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Summary Carl Levin says that it is hard to believe that Pakistan was unaware of Osamas compound.
US Senate’s Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator Carl Levin said that he believed that senior Pakistani officials knew Osama Bin Ladens location and they also knew the location of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.At high levels, high levels being the intelligence service ... they knew it, Levin said in an interview to a news channel.Levin is the highest-ranking US elected official to accuse the Pakistani government of knowing Bin Ladens whereabouts. I cant prove it, Levin said. I cant imagine how someone higher up didnt know it.”The thing that astounds me more than anything else is, Levin continued, the idea that people in the intelligence service or their police or their local officials didnt know he was there. I find that difficult to believe.Levin said that high levels of the Pakistani government knew where Osama Bin Laden was hiding, must know where Mullah Omar is too.The Senate Armed Services Committee, Levin said, has already started a preliminary investigation into Pakistans involvement and, depending on the results of that investigation, will decide whether to hold public hearings to investigate further.We need answers to the questions whether or not the top level of the Pakistan government knew or was told by the ISI about anything, about this suspicious activity for five years in a very very centralised place, Levin said.
