Bin Laden held fund raisers in Pakistan compound

Image by scott_bl8ke via FlickrDaily Mail:Osama Bin Laden held meetings with potential donors in his compound in Pakistan, it has been claimed.A senior Taliban official has said that the terrorist was not as isolated as the Americans thought - and also had extensive meetings with Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders.He apparently met with potential donors from Gulf states - including Saudi Arabia -

Taliban commander visited bin Laden in Pakistan compound

Image via WikipediaTelegraph:The revelation that the al-Qaeda chief had direct contact with his followers - and did not rely solely on messengers - came as a US-led task force urgently trawled captured documents and computer files for terror plots and information about extremists.British intelligence agents last week joined their US counterparts to sift through the material after repeated

Pakistan cuts off CIA from intelligence

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeSunday Telegraph:In the past, Pakistani agents have been credited with helping identify targets for drone strikes and providing data to the CIA on plans being hatched in its lawless tribal areas.Now buffeted and embarrassed by being kept in the dark for months as the US closed in on the al-Qaeda leader's bolthole, little more than 30 miles from the Pakistani

ISI relationship with terrorist on trial in Chicago

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeNY Times:Two years before terrorists struck the Indian port city of Mumbai, a Pakistani-American man named David Coleman Headley began laying the groundwork for the attack, financed, he claims, by $25,000 from an officer in Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service. Mr. Headley told Indian investigators that the officer, known only as Major Iqbal, “listened to my

Quetta nervous about a US raid to get Mullah Omar

Image via WikipediaReuters:U.S. forces tracked down and killed their most wanted enemy Osama bin Laden after a 10-year manhunt ended in a quiet Pakistani town. Now who is next?After killing the al Qaeda leader in a May 2 raid, the United States has made clear it will go after Islamist militants in Pakistan if it finds them, and at the top of any list would be Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad

Pakistan wants US not to kill their terrorist

Image via WikipediaFrom AFP:Pakistan insists on no repeat of bin Laden raid There would have been no need fro such a raid if Pakistan had done a better job of dealing with the terrorist that call that wretched country home.  The reason the US felt the need to do the job without Pakistan was Pakistan's refusal to aggressively go after the enemy sanctuaries within Pakistan.  If they could not be

Pakistan more upset with US raid than with failure to find bin Laden

Image via WikipediaNY Times:In an unusual, and apparently heated, closed-door session of parliament, Pakistan’s spy chief issued a rousing denunciation of the United States on Friday for its raid that killed Osama bin Laden and denied that Pakistan maintained any links with militant groups, according to lawmakers.Rather, the spy chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, blamed an intelligence failure

Pakistan to continue mimimum cooperation with US

Image via WikipediaNY Times:Despite mounting pressure from the United States since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems unlikely to respond to American demands to root out other militant leaders, according to people who have met with him in the last 10 days.While the general does not want to abandon the alliance completely, he is