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Summary The US demanded a report about the identities of the ISI officials to determine their affiliations.
According to a US paper, Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contacts with Osama Bin Laden or his agents in the years before the raid that led to his death.The officials provided new details of a tense discussion between Pakistani officials and special US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman, who travelled to Pakistan earlier in the week, as well as the growing suspicion among United States intelligence and diplomatic officials that someone in Pakistan’s secret intelligence agency knew of Bin Laden’s location, and helped shield him.Obama administration officials have stopped short of accusing the Pakistani government of complicity in the hiding of Bin Laden in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. One senior administration official privately acknowledged that the administration sees its relationship with Pakistan as too crucial to risk a wholesale break, even if it turned out that past or present Pakistani intelligence