Two stories hit the papers recently that, well, don't exactly make Pakistan look good.
First, on Tuesday The New York Times reported that the ISI has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who provided informatin to the CIA in the months leading up to the Abbottabad raid that killed bin Laden, including a Pakistani Army major who supposedly copied the license plates of cars visiting Bin Laden's compounds.
Second, the Associated Press reported yesterday that Hassan Ghul, the al-Qa'ida courier arrested by Kurdish forces in January 2004 carrying a message from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Ayman al-Zawahiri and who provided key information during interrogation that led U.S. intelligence to Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti - the courier that led to bin Laden - was released by the ISI and is now back with al-Qa'ida.*
Note to Pakistan: In the wake of bin Laden being discovered 30 miles from Islamabad, barely a kilometer from one of your most prestigious military headquarters, this is not the way to convince the United States of your sincerity as a strategic partner in the war against terrorism.
* Incidentally, do you think things might be a bit awkward for Hassan Ghul at whatever safe house he is hiding in now? Imagine the scene the day after bin Laden was killed:
"Brothers, I have terrible news! The infidel Americans have killed Father Osama!"
[Gasps and murmurs throughout the room]
"How did the Zionist pigs find him?"
"They say that interrogations revealed the existence of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and they tracked him back to Abbottabad!"
[More gasps and chatter]
"But who would ever be so foolish as to give those filthy dogs information about al-Kuwaiti?!?"
[Hassan Ghul, a sheepish look on his face, slowly edges towards the door of the room . . .]
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