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# Osama bin Laden dead: angry Pakistan drops intelligence sharing with West
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## Pakistan's intelligence services are refusing to share details of suspects
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or plots with their American counterparts in protest at the US operation to
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kill Osama bin Laden, raising the potential threat of attacks on Western
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cities.
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![Osama bin Laden's family is a wealthy dynasty with old business links with
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Saudi royalty. ][1]
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Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The US special forces' killing of the al-Qaeda
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leader has angered Pakistani intelligence services. Photo: AP
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[![Rob Crilly][2]][3]
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By [Rob Crilly][4], Islamabad 6:54PM BST 14 May 2011
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[Follow Rob Crilly on Twitter][5]
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In the past, Pakistani agents have been credited with helping identify targets
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for drone strikes and providing data to the CIA on plans being hatched in its
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lawless tribal areas.
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Now buffeted and embarrassed by being kept in the dark for months as the US
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closed in on the al-Qaeda leader's bolthole, little more than 30 miles from
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the Pakistani capital Islamabad, agents with the Inter-Services Intelligence
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directorate have begun to withhold crucial operational details about militants
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on its territory.
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At the same time, new details have emerged about **[bin Laden's][6]**
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extensive support network inside **[Pakistan][7]**, reaching all the way to
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the sprawling port city of Karachi.
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The revelations will heap more pressure on to an administration already
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accused of helping shelter the world's most wanted man.
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_The Sunday Telegraph_ has learned that the ISI, which prides itself on
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arresting a series of key terrorists including the 9/11 mastermind Khalid
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Sheikh Mohammed, has now broken off relations with the Central Intelligence
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Agency.
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## Related Articles
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* [Britain 'a target for bin Laden terror attacks'][8]
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14 May 2011
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* [Taliban visited bin Laden hideout][9]
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14 May 2011
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* [Large pornography stash found in bin Laden compound][10]
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13 May 2011
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* [Taliban suicide bombers kill 80 in bin Laden revenge attack][11]
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13 May 2011
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* [Hidden in plain sight][12]
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08 May 2011
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"They are furious. They handed over telephone intercepts in 2009 that were
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crucial in leading to bin Laden's courier - the key breakthrough in the hunt,"
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said a source briefed on relations between the two countries.
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"Then four months ago they were told there was nothing in it, it was what the
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Americans called a 'cold lead'. Since then they have been left out completely
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out of the loop."
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Senior officials in the US have briefed journalists to say they stopped
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sharing information because they feared Islamist sympathisers within Pakistani
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security forces would tip-off bin Laden - ruining the best lead they had ever
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had.
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Lieutenant General Talat Masood, a military analyst, said the stand-off would
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raise the threat to American cities and to Nato-led troops from plots hatched
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in Pakistan's tribal regions, headquarters of al-Qaeda linked militant groups.
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"There are implications for both the US and international forces in
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Afghanistan, so the Americans will be very interested in getting the
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relationship back on track," he said.
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However, politicians in Pakistan are intent on making the US pay for an
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apparently unauthorised raid on its soil.
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The past fortnight has been deeply embarrassing for Pakistan's previously
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admired military and intelligence apparatus.
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The generals face tough questions over how the US was able to launch a raid on
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its territory without anyone noticing.
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They must also explain how the world's most wanted man could live for at least
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five years right under their noses, less than a mile from the country's
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officer training academy in Abbottabad.
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Last week, President Barack Obama said bin Laden had a "support network"
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within Pakistan and demanded to know whether government officials or military
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officers knew of his presence.
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US suspicions of collusion have frozen relations between the two countries,
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which were already frosty following the arrest of CIA agent in Lahore earlier
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this year after he shot dead two men.
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On Friday night, with intelligence officials already suspending intelligence
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sharing, Pakistan's parliament also called for a review of the country's
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relationship with the US.
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During a 10-hour joint session held to debate the American raid, MPs demanded
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an independent investigation to replace a planned military inquiry.
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And they also unanimously passed a resolution urging a ban on Nato transit
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convoys taking supplies from the port of Karachi to Afghanistan unless the US
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ends its controversial programme drone attacks.
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Politicians who stayed late into the night said the head of the ISI admitted
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intelligence failures and said he was prepared to resign if he no longer had
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their support, an offer refused by the head of Army.
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However, documents recently released by WikiLeaks will only deepen their
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embarrassment. Testimony from prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay describes
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elements of bin Laden's support network deep inside Pakistan, tasked with
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helping the fugitive evade justice, and also describe a meeting between the
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Taliban's one-eyed leader Mullah Omar and ISI agents.
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Shortly before 9/11, bin Laden began his preparations to elude US reprisals
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and begin his life on the run.
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Mohammed Ahmad Rabbani, "who had the full trust and confidence of al-Qaeda
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leadership" according to leaked detainee files, told interrogators that he ran
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a series of al-Qaeda safe houses in Karachi, the economic heart of Pakistan.
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About two months before airliners crashed into the World Trade Centre, he was
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ordered to procure supplies and construction materials in Karachi and send
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them to Afghanistan.
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There they were used to extend an existing network of caves and tunnels at
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Tora Bora deep into the mountains that separate Afghanistan from Pakistan.
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Bin Laden and his lieutenants disappeared into the caves in December 2001 -
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the last known sighting before Navy Seals shot him dead two weeks ago - as US
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warplanes bombed the area.
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Other detainees said bin Laden had lived there with three wives, 25 bodyguards
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and dozens more al-Qaeda operatives including his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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The documents also show further evidence of how ISI operatives liaised with
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and senior Taliban figures. In one example, Pakistani intelligence officers
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met Mullah Omar, the one-eyed head of the Afghan Taliban, along with other
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militia commanders in Quetta, south-western Pakistan.
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## [Al-Qaeda][6]
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* ### [News »][18]
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* ### [World News »][19]
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* ### [Asia »][20]
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* ### [Pakistan »][7]
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* ### [Rob Crilly »][3]
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[![Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban][21] ][22]
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### [Taliban leader reported killed][22]
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