Tuesday, February 21, 2012

What Did Pakistan Know About Bin Laden?

Fresh on the heels of former ISI chief Ziauddin Butt's charge that former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf knew Osama bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, David Ignatius reports that the architect who worked on the Abbottabad compound was regularly employed by the ISI.  Ignatius goes on to propose an interesting set of questions regarding how bin Laden came to be living in Abbottabad in a large house one mile from Pakistan's premier military academy, to be investigated by a special civilian commission in Pakistan.

Separately, Jeffrey Goldberg comments in the Atlantic as to why the Pakistani military's commission examining this exact question has yet to determine an answer, suggesting the commission has devoted more time investigating Pakistanis accused of helping U.S. intelligence prepare for the SEALs' raid than finding out who was hiding bin Laden.

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