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Pakistan covers up bin Laden report

Published: 4 Jan 2013 at 08.57
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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan judicial commission submitted findings Thursday from its investigation into how Osama bin Laden lived in the country undetected for years until his killing by US special forces, officials said, but the report might never be revealed.

The commission was appointed 18 months ago, in what was welcomed as a chance to get to the bottom of one of the most embarrassing episodes in Pakistani history, but its findings could remain classified.The Pakistani government set up the five-member panel after US Navy SEALs conducted a secret raid on a compound in the garrison city of Abbottabad on May 2, 2011, killing bin Laden without informing Islamabad until afterwards.Parliament demanded an independent investigation into how bin Laden had been able to hide and whether there was any government or military collusion.The commission's chairman, retired judge Javed Iqbal, submitted the report to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday, a statement from Ashraf's office said.Pakistani officials say Ashraf will...

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taipan

Discussion 5 : 05 Jan 2013 at 01.495
Who cares about the report .The murderer is dead .
Previous commenters can leave their heads in the sand .
Extra judicial or not , it's done . Good riddance .
# 1 . I suppose the Holocost is a myth !
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Discussion 4 : 04 Jan 2013 at 17.394
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@robins #1: But the American government decided that bin Laden is guilty and obviously that is evidence enough – at least for a big part of the American population. Obama’s rating was up a couple of percent after the extra judicial killing and I guess that was the most important part about that operation - justice cowboy style.
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Discussion 3 : 04 Jan 2013 at 12.593
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No surprise here. I remember PM Musharef emphatically stating that OBL was dead years ago. Keep the billions in foreign aid pouring though, USA.
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Discussion 2 : 04 Jan 2013 at 12.502
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I think it is unlikely that Pakistan will publish the whole truth about bin Laden – same as the USA.
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Discussion 1 : 04 Jan 2013 at 11.341
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How would America react if the Pakistani military invaded their territory to perform an extrajudicial execution? Pakistan has less to be ashamed about than the USA in this affair. Bin Laden never had a trial so legally he is guilty of nothing.
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