{"id":89228,"date":"2019-07-24T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89228"},"modified":"2019-07-24T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:47:41","slug":"report-pakistan-did-not-know-where-obl-was-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89228","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pakistan Did Not Know Where OBL was Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/osama-bin-laden.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89229 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/osama-bin-laden.jpg?resize=500%2C308&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/osama-bin-laden.jpg?resize=500%2C308&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/osama-bin-laden.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/osama-bin-laden.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several sources including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/pakistan-intelligence-agencies-didnt-know-bin-ladens-hideout-says-former-cia-director-general-david--2074592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDTV report<\/a> that <b class=\"place_cont\"><\/b>Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director General David Petraeus has said that he is &#8220;convinced&#8221; that the Pakistani intelligence agencies did not know Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>This conflicts with Prime Minister Imran Khan&#8217;s claims that the ISI provided a lead to the CIA that helped the US track down and kill the terror group al-Qaeda&#8217;s chief in 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Petraeus said that during counter-insurgency campaigns, Pakistani authorities could never close in on North Wazirstan where terror outfits such as the Haqqani network, al-Qaeda and others had their headquarters and some of their forces.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the US learnt later on that Osama bin Laden was not in that area but near the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad. &#8220;I figured out later that I had probably flown right over his compound in a helicopter as I went to address the cadets at the military academy one time,&#8221; he said, referring to the Pakistan Military Academy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes that is the best place to hide &#8211; right in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources including NDTV report that Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director General David Petraeus has said that he is &#8220;convinced&#8221; that the Pakistani intelligence agencies did not know Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. This conflicts with Prime Minister Imran Khan&#8217;s claims that the ISI provided a lead to the CIA that helped the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":89230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/OBL.jpg?fit=260%2C302&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-nda","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}