Cellphone links Bin Laden to ISI: Report

[CoolDool]

So they are going to declare ISI a terrorist orgnization or they will just use it to pressurize Pak Army ?

WASHINGTON: A cellphone used by Osama bin Ladens courier appears to show that the al Qaeda leader was aided by militants linked to Pakistani intelligence, The New York Times said Thursday.
Citing US officials briefed on an investigation into the phone, the Times said calls from the device were traced to Harakat-ul-Mujahideen, a militant group linked to Pakistans powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
Its a serious lead, one US official told the Times. Its an avenue were investigating.
Another US official told the daily that the link was not, however, a smoking gun that definitively linked bin Laden to the ISI, as it was unclear if the calls were related to him.
The phone was seized during a daring US commando raid in Pakistan last month in which both bin Laden and his courier were killed.
The Pakistan-based Harakat ul-Mujahideen is classified as a terrorist organisation by the United States.
Defence analysis group Janes said the outfit has conducted raids on Indian security positions and is active in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The Times said it has maintained clandestine links with the ISI for years.
Relations between Pakistan and the United States, tense at the best of times, deteriorated sharply over the bin Laden raid, which humiliated the Pakistani military and invited allegations of incompetence and complicity.
As US President Barack Obama seeks to bring an end to the war in Pakistans neighbour Afghanistan, US and Pakistani officials have sought to play down any unease between them.

 

[SaadKnight]

This is just the beginning. Amreeka Afghanistan se jatay jatay naya shagoofa chor raha hai k khatra Pakistan se hai isi aar mein is tarhan ki khabrein ab bahar ki media de gi

 

[Truth-seeker]

Why do we have to take their bullS##t on everything?why cant we tell the us and the world that this whole obl thing was Bulls##t?they should see to it who their cia was and is ivolved with leave our isi alone.

 

[bravo]

First david heaadley links with isi and now Osama bin laden!!

ISI and pakistan army is now under entire control of america!they can blacklist ISI,army and associate with terrorism..

And that will push pakistan into evil states :iran,north korea!!

Pakistan needs to fight the extremists with more determination

 

[SaadKnight]

Why do we have to take their bullS##t on everything?why cant we tell the us and the world that this whole obl thing was Bulls##t?they should see to it who their cia was and is ivolved with leave our isi alone.

Yar the world knows about it but hamam mein sab nangay hain. Poori dunia Islamic states k khilaf hai. Aisa hi hoga. Abhi Islamic world zawaal pazeer hai.

 

[Night_Hawk]

Phone gives clues to bin Laden’s Pakistan links: report

Reuters (1 hour ago) Today

Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. — File photo

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WASHINGTON: A cell phone found in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan contained contacts to Harakatul Mujahedeen, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing senior US officials briefed on the findings.
The discovery indicated that bin Laden used the group as part of his support network inside Pakistan, the newspaper said, citing the officials and other sources it did not identify.
The cell phone belonged to bin Laden’s courier, who was killed along with the al Qaeda leader in the May 2 raid by US special forces on bin Laden’s compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad, the Times said.
“We cannot confirm this account,” a US official in Washington said when asked about the report.
The United States kept Islamabad in the dark about the raid by Navy SEALs until after it was completed.
In tracing calls on the cell phone, US analysts determined that Harakat commanders had called Pakistani intelligence officials, the Times reported, citing senior American officials.
The officials added the contacts were not necessarily about bin Laden and his protection and that there was no “smoking gun” showing that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had protected bin Laden, the newspaper said.
The newspaper quoted one of the officials as saying the cell phone analysis was a “serious lead” in the hunt for answers about how bin Laden managed to evade notice by Pakistan’s ISI or military for years in the town, only 30 miles from the capital.
The newspaper quoted analysts familiar with Harakat as saying it had deep roots in the area around Abbottabad. Its leaders have strong ties with both al Qaeda and the Pakistani intelligence, the Times said.


http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/24/phone-gives-clues-to-bin-ladens-pakistan-links-report.html