Pakistan Accused Of Tipping Off More Militants About Raids -- Yahoo News/AP
US officials want country to keep operations secret.
WASHINGTON — US officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas, giving the terror suspects time to flee, after US intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government.
Those officials believe Pakistan’s insistence on seeking local tribal elders’ permission before raiding the areas may have most directly contributed to the militants’ flight. US officials have pushed for Pakistan to keep the location of such targets secret prior to the operations, but the Pakistanis say their troops cannot enter the lawless regions without giving the locals notice.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.
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My Comment: Since Bin Laden's death, I have learned two things about Pakistan .... (1) U.S. intelligence is far more effective on the ground in Pakistan than Pakistan's own intelligence services, and (2) Pakistan cannot be trusted with U.S. intelligence info.
On a side note .... this exercise of feeding information to Pakistan's intelligence services so that they can warn these terror groups that they have been marked tells me that in the event that U.S. intelligence has accurate information on the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahiri, they now have just cause to go after him in the same manner as they did to Bin Laden.
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