Inquiry into why Pakistan intelligence couldn’t track Osama
May 3rd, 2011 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANSWashington, May 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani has promised a “full inquiry” to find out why Pakistani intelligence services were not able to track Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden was killed early Monday by US commandos in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city.
Haqqani told CNN: “We will do a full inquiry into finding out why our intelligence services were not able to track him (Osama) earlier.”
He said Islamabad didn’t have knowledge of Osama’s whereabouts at any point over the last several years.
“Pakistan is a nation of 180 million. There are people in Pakistan, unfortunately, who have sympathies with Osama bin Laden and obviously some of them had protected him while he was there,” he was quoted as saying.
“If we had really known where bin Laden was, we would have got him.”
He went on to say that the US had superior intelligence and superior technology, and “we are grateful to them and to God for having given us this opportunity to bring this chapter to an end”.
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