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By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan now seems ready to allow the United States to interview the wives of Osama bin Laden who were with the al Qaeda leader when he was killed last week, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said on...
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By Mark Hosenball
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Tue May 10, 2011 12:52am EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan now seems ready to allow the United States to interview the wives of Osama bin Laden who were with the al Qaeda leader when he was killed last week, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The three wives and several children were among 15 or 16 people taken into custody by Pakistani forces after U.S. Navy SEAL commandos secretly flew into the country, killed bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad and spirited away his body for burial at sea, said the security official.
"The Pakistanis now appear willing to grant access. Hopefully they'll carry through on the signals they're sending," the official said.
There was no immediate comment from the White House.
Pakistan is a vital ally to Washington in the war against Islamist militants in neighboring Afghanistan but relations already were rocky over U.S. drone strikes against insurgents in border regions, differences about priorities and U.S. espionage in the nuclear-armed Muslim country.
Prickly ties between the Central Intelligence Agency and Pakistan's main spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), have worsened with the revelation that bin Laden lived for five years in Abbottabad, home to Pakistan's main military academy and not far from the capital Islamabad.
The CIA has no intention of bringing home its chief operative in Pakistan despite an apparent attempt by Pakistani media to unmask his identity, U.S. officials said on Monday.
While the media reports apparently were inaccurate, U.S. officials said they believe the leak was a calculated attempt to divert attention from demands for explanations of how bin Laden could have hidden for years in such a prominent place.
U.S. officials suspect the attempted outing of the CIA station chief in Islamabad -- the second incident of its kind in six months -- was the work of someone in the Pakistani government or the ISI.
The Obama administration has demanded access to ISI operatives and bin Laden's wives to try to map out al Qaeda's network.
'A TRUE PRO'
A private Pakistani TV network and a newspaper published what they said was the real name of the top CIA operative.
Two U.S. officials familiar with dealings between Washington and Islamabad said the name the TV channel aired was wrong and that the real station chief would remain.
"The current CIA station chief is a true pro, someone who knows how to work well with foreign partners and is looking to strengthen cooperation with Pakistani intelligence," one of the U.S. officials said.
In December, the man then serving as the CIA's station chief left Pakistan after his name appeared in local media accusing him of complicity in U.S. missile attacks in which civilians were killed.
U.S. officials said they believe the exposure of that station chief was deliberate retaliation by elements of ISI who were upset their agency and some of its officers had been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court.
It was filed by the families of Americans killed by Pakistani militants in attacks on a Jewish center and other civilian targets in Mumbai, India, in November 2008.
Allegations about ISI's alleged relationship with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based group accused of carrying out the Mumbai attack, are expected to be aired at the trial in Chicago this month of a businessman accused by U.S. authorities of involvement with the militant group.
(Editing by Warren Strobel and John O'Callaghan)
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Jonalist wrote:
OK, so what about children, is this something that a Editor & Chief would like to say Job Well Done regarding Child Care, is that a tremendous problem in composing a article with authorities looking you in your face wondering “What Is That Guy Suppose To Be Doing”. I can’t see getting access is going to turn evidence when they are more concerned about kids just like everyone carrying a gun should be – Stupid people do stupid thing when they are writing books on HOW TO BE STUPID. Grow Up Al Qaeda – Get Out Of Their Lives. Do a nation some good, GO KILL Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi if you have to kill someone to stop him from killing anyone else. Be Wise Don’t Be Stupid.
May 10, 2011 1:07am EDT -- Report as abuse
Jonalist wrote:
The education your wasting is Agricultural, in a mighty big way what machinery you could have working to better the nation of Pakistan is not even being shown you in a showroom because you can’t find the time to go buy it to teach others to drive that machinery & harvesting is a borrowers way in Pakistan, got a mule for rent? The days of the hard way have past, like the days of Osama bin Laden have past & with that said also disease in crops & famine & starvation. Your really missing the boat teaching kids to kill when they decide to kill you how are you going to explain to them they need to learn how to harvest, what is there to harvest by your own hands? You fought foot-full into a society that knows what it is like not to have bread & milk & butter on their tables. Your wishing you had a future like that & you can’t get it the way your aiming to commit crime. Stop committing crime in the eyes of children that learn crime.
May 10, 2011 1:14am EDT -- Report as abuse
royalcourtier wrote:
If I was Pakistani I wouldn’t any longer be willing to help America.
For years Pakistan has suffered as a result of being dragged into American wars. Then American forces invade the country in order to carry out an assassination.
America has stabbed its ally in the back (nothing new in that, I am afraid). It is time that Pakistan accepted that to America it is expendible, and isn’t even a sovereign country. I wonder how many people will now begin to think that with “friends” like America, who needs enemies.
May 10, 2011 2:48am EDT -- Report as abuse
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