Pakistan rattled by news of CIA safe house in Abbottabad

In this 1998 file photo, Osama bin Laden holds a press conference in Khost, Afghanistan.

/ AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan

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.

The Killing of Osama bin Laden

"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.

The CIA and the ISI have worked closely together since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to hunt down al Qaeda operatives sheltering in Pakistan. But U.S. officials have often voiced suspicions that elements of the ISI were either linked to or supporting militants even as the two countries publicly talked of their alliance in the campaign against extremism -- and documents recently released by WikiLeaks show U.S. officials have described the ISI as a terrorist organization similar to Hamas or Hezbollah.

Relations between the two agencies hit a new low this year after an American CIA contractor shot and killed two Pakistanis he claimed were robbing him. Since then, the ISI has complained about American drones strikes along the Afghan border and the alleged existence of scores of CIA agents in the country without its knowledge.

The CIA safe house was part of an all-encompassing U.S. intelligence operation that ramped up after the discovery last summer of the suspicious compound that turned out to be bin Laden's.

The effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it, U.S. officials told the Washington Post.

[JRC_903]

This reaction may show that they are both complicit and incompetent--not one or the other. Their main problem with credibility lies in the appearance that while they were "surprised" to lean that that Bin Laden was hiding in their mist, they were mortified that the CIA was there also. Seeming to suggest, that they were more comfortable "NOT KNOWING" about Bin Laden, then the CIA?

[finklestein]

AUDIO CLIP: Top Insider Prepared to Testify 911 Was False Flag Attack- Steve Pieczenik

http://blip.tv/file/5118363

Radio interview on May 3, 2011 this section at 8 minutes 20 seconds here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dxhpsFrQc

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack (inside job.) Also says Bin Laden has been "on ice" literally since 2001. Pieczenik served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. Former US Navy Captain. Served as a senior policy planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker and worked on George W. Bush's election campaign against Al Gore. Also is on Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a medical doctor and a best-selling author who works with Tom Clancy.

TRANSCRIPT: "The event of 911 was carried out for one purpose...to mobilize the American public to go to a war that they didn't need that they knew nothing about where we had pre-positioned soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq 6 to 9 months beforehand, ...it was based on Paul Wolfowitz's, Dick Cheney's, Bush junior, Steve Hadley, Elliot Abrams, in the White House, Khalazid, Dennis Ross who is still an envoy...Condoleeza Rice, all the people who were in the military particularly the Air Force generals who were involved, they can deny it any way they want I hae a whole list of names, they all know who they are, and the intel and CIA operatives who worked under SOLECs, Special Operations for Low Intensity Conflict were all involved...it was called a stand-down and false flag operation in order to mobilize the American public under the false pretense that we had been attacked by Al Qaeda and bin Laden which is an absolute unmitigated lie. I was even told by a general on the staff of Wolfowitz, I will go in front of a federal committee and swear on perjury who that name was so we can break this open...The issue of Osama bin Laden who had died...really brought out the issue of the great war and the great lie that was created for us to make sure we had some kind of commitment to a war that was not necessary in which so much blood and guts were shed for unnecessary reasons."

CREDENTIALS SEARCH:

UK Guardian on recent book on killing of Aldo Moro:

"An American envoy has claimed that he played a critical role in the fate of Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister who was murdered by terrorists in 1978. who as, an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the State Department, said that Moro had been "sacrificed" for the "stability" of Italy."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581425/US-envoy-admits-role-in-Aldo-Moro-killing.html

He is also quoted in New York Times here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/08/us/seat-of-power-and-woe.html

Member listing at Council on Foreign Relations:
http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=P

Citations at National Military Intelligence Association:
http://www.nmia.org/?AIJ0410

ABC Television News Archive, 1986 segment on terrorism featuring Pieczenik as expert source:

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=98903

May 3, 2011

BREAKING: "Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack" "Bin Laden had already been "dead for months," and that the government was waiting for the most politically expedient time to roll out his corpse. Pieczenik would be in a position to know, having personally met Bin Laden and worked with him during the proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan back in the early 80?s" Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job. Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist". He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. A former US Navy Captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT...."

MORE
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/04/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag/

FULL INTERVIEW HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjtNiTm99e8

[democracy5]

Oh, please! People like you are SUCH an embarrassment!

[euge005]

Hush, we are not allow to think about the inside job on 9-11.

[animaltoo]

They are concerned that they failed to realize the CIA was in a safe house while claiming they didn't know about bin Laden? Right, and we need more Mexicans to boost our economy. My logic is on track.

[tommjintheusa]

Throw money at the problem
Politions are the problem they consistently pick the wrong side and then throw more money at the problem.
Pakistanis are liars and thieves Stop All aid to these countries

[animaltoo]

We are importing liars and thieves by the thousands every day over our southern border.

[ZungRee]

lol, tell them to get over it, its all good lol.

www.anon-toolz.at.tc

[meshine]

The problem is we don't know how many if any of those Pakistani ISI Agents are hiding out in America. Careful how we offend those people because if they were responsible for the terroist attacks in Mumbai India, they may very well attempt to do the same thing here.

[confused2byu]

So Pakistani intelligence didn't know Bin Laden was there nor did they know we were there. Really on top of the game aren't they.

[zzacrat]

It's funny that you say it that a way. This safe house was a house full of loose girls that work cheep. They was gone on the same time period that this raid took place. So I guest that you could say that they was on top of this, all of the way, to the very happy ending.

[1pheasant1]

Pakistani intelligence service is shaping up to be quite the oxymoron isn't it?

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Did President Bush have intelligence and did he share it with the Pakistanis?

[ariz_1944]

LMAO!!! Bush has NEVER had "Intelligence" to share with ANYONE!!!

[euge005]

You imply that his handlers would tell him anything important, like an inside attack on our own country, their decision to start a war or that they would allow him to decide to share intelligence with anyone or not. I recall that in this period the main efforts of W were to learn to speak in complete sentances and it took him years to master a sentance with 6 or more words.

[_Liann_]

ISI trained terrorists who shot up and blew up people in Mumbai India Hotel Raids. That's all you need to know about them.

[morriswise]

There has never been a bigger money maker for the protection industry than the boogyman OBL, he created millions of jobs. He was no longer needed as the war against terrorism is winding down. The new enemies will be the rogue states which will require trillions to take them down.

[Toddwest]

The domestic spying apparatus is the biggst threat to freedom. Some of it is downright evil.