Over the last couple of days, I have talked to many senior level correspondents and executives at major Arabic news networks including but not limited to Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. I asked them what they thought their viewing audience “needed to see” regarding the death of Osama bin Laden.
This just in on David Corn’s twitter feed: Carney saying Pakistan has been helpful in general re aQ, including info used for OBL raid. #whbrief Key words here are “in general”. This interests me a great deal because a couple of sources the night the raid became known told me that Pakistan had helped.
Politico‘s Ben Smith has the scoop that Sarah Palin and foreign policy advisers Randall Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb have parted ways. According to the article, the neoconservative Scheunemann said flatly to Palin, “We can’t give you the time.
Politico‘s Josh Gerstein and I had a quick chat about the implications of the successful operation by the Navy SEAL team that penetrated Pakistan’s territory and snuffed out one of the great terror masters of our time.
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In December 2004, I worked with Peter Bergen and Karen Greenberg in organizing a major conference in the US Senate titled “Al Qaeda 2.0“. Bergen, probably the world’s most famous al Qaeda and bin Laden tracker, had arranged one of the first major interviews by a Western journalist of bin Laden in 1997.
Obama chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan laid out the key detail that contrary to some reports (including here at TWN), Pakistan was not informed about the raid before it took place. According to the Washington Post, Brennan also said it was “inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system” in Pakistan.
Former Palestine Prime Minister and Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh has made a wrong-headed and in my view idiotic statement condemning the US for killing Osama bin Laden. According to Reuters, Haniyeh said: We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.
President Barack Obama just spoke to the nation and world and reported on his role in making the decision to act on intelligence that Osama bin Laden had been found in Pakistan. He took action. US intelligence operatives moved on bin Laden a week ago. Obama said, “Justice has been done”.
According to sources in the US intelligence community, bin Laden was near/in Islamabad, Pakistan. He was with family in a compound. Leads from Pakistan ISI — that’s right — ISI, led US forces and intel to the site.*** The US used own sources to confirm and “received clearance to strike from Pakistan.
