Pakistan: comments about imminent binLaden capture are POLITICAL

[Bluebear]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials dismissed a top American counterterrorism official's claim of progress in the hunt for Usama bin Laden, saying Monday that Pakistan does not have any information on the Al Qaeda leader's whereabouts.

The top government spokesman, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said the recent comments about bin Laden by J. Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, were a "political statement."

"We don't have any information about bin Laden," Ahmed said.

A senior Pakistani security official who attended meetings with Black and other U.S. officials last week in Islamabad said Black did not share information "about any possible hideouts of Usama."

"We cannot say that we are close to capturing him," the official said....

(more at FOX NEWS!)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131571,00.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. I wouldn't trust these people if my life depended on it

If OBL were suddenly to materialize I would be demanding an investigation into his "capture" before I break out the champagne.

[LunaC]

2. Pakistan is in bed with the CIA

and they participated in 911 MIHOP. (See link in sig line.)

They're totally untrustworthy!

[jjmalonejr]

3. Pakistan + CIA + Fox News = Not necessarily the truth