Graeme Smith Reports From Pakistan on Questions Raised About Osama bin Laden's Home & Killing 1 of 2

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Run time: 14:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4K8VRLg_Ic   Posted on YouTube: May 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: mediagrrl9 Views on YouTube: 504   Posted on DU: May 06, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 898

 
Numerous questions have been raised on how Osama bin Laden could have been living in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad just down the street from Pakistan's premier military academy. For more information, Demcracy Now! interviews Graeme Smith, an award-winning foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada, reporting in Abbottabad. CIA Director Leon Panetta has reportedly said Pakistan was either "knowledgeable or incompetent" when it came to bin Laden's whereabouts. Some evidence has emerged to indicate that the Pakistani military may have had a direct role in harboring bin Laden. Meanwhile, the Pakistani government is claiming it warned U.S. intelligence two years ago about the compound where bin Laden was killed.

Watch Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUez7mWhVk

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[Poll_Blind]

1. Recommended.

Part 1 of the interview is good and there's information I hadn't heard before in there. Part 2 I found much more interesting because of Smith's relationship with the Pakistani tribes- turns out the exact same questions that are popping up in New York are also popping up in tents in Pakistan.

What an interesting world.

PB

[JJW]

2. Cash Cow

Bin Laden is biggest cash cow in the history of the world. One result is one third of Americans can't afford health insurance or are under insured.

[KoKo]

3. K&R