Pakistan Can't Seem to Figure Out Why Bin Laden Was Hiding in Abbottabad -- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
The Pakistani commission appointed to investigate just how Osama bin Laden came to be living in Abbottabad, in a large house adjacent to Pakistan's military academy (a house built by an architect regularly employed by the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, according to a report from David Ignatius) appears to be struggling to reach a credible conclusion, and has already blown past its deadline:
Officials privy to the inquiry attributed the delay to the explosive question of naming and blaming those who were at the helm of affairs in secret agencies during the years Bin Laden was living in his safe house....
At least four generals, including incumbent military chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, served as head of the country's premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), from 2003 and 2011 -- during Bin Laden's years in Abbottabad...
"Of course, somebody was responsible and the commission is responsible for identifying that somebody," said an official. "But it seems the probe body is not going to do that," he added.
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My Comment: I agree with Jeffrey Goldberg .... too many fingers are pointing at too many key Pakistani military/security officials who had an indirect tie-in with Bin Laden. And while I do not think that internal Pakistani politics will change with this information .... how the outside world views Pakistan will change .... if not already.
On a side note, David Ignatius's article .... Pakistan and Osama bin Laden .... is a must read.
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