Who sheltered Osama bin Laden? Kayani among suspects

[cosmicone]

Source: Times of India

NEW DELHI: The US is turning the heat on Pakistan's ISI as it tries to establish the identity of those who sheltered Osama bin Laden in the garrison town of Abbottabad. And, going by reports in the US media and assessments made by Indian experts, the needle of suspicion is pointing at not just ISI boss Shuja Pasha but also two of his predecessors, one of whom is none other than Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.

Kayani was the ISI chief when Osama is said to have shifted to the Abbottabad mansion in 2005. Pasha is now said to be under pressure to quit as the ISI failed to detect Osama's presence for almost three years under him. Kayani's successor in the ISI, Nadeem Taj who took over in October 2007, is the third and an equally strong suspect. Known as the most rabid anti-US and anti-India boss the agency has had in the recent past, Taj was eased out of ISI after a 10-month tenure in 2008 allegedly under pressure from the US.

"In any enquiry regarding collusion between the ISI and Osama bin Laden since 2005, which enabled OBL to live in Abbottabad, the main suspicion has to be on Nadeem Taj followed by Pasha and Kayani," security expert B Raman said. It was during Taj's tenure as ISI chief that the agency used David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana for reconnaissance missions in India and during which the July 2008 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul took place. It is significant that Taj was heading the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad before taking over as ISI chief.

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The Pakistani complicity in funding various terror groups is going to be exposed and unraveled.

I hope this makes Pakistan change its direction from a belligerent Islamic state hell bent on being a menace to a benevolent democracy that works to provide a better life for its citizens.

[TxVietVet]

1. ISI knew OBL was there. They probably guarded him.

I feel very confident in saying this. The Afghani Intelligence official spokesman has already said it. From past actions concerning the ISI, the Taliban and al Qaeda, I firmly believe they would allow OBL to live in Pakistan. That's why the US didn't inform the Paks because those two-face bastards would have spirited him out of harms' way.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Dick And Bush are craping in there underoos . n/t

[cosmicone]

3. I wonder why this posting was moved from LBN to GD without explanation. n/t