Pakistani complicity in hiding bin Laden
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Journalist Steve Coll discusses factors implicating elements of the Pakistani military in hiding Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad with PBS' Frontline.
"It strains credulity that you could build a million dollar home with heavy fortifications, 12 to 15-foot walls, and house within it the world's most wanted man, in a city like Abbottobad, which is essentialy a military cantonment town, and not have anyone in the military know he's there."
The Wall Street Journal has further coverage of suspicions about Pakistani knowledge of bin Laden's whereabouts:
Two senior U.S. officials and a high-level European military-intelligence official who have direct working knowledge of Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, say similar elements linked to the ISI have aided other Pakistan-based terror groups, the Haqqani militant network and Lashkar-e-Taiba."There's no doubt he was protected by some in the ISI," the European official said of bin Laden. The officials say they believe these ISI elements include some current and former intelligence and military operatives with long-standing ties to al Qaeda and other militant groups.
