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    Default Let the "spinning" begin: Pakistan claims Bin Laden was isolated, broke

    By Munir Ahmed and Sebastian Abbot - The Associated Press
    Posted : Friday May 6, 2011 17:35:33 EDT

    ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military paints a far different picture than the United States of Osama bin Laden’s final days: not the terror mastermind still trying to strike America, but an aging terrorist hiding in barren rooms, short of money and struggling to maintain his grip on al-Qaida.

    Three of bin Laden’s wives were living with him in the compound and are being interrogated by Pakistani authorities, who took them into custody after Monday’s raid, along with 13 children, eight of them bin Laden’s.

    Their accounts could help shed light on the U.S. military operation that killed the al-Qaida leader and reveal how he was able to avoid capture for nearly 10 years.

    One of the wives, identified as Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, told interrogators she had been staying in bin Laden’s hideout since 2006 and never left the upper floors of the large but sparsely furnished building, said a Pakistani intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with the agency’s policy.

    http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news...-broke-050611/

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    Boohoo hooo hoooo......poor ol Binny. He was bwoke living on da dole. Boohoo.

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    Pakistan is going to be isolated and broke if they keep double crossing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linedoggie View Post
    Pakistan is going to be isolated and broke if they keep double crossing
    Just a matter of time I think, before the dog turns and bites the hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linedoggie View Post
    Pakistan is going to be isolated and broke if they keep double crossing
    Agreed, and thus they should be broke. Wonder if we will up the funds to Pakistan? Keep them where they are? Will be interesting to follow.

    Didn't they say he had money (500 Euros) sewn into his clothes? Pretty much broke to me. That mansion looked like a complete sh!t hole on the inside as well. Looked like squatters lived there.

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    So what if he were broke?

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    10 years of being on the run and probably buying protection would send anyone broke

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    Bastard still had more money than me =(( Plus he got to hang out with some pretty high speed fellows who drop in on him!

    Ah the life of a student... So boring, yet so safe

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    Quote Originally Posted by DasVivo View Post
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    Ah the life of a student... So boring, yet so safe
    Obviously ur doin it rong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linedoggie View Post
    Pakistan is going to be isolated and broke if they keep double crossing
    Amen (well said)

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    Quote Originally Posted by willytee View Post
    Agreed, and thus they should be broke. Wonder if we will up the funds to Pakistan? Keep them where they are? Will be interesting to follow.
    No doubt, China will maintain their close friendship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vandervahn View Post
    Obviously ur doin it rong.
    Tell me about it brother! But I did it right all too much in the past, hence Im still a student

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    Bin laden was isolated and broke - "broke" with 2 rounds in the head and "isolated" at the bottom of the ocean somewhere.

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    Course he was broke. Bribing ISI officials to hide him gets expensive after 8 years....

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    Quote Originally Posted by KB View Post
    By Munir Ahmed and Sebastian Abbot - The Associated Press
    Posted : Friday May 6, 2011 17:35:33 EDT

    ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military paints a far different picture than the United States of Osama bin Laden’s final days: not the terror mastermind still trying to strike America, but an aging terrorist hiding in barren rooms, short of money and struggling to maintain his grip on al-Qaida.

    Three of bin Laden’s wives were living with him in the compound and are being interrogated by Pakistani authorities, who took them into custody after Monday’s raid, along with 13 children, eight of them bin Laden’s.

    Their accounts could help shed light on the U.S. military operation that killed the al-Qaida leader and reveal how he was able to avoid capture for nearly 10 years.

    One of the wives, identified as Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, told interrogators she had been staying in bin Laden’s hideout since 2006 and never left the upper floors of the large but sparsely furnished building, said a Pakistani intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with the agency’s policy.

    http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news...-broke-050611/
    Does not this sound like ISI admits that they know about location of OBL?

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