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Ex-CIA chief: ‘Very difficult to believe that there wasn’t somebody in Pakistan who was aware’ of Osama’s compound

Oct 6, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer 25 Comments

Indeed. This sham alliance is self-defeating for the US and should have been ended long ago.

“US did not share Osama bin Laden’s location with Pakistan due to lack of trust: Ex-CIA chief Panetta,” PTI, October 2, 2020 (thanks to Henry):

…Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist and the then al-Qaeda chief, was killed in a covert raid by a US Navy SEAL team at his Abbottabad compound in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

“When we discovered the location of this compound in Pakistan, it was located in a place called Abbottabad. Abbottabad is a centre for their intelligence services and the Pakistani West Point is located there as well,” Panetta said. The US military academy is located in West Point in New York.

This compound was three times the size of other compounds, it had 18-foot walls on one side and 12-foot walls on the other side with barbed wire around it, said Panetta, who was the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director when the raid was carried out.

“I find it very difficult to believe that there wasn’t somebody in Pakistan who was aware of this compound,” he said.

Once the US found the compound, it had to make a decision whether it would share that information with Pakistan and President Barack Obama made the decision on the basis that when information was shared with Pakistan about the location of terrorists, they were tipped off and suddenly were able to disappear, Panetta said.

“Because of that concern and that lack of trust, very frankly, we decided not to inform the Pakistanis about the location of bin Laden and we did not inform them about the operation that we conducted because we were concerned that if we did that it was likely bin Laden would be advised to move,” he said….

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, Featured, Pakistan, Pakistan's double game, United States Tagged With: Abbottabad, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden


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  1. Mount Zion says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 11:08 am

    Of course the Pakistani new about his whereabouts no doubt about that .

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Oct 6, 2020 at 12:19 pm

      From the top floor of his custom-made safe house in Abbottabad, Bin Laden could have exchanged Morse code messages with the military academy by flashlight.

      The local people were certain that someone important was hiding out in the suburb, because the safe house had very different architecture from homes in the neighborhood.

      The military police of the academy would have known everyone living around the base.

      Reply
      • James Lincoln says

        Oct 6, 2020 at 5:17 pm

        mortimer says,

        “From the top floor of his custom-made safe house in Abbottabad, Bin Laden could have exchanged Morse code messages with the military academy by flashlight.”

        Bin Laden had been known to use, at times, very low-tech means of communication to avoid detection of his whereabouts…

        https://www.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/asia/09/13/hk.binladenlowtech/index.html

        Reply
    • curious george says

      Oct 6, 2020 at 1:59 pm

      There seems to be more questions than answers.

      CIA agents reveal Bill Clinton stopped them killing Osama Bin Laden and ‘preventing 9/11’ by signing a bill making it illegal to take deadly action – even when they had him cornered

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8242365/CIA-missed-opportunity-kill-bin-Laden-Clinton-signed-bill-forbid-intentional-killing.html

      Reply
      • Kepha says

        Oct 7, 2020 at 6:07 am

        Clinton’s signing such a law and Congress passing it prior to such was probably intended to reign in a CIA which had often gone rogue.

        Reply
        • curious george says

          Oct 7, 2020 at 6:32 pm

          More reason for there to be more questions than answers.

  2. RichardL says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 11:32 am

    he was a guest of the ISI. Anybody who believes differently must have a lot of fantasy.

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Oct 6, 2020 at 12:20 pm

      ISI was managing OBL for decades. They built him the safe house next to their head office.

      Reply
      • RichardL says

        Oct 6, 2020 at 6:53 pm

        I knew an ISI colonel from the jihadi wing – he was on a 3 month training course in a western country. They have British style uniforms and act politely and really think you don’t see the sneer, the zebiba, the hatred in their eyes. Sometimes I find arrogant stupidity entertaining but I also understand how some American diplomats are fooled.

        Reply
  3. Naildriver says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 12:06 pm

    It was probably determined that Islam’s progress could be better secured if OBL allowed BHO to find and kill him; as evidence suggests Islam has done swimmingly since Obama’s homily’s to the US population; that Islam is OK.
    It is also noteworthy that OBL was given an honorable burial by Obama too.
    I don’t ascribe to conspiracy theories, but the relationship with our Islamic enemy’s have created the most bizarre machinations of lies and disinformation in history. I would assume; owing to a cognitive dissonance only the greediest, venal, treasonous, and most corrupt could bridge; since, I have been in awe of my country’s politicians’s treason for many years.
    Mecca should have been bombed to the ground decades ago. Islam is the USA’s enemy.

