There has been lots of speculation flying around the web and the airwaves on just how Osama could have been in a large compound not an hour from the Pakistani capital and NO one knew he was there….as I said lots of speculation….and the world is waiting to see who will take the fall for this oversight…..wait NO longer….a fall guy has been found!
To allay both domestic and international anger and dismay over the presence of Osama bin Laden in a military cantonment town close to the capital, senior Pakistani officials have told The Daily Beast they recognize that an important head has to roll and soon. They say the most likely candidate to be the fall guy is Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director general of the country’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. These high-level sources, who refused to be quoted or named, say that it’s nearly a done deal. Savvy Pakistani analysts who have close connections to the military agree. “It would make a lot of sense,” says retired Pakistani Lt. Gen. Talat Masood. “It’s in his (Pasha’s) personal and the national interest to take the heat off.”
Now the media has something or should I say someone they can fixate on the blame game….let us see how it plays out!
Yes. I dare say pakistan does at times (as David Camron put it) look both way. In fact I’d say it HAS to in order for the government to survive since many citizens (usually the poorer ones) are anti western, or anti American.
That said, it’s much less embarrassing to to blame on guy, hoever important he is, rathe than to admit that their security is just plain crap!
God, there are some typos in that! …to put the blame on one guy, however important he is, rather than…” is what it shouild have said – duh!
No problem…..I have brain farts too…thank God for spell check…LOL
There is still an FBI and other investigation going on…I think the Paks are doing this trying to avoid any more scrutiny….
Ridiculous. Osama bin Laden has managed to evade the United States – a nation with far better intelligence capabilities than the next four combined – for over ten-years. To blame this on one guy is absurd.
And unlike most conservatives, I commend President Obama. He did a wonderful job. But that’s nothing new. Since taking office, Obama has done a superb job at managing our military. Iraq is basically won and Afghanistan is going swimmingly and now he’s killed bin Laden. The only blunder, in my view, might be Libya. We’ll have to see how that plays out.
I agree with you on this issue, Terrance, although I really don’t think American intelligence is even close to halfway as good as you seem to believe, but then I guess we all think we’re the best in many things.
That said, OBL must have had some internal support in Pakistan, but money and fear talk equally anywhere in the world and it is in any event a very different environment and society in that part of the world and it seems completely unreasonable to me to blame all this on one guy – the fall guy, as Lobo calls him. The love of the media for the “blame game” is in my view simply pathetic.
Yet, in the circumstances, it doesn’t seem to me to be realistic to even really blame it on Pakistan as a whole either. Anyone with half a brain would know that the people there are far from being 100% pro western and they have a right to that choice! The government and authorities have their own pressures and problems and, if we had been silly enough to trust every word they said, then how silly would that make us?
The sad and, to me, somewhat surprising thing is that, if only Obama had managed to run the US economy as well as he appears to have done militarily, you’d be riding high by now, eh?
In the end….sigint….was almost useless and it took spies on the ground to zero in on Osama
Our intelligence blunders were caused by human error. I’m speaking capabilities and technology. And I don’t think anyone is even close. But I guess you’d have to see some of the stuff I’ve seen to know what I’m talking about.
I really like that. There is something very American about it, I thought. Very good point.
If Obama ran the U.S. economy as well as the military, there would be no question who gets my vote in 2012. He still has a chance, too. Right now I’m not too impressed with any of the Republicans. I might just vote for Obama.
Scary huh? You and I agree on the voting thing….I am not too impressed with Obama either….and the Repubs that out there are less then impressive…….as long as they keep playing games with the economy we ALL will be screwed…..
Terrance they needed a fall guy that is all this guy is…..