Thursday, November 1, 2012

Will Pakistan's Osama Bin Laden Report Be Released?

An aerial view, released by the U.S. Department of Defense on May 2, 2011, shows the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. U.S. Department of Defense / Reuters

Will Pakistan Release Its Osama Bin Laden Abbottabad Report? -- Christian Science Monitor

More than a year after Pakistan said it would find out who was responsible for failing to catch Osama bin Laden on its own soil, a formal investigation has only produced rumors.

A year and a half after the Pakistani government said they would find out exactly what happened and who was responsible for failing to catch the most wanted man in the world – Osama bin Laden – hiding in plain sight in Pakistan, the only thing that has come from a formal investigation are rumors.

It generally takes Pakistan years to release findings from special commissions. At the most, reports may get leaked to press, but that also often takes months. Though many were hoping the report results would bring to task the powerful military establishment often accused by the West of supporting extremists and their affiliates, in light of reported leaks that the commission will exonerate Pakistani authorities, analysts believe that the whole exercise may have been futile.

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My Comment: This Pakistan report will be released when "hell freezes over" .... in short .... never. I also have doubts that they have even bothered to properly investigate who is responsible for failing to catch Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil.

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