for bin Laden to have lived in the town without the powerful ISI’s knowledge, Durrani said: ‘My assessment… was it is quite possible that they (the ISI) did not know, but it was more probable that they did.'”<\/p>\n

ISI is known to be a crack intelligence outfit, with some seriously sophisticated sleuthing skills. Yet, bin Laden was going about his business inside that compound without anyone inside Pakistan ever knowing about it?<\/p>\n

Yes, it stretches credulity — and it provides some more tough questions for American intelligence officials to ask of their so-called “allies” in this war on terror.<\/p>\n

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