How Pakistan hid Osama Bin Laden from the U.S

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The United States has been fighting the wrong war against the wrong enemy these past 13-years according to a damning new book – while behind closed doors Pakistan has been laughing in its ally’s face.

Pullitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Carlotta Gall claims that not only did Pakistan willfully hide 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden but also sponsored the Taliban insurgency after 2001 that has cost 2,625 American and British lives.

The respected reporter, who spent more than a decade in the region for the newspaper, alleges that Pakistan’s leadership have been tricking the United States into treating it as a friend for decades.

‘Pakistan did know,’ Gall said to ABC News, speaking about bin Laden’s location.

‘They were hiding him, they were handling him. Someone on the inside told me this. They had a special desk that knew where bin Laden was.

‘Not only that, but put him there, protected him, oversaw him, handled him in the terms of the secret intelligence services,’ she added.

‘And it’s all deniable, but I’m told the top bosses knew.’… see more

source: dailymail UK

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