Pakistan - Who helped bin Laden? (zaviews exclusive)

One year after the death of the leader of al Qaeda, the issue continues to tap the observers: Is that Pakistani intelligence agencies knew? Have they helped bin Laden in his escape? The ISI, the main security service, singing the same song for 12 months: nothing seen nor heard anything. Yet, few revelations have eroded the strength of these assertions. First there is the testimony of the last wife of deceased terrorist, Amal. This young Yemeni lived with her husband in Abbottabad, before being arrested by Pakistani authorities after the U.S. raid. Her account book of his residence to members of the Pakistan Commission of Inquiry, published by a local newspaper, is instructive.

Bin Laden had four children in captivity

She arrived in Pakistan since Afghanistan in 2002. She lived first in Karachi in the south, for eight to nine months without her husband that she ends up joining in Peshawar in 2002. The bin Laden will then move from house to house in the north-west, passing through the valley of Swat, and Haripur by, an hour's drive from Islamabad, where they remained two years. They moved to Abbottabad in 2005.Their house is about one kilometer from a military academy. Captivity did not stop Bin Laden to have children: four were born in Pakistan and Amal gave birth in a public hospital in Haripur twice. The bin Laden were therefore never lived in the Pakistani tribal areas, as many analysts thought, but within reach of handcuffs from the police and security agencies. And then there's this survey written by Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistani general. Eight months, the political analyst initiated research, ranging in Afghanistan, in the tribal areas and in Abbottabad, to understand why the authorities of his country did not themselves arrested Bin Laden. He found disturbing elements. Using his contacts in the army, he learned that in July or August 2010 the ISI had already suspicious of the villa of bin Laden in Abbottabad. So much so that junior officers write a note to send to the CIA. Message Subject: activate a satellite surveillance of the property. Strangely, the note has been lost in the meanders of the ISI since today the leadership of the agency denies the existence. What happened to this document yet capital? It's not all. Also in summer 2010, a Toyota Corolla type appears before the gate of bin Laden. He immediately opens. The occupants of the vehicle will stay about 10 days. The story comes from a resident of Abbottabad, who lives next to the house and Shaukat Qadir met. Who are these visitors?Mystery. According to the New York Times , the analysis of mobile phones seized by U.S. commandos in Abbottabad would have revealed the messenger contacts between bin Laden and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a Pakistani terrorist group known for its links with the ISI.

Pakistani paranoid services

The secrecy surrounding the complicity enjoyed by bin Laden has enough concern to Western intelligence agencies. To what extent can they trust their Pakistani counterparts? Cooperation with the French secret service in particular remains very limited and the raid against bin Laden has not helped matters. Furious at not having been warned, the Pakistani intelligence services have become paranoid against Westerners, they are diplomats, NGO members and journalists. Until recently, foreign embassies in Islamabad have been asked to provide a list of their agents and their staff of any Pakistani. Everyone knows that the ISI continues to maintain close relations with the Taliban, especially with Mullah Omar. Everyone knows that the Pakistani Taliban operate with impunity in Afghanistan from Waziristan are supported and armed by the Pakistani army. You do not need to be a great expert to identify the origin of weapons and ammunition seized from the insurgents, which are all of very recent manufacture Chinese or Pakistani origin, with export markings for law Pakistani. As for bin Laden, who can believe for a moment he will have spent nearly 10 years after the attacks of 11/09 to Pakistan, without anyone knowing, let alone in a big city not far from Islamabad? Since 2003, the Western media revel in a monstrous blindness to the role of Pakistan in the war in Afghanistan, forget again what role Pakistan played in the region during the Soviet war between 1979 and 1989.