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Pakistanis Tipped Off Militants Again, Says U.S. Officials

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WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas, giving the terror suspects time to flee, after U.S. intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government.

Those officials believe Pakistan's insistence on seeking local tribal elders' permission before raiding the areas may have most directly contributed to the militants' flight, though they also suspect low-level security officials may have tipped the militants off.

U.S. officials have pushed for Pakistan to keep the location of such targets secret prior to the operations, but the Pakistanis say their troops cannot enter the lawless regions without giving the locals notice.

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Two U.S. officials said they were asking the Pakistanis to withhold such sensitive information from the elders, and even their lower ranks, to carry out their raids in secret, to prove they could be trusted to go after U.S. enemies.

At least two of the sites were run by the Haqqani network, which is part of the Taliban, closely allied with al-Qaida, and blamed for some of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops and civilians in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan has long resisted attacking the Haqqani network, saying the group has never attacked the state of Pakistan.

The intelligence sharing was intended as a precursor to building a new joint intelligence team of CIA officers together with Pakistani intelligence agents. But U.S. officials say Pakistan has failed to quickly approve the visas needed, despite agreeing to form the team in May.

U.S. officials have also accused Pakistan of holding up to five Pakistani nationals accused of helping the CIA spy on the Abbottabad compound in advance of the bin Laden raid.

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Reply#1 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:09 PM EDT
California Militia

so if the pakistan army cannot enter the lawless areas without permission, why do we need pakistani permission to go after people or items in those areas.

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#1.1 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:36 PM EDT
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Water Hole

The Pakis have long been known to be double-dea

­lers. Its their tradition. The fact that we are relying on someone you wouldn't turn your back on in an alley is frightenin­g....

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Reply#2 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:10 PM EDT
Water Hole

Reader comments :

I think our real enemy is Pakistan.

I am all for turning on our friends when we discover that they are really working for the enemy. I really do think that we have to draw a line in the sand with these Al Queda friendly foes who also control and maintain a nuclear weapons arsenal. Iran has to be first on the list. We really just need to go ghetto on them, point our nucs at them and tell them to disarm or else...and mean it.

What is the statistica

­l probably that a nuclear bomb will not be detinated in a major city some place in the world in the next 50 years given that a nuclear bomb was detinate 65 years ago in Japan and an all-out nuclear war was minutes away during the bay of pigs only 45 years ago. The math is looking very good. ,

I know it sounds crazy since god forbid we actually start a conflict, but I would rather get the jump on the crazies than to give them the next 100 years to figure out how to kill us. They only need to get it right once.

This message was sponsored by Americans Who Would Rather Do the Nuking than be Nuked.org

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Reply#3 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:12 PM EDT
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