Pakistan orders bin Laden investigation

[steve2470]

Source: AFP

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Monday met US demands for an inquiry into how Osama bin Laden lived for years under the noses of its military but refused to be blamed alone for Al-Qaeda or its mastermind.

In a 30-minute address to parliament, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani took veiled swipes at the United States and exonerated Pakistan's military of complicity or incompetence over the world's most-wanted terrorist.

Alluding to US funding in conjunction with Pakistan's role in the 1990s war against Soviet troops in Afghanistan, which ultimately gave birth to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Gilani said it was unfair for Pakistan to take all the blame.

"Collectively, we must acknowledge facts and see our faces in the mirror of history. Pakistan alone cannot be held to account for flawed policies and blunders of others. Pakistan is not the birth place of Al-Qaeda," he said

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Redux of Casablanca.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtzEeGjoXc

[cosmicone]

2. With Inspector Clouseau in charge n/t

[JDPriestly]

3. And after all the money we gave Pakistan's military in recent years,

they harbored Bin Laden.

Gilani's arguments are pitifully weak.