Pak military says it was not forewarned about US strike on Bin Laden
May 3rd, 2011 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 3 (ANI): Pakistan’s military has said it hadn’t been forewarned about the U.S. strike on a compound in Abbottabad that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden was slain inside a sprawling compound in the heavily guarded town of Abbottabad, which is located 40 miles north of Islamabad. Abbotabad is home to Pakistan’s military academy and has as its residents active as well as retired Pakistani military personnel.
Pakistani officials initially claimed it was a joint raid, but after President Barack Obama stressed that it was solely an American operation, they went back on their previous statement, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“It should tell you a lot that we didn’t trust them to help us” take out bin Laden. You think about where he was living, and we didn’t want their help,” the WSJ quoted a senior American official, as saying.
In the wake of Osama’s death, and the way his elimination was effected, the US-Pakistan alliance could come unstuck, feel experts and analysts.
Pakistani officials are adamant that they weren’t hiding Bin Laden, and they acknowledge being embarrassed by the raid.
The future of their relationship with the U.S. now hinges on whether they have been sufficiently embarrassed to more aggressively pursue militants who use Pakistani territory as a haven for attacks at home, on U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Afghanistan and on civilian targets in the West. (ANI)
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