Pakistan arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid
Pakistan: Pakistan has arrested five alleged informants for
the CIA who helped in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin
Laden in northern Pakistan in May, US media report.Among those held by
the intelligence agency, the ISI, was the owner of a safe house rented
to the CIA to watch Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, the New York
Times reported.
US President Barack Obama said “someone” was protecting Bin
Laden.Pakistan has denied knowing Bin Laden’s whereabouts.And US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on a recent visit to Pakistan
that there was “absolutely no evidence that anyone at the highest level
of the Pakistani government” knew where Bin Laden was.
The ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) has not so far made any public
comment on the arrests.However, soon after Bin Laden was killed on 2
May, witnesses told the BBC that at least four Pakistanis were arrested.
Two of the men were cousins of Bin Laden’s courier who were picked up
from their village in the north west.
The other two were picked up from, or near, Abbottabad, about 60km
(40 miles) north of the capital, Islamabad.
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