Pakistan rattled by news of CIA safe house in Abbottabad

[steve2470]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20060479-503543.html

The CIA conducted surveillance on Osama bin Laden from a nearby safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where bin Laden was killed Sunday, CBS News has confirmed.

A U.S. government source told CBS News' Chris Isham that Pakistani authorities are stunned -- and concerned -- that the U.S. was able to maintain the secret safe house without the knowledge of the ISI, Pakistan's federal intelligence service.


"They were already concerned about U.S. intelligence operations in Pakistan, as we know in the wake of the Ray Davis case. Now they are completely spun up and very concerned about other U.S. penetrations," Isham reports, paraphrasing his conversation with the government source.


Under former Pakistani President Pervez Musharaf, the CIA was largely dependent on ISI for intelligence and conducted few, if any, unilateral intelligence operations. Now the U.S. is expecting Pakistan to push back further against any U.S. intelligence presence there.

[EFerrari]

1. "This would be a great town except for all the goddam vampires."

lol

[emulatorloo]

2. Pakistan is in damage control mode.

Expect to hear lots of bluster. Anything to distract.

[FSogol]

3. Were they rattled by the news that Bin Laden was there?

:shrug:

[seabeyond]

5. really, lol. nt

[seabeyond]

4. whole purpose of the safe house is for others to not know of it....

so they will be safe

[jberryhill]

6. I have GOT to get me a house in Abbottabad

Everyone else has one, and nobody told me.

[brooklynite]

7. So, apparently the CIA did a better job of hiding than OBL did...

[robinlynne]

8. "Pakistan rattled that it is about to lose billions of US tax dollars."