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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 06:20 PM
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Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-was-he-betrayed-of-course-pakistan-knew-bin-ladens-hiding-place-all-along-2278028.html

...Bin Laden told the world – indeed, he told me personally – that he wanted to destroy the pro-Western regimes in the Arab world, the dictatorships of the Mubaraks and the Ben Alis. He wanted to create a new Islamic Caliphate. But these past few months, millions of Arab Muslims rose up and were prepared for their own martyrdom – not for Islam but for freedom and liberty and democracy. Bin Laden didn't get rid of the tyrants. The people did. And they didn't want a caliph.

I met the man three times and have only one question left unasked: what did he think as he watched those revolutions unfold this year – under the flags of nations rather than Islam, Christians and Muslims together, the kind of people his own al-Qa'ida men were happy to butcher?
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Meeker Morgan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 06:27 PM
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1. Was he? Good! n/t
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robcon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 06:58 PM
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2. "Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along" Evidence???
Edited on Sun May-22-11 06:59 PM by robcon
Or your wished-for conclusion?

And who's "Pakistan"? The government? The people? Any evidence AT ALL?

It seems like a wish, since no evidence is forthcoming.
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