Security chiefs must end Pakistan’s duplicity In the early hours of Monday morning at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Navy Seals swept in and killed Osama bin Laden, along with the al-Qaeda leader’s 24-year old son, the two men who were his trusted couriers and an unidentified woman. But as Pakistan now awakens to a post-bin Laden era, the nuclear-armed nation seems unable to respond truthfully or credibly to the duplicity of its policies, or the complicity of its spy agency in harbouring a mass murderer.
The compound’s location near an elite Pakistani military academy and among the homes of high-ranking Pakistani military retirees raises hard questions about Pakistan’s role in harbouring the al-Qaeda leader in plain sight while its intelligence services and military chiefs nursed on the American taxpayer’s wallet. It is unclear who built the compound, or owned the land, or even who brought groceries and supplies – and whether any of this was known to Pakistan’s spy services.
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