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The New York Times
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 -- 10:32 PM EDT
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The New York Times
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 -- 10:32 PM EDT
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Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants Who Aided Bin Laden Raid
By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: June 14, 2011
WASHINGTON — Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.
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Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times
A casualty of the recent tension between the countries is an ambitious Pentagon program to train Pakistani paramilitary troops to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the northwestern tribal areas.
Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the weeks before the raid, is the latest evidence of the fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan. It comes at a time when the Obama administration is seeking Pakistan’s support in brokering an endgame in the war in neighboring Afghanistan... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/world/asia/15policy.html?_r=1&emc=na
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