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THE White House has demanded that Pakistan hand over intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound as relations between the two allies hit a new crisis over the outing of America's top spy in Islamabad.
Mark Carlton, the purported CIA station chief, was named by a Pakistani newspaper and a private television news network over the weekend, the second holder of that post in less than a year to have his cover blown by the media, presumed to have official consent.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by FuGGer
How many differing stories does the WH have?
In another thread they say they are sorting through all the intel taken..
Now they say Pakistan hasn't handed it over??
Originally posted by yamother44
Strong message? Maybe to let us know how embarrassed they are. Pakistan is in a position where they cannot be upset about the United States entering sovereign territory without permission because the raid was widely accepted by the international community. This is all they can do right now. And its childish.
It was not immediately clear where the information that opened the end game was obtained. The New York Times reported Monday that detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave the courier’s pseudonym to interrogators and identified him as a protégé of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. But the Associated Press quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying that CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed strands that led to bin Laden.
Originally posted by yamother44
reply to post by FuGGer
Strong message? Maybe to let us know how embarrassed they are. Pakistan is in a position where they cannot be upset about the United States entering sovereign territory without permission because the raid was widely accepted by the international community. This is all they can do right now. And its childish.edit on 9-5-2011 by yamother44 because: word
Originally posted by yamother44
The international community is:
"We woke up in a safer world" - Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Union Parliament
"Last night the forces of peace were able to report a success" - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
"A massive step forward in the fight against terrorism" - British PM David Cameron
"A significant success for the security of NATO allies and all the nations" - The secretary-general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen
"The elimination of the leader of the terrorist al-Qaida organisation would be a step toward supporting international efforts aimed at fighting terrorism," Saudia Arabian state news agency
When you have world leaders praising the actions of the United States, it is very difficult for Pakistan to present a specific and deliberate opposition to being left out of the loop without looking like the bad guys to the rest of the world. So they resort to showing their disdain in other ways (i.e. outing the CIA station chief).
Originally posted by notsofunnyguy
Originally posted by yamother44
reply to post by FuGGer
Strong message? Maybe to let us know how embarrassed they are. Pakistan is in a position where they cannot be upset about the United States entering sovereign territory without permission because the raid was widely accepted by the international community. This is all they can do right now. And its childish.edit on 9-5-2011 by yamother44 because: word
Unless they could show the whole raid was false somehow, or at least OBL wasn't the actual target (remember some newscasts initially said he was killed a week earlier). But if the wife/daughter (assuming that's who they are) are saying OBL was killed in the raid (at least that's what we're being told they've said), then it makes it kind of hard to get around. Even with the "we dumped him at sea", "we're not going to show you the death photos", and "hey check out these (fake) OBL home videos" stuff we're getting.
The Pakistanis may be playing brinksmanship right now while the details of the helicopter pieces get worked out (I have a feeling the SEALs may have some trouble living that one down, at least within their close-knit community).
Originally posted by yamother44
According to the WH, Obama received intelligence from the CIA last August that Osama Bin Laden could possibly be hiding in the compound.
Originally posted by notsofunnyguy
Originally posted by yamother44
reply to post by FuGGer
Strong message? Maybe to let us know how embarrassed they are. Pakistan is in a position where they cannot be upset about the United States entering sovereign territory without permission because the raid was widely accepted by the international community. This is all they can do right now. And its childish.edit on 9-5-2011 by yamother44 because: word
Unless they could show the whole raid was false somehow, or at least OBL wasn't the actual target (remember some newscasts initially said he was killed a week earlier). But if the wife/daughter (assuming that's who they are) are saying OBL was killed in the raid (at least that's what we're being told they've said), then it makes it kind of hard to get around. Even with the "we dumped him at sea", "we're not going to show you the death photos", and "hey check out these (fake) OBL home videos" stuff we're getting.
The Pakistanis may be playing brinksmanship right now while the details of the helicopter pieces get worked out (I have a feeling the SEALs may have some trouble living that one down, at least within their close-knit community).
Originally posted by yamother44
reply to post by FuGGer
Strong message? Maybe to let us know how embarrassed they are. Pakistan is in a position where they cannot be upset about the United States entering sovereign territory without permission because the raid was widely accepted by the international community. This is all they can do right now. And its childish.edit on 9-5-2011 by yamother44 because: word