    Reply
    • Clifford Fodor says

      Oct 7, 2020 at 1:04 am

      Be careful. You might be censored for that.

      Reply
      • Blurb1000 says

        Oct 8, 2020 at 6:46 am

        I love every word from Naildriver. Saudi-Barbaria-Arabia and the Shithole Mecca should be bombed back to the time they actually live in.

        Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 7, 2020 at 11:17 pm

      The Ka’aba has been destroyed several times. This has not stopped Islam.

      Reply
      • Naildriver says

        Oct 8, 2020 at 5:03 am

        I have no illusion that taking out a few, or even all Islamic structures would put an end to this scourge upon mankind; as it is in it’s devotees fanatical adherence in collective limbic mass hysteria, where Islam infects, like a disease, mankind’s lowest propensities; and Islam’s methods of infecting the minds of people, such a racist blacks in US prisons, and other malcontented, mostly male populations, who hate the West, that will need to be dealt with with both brute force and intelligent rehabilitation, before any progress to Islam’s eradication can be achieved. It’s a war that is a long way from being won.

        Reply
  4. Kola says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 12:33 pm

    Thanks for sharing.
    Love you God bless you.
    Our Lord reigns.
    Jesus is Lord

    Reply
  5. Bad Penguin says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    Obama called off the mission twice so the military waited until it was to late to call back the helicopters. Obama had to be physically pulled off the golf course be to interupt his golf game.cause he didn’t want

    Reply
  6. Veracious_one says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 3:21 pm

    How many compounds in Abbottabad had 18 foot walls wrapped in barbed wire? The Pakistanis knew who lived there….no doubt about it…

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2020 at 8:19 pm

      Yes, of course. As inept as Muslim nation’s militaries often are, they idea that Pakistan had no idea who was living in an armed compound just steps away from their main military training center is clearly ridiculous.

      Reply
  7. James Lincoln says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    Barack Obama knew enough about islam to know that he could not trust the Pakistanis.

    A horrific US president, but at least I’ll give him that one…

    Reply
    • underbed cat says

      Oct 6, 2020 at 7:51 pm

      I think his connection to Pakistan was curious, but since he knew the Quran, and laws of sharia he would not be able to confirm Osama’s location if he knew it and must have been uncomfortable with the search for an Islamic beleiver terrorist……but he welcomed him home with Islamic prayer, a believer who got lost, but had been taken after his walk off base into the hands of isis. He negociated for his return, however the soldiers who searched for this man were killed, he celebrated his homecoming. A disturbing day for me ….to watch this ceremony. In effect he returned captured Islamic terrorists back to the front or freedom fighters for Islam? And the migtation began to organize.

      Reply
      • underbed cat says

        Oct 8, 2020 at 12:16 am

        I was referring to Obama in this comment.9not Panetta..)…who claimed to be muslim much later, after winning his second term, he publically spoke in other countries ,so even if he found Osama, it would not be comfortable for him as muslims to plan for his capture or death, since muslims cannot betray other muslims or speak about them.

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      • gravenimage says

        Oct 8, 2020 at 12:54 am

        I think the military found bin Laden, and Obama realized that it would be too harmful for him if he just quashed the mission to take him out.

        Reply
  8. gravenimage says

    Oct 6, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    Ex-CIA chief: ‘Very difficult to believe that there wasn’t somebody in Pakistan who was aware’ of Osama’s compound
    ………………………….

    Panetta is of course correct. This would be like having some international criminal in the US “hiding out” a block away from Westpoint…

    Why are we still pretending that Pakistan is an ally?

    Reply
    • Phil Copson says

      Oct 7, 2020 at 3:39 am

      “Panetta is of course correct. This would be like having some international criminal in the US “hiding out” a block away from Westpoint…”
      ——————————————————————————————————————-
      George Soros ?

      Reply
  9. underbed cat says

    Oct 7, 2020 at 1:41 pm

    The beauty of diversity sudden fade, as they say the truth always gets out if you rely on fantasy descriptions and suddenly see the connective tissue of sharia doctrine is silence and denial, if you are in the ummah it’s the path while they walk in to dominate and pretend they are allies.

    Reply

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