Pakistan 'arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid'

[Gerald]

Pakistan has arrested five alleged informants for the CIA who helped in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in northern Pakistan in May, US media report.

Among those held by the intelligence agency, the ISI, was the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to watch Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, the New York Times reported.

The raid strained US-Pakistan ties.

US President Barack Obama said "someone" was protecting Bin Laden.

Pakistan has denied knowing Bin Laden's whereabouts and denied the New York Times report, in particular its claim that an army major was among those arrested.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on a recent visit to Pakistan that there was "absolutely no evidence that anyone at the highest level of the Pakistani government" knew where Bin Laden was.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13773541

Note: 15 June 2011 Last updated at 10:38 GMT

[Gerald]

[Skybird]

Not finding Bin Laden, but persecuting those who helped to get him? What else does it take to show whose side Pakistan is on?

This act is almost a war declaration.

What a worthless rathole of a failed country, and its getting worse and worse and worse. When they test-exploded their first nuclear device so many years ago, all alarm-bells should have rang amok in the est, and one should have bombed and shreddered the place to pieces the size of matchsticks before they had time to assemble the next one.

Now they are said to have 50 or 60, iirc. Great.

[BossMark]

The least said the better on this topic, but it doesn't surprise me at all

[Skybird]

Pakistani Intelligence Announces Its Full Cooperation With U.S. Forces During Upcoming Top Secret June 12 Drone Strike On Al-Qaeda At 5:23 A.M. Near Small Town Of Razmani In North Waziristan

Priceless.

And so true.

[Gerald]

I would not go so far as to say that it is "Top Secret"

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Not finding Bin Laden, but persecuting those who helped to get him? What else does it take to show whose side Pakistan is on?

This act is almost a war declaration.

What a worthless rathole of a failed country, and its getting worse and worse and worse. When they test-exploded their first nuclear device so many years ago, all alarm-bells should have rang amok in the est, and one should have bombed and shreddered the place to pieces the size of matchsticks before they had time to assemble the next one.

Now they are said to have 50 or 60, iirc. Great.

Being informant is same as spying for foreign power in this case to the USA. Its and stays as treason no matter what information was delivered and what was done with it.

[Gerald]

The last word is not said yet........

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

Being informant is same as spying for foreign power in this case to the USA. Its and stays as treason no matter what information was delivered and what was done with it.

Who cares in this case? That Pakistan since years harbours terrorists, and that its military and intel community to wide degree are involved with it and support it and sympathise with it and conduct terrorist strikes against Indian civilian population via proxies and with freindly support from the ISI and Pak military, is what makes Pakistan a terrorist itself.

A terrporist with nuclear weapons and a history of proliferating nuclear technology and knowledge. In effect, Pakistan already IS at war with the West. Since many years.

[Jimbuna]

I wouldn't go so far as to say they are at war Sky but they aren't a long way off.

Thing is they've got no oil plus they have some nukes.

A bit like Iran I suppose...the west lost the opportunity to act when perhaps it could be argued that they should have.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Skybird

A terrporist with nuclear weapons and a history of proliferating nuclear technology and knowledge. In effect, Pakistan already IS at war with the West. Since many years.

This may all be true, but nevertheless it is hard to find fault with them for arresting those CIA agents. They ARE CIA agents working in Pakistan.

Or what do you think Pakistan should have done, turn a blind eye?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Not finding Bin Laden, but persecuting those who helped to get him? What else does it take to show whose side Pakistan is on?

The US and the UK (if we've got the balls) should immediately pull the plug on all financial aid.

[Gerald]

Quite right UK, and even the U.S. should cut off all funds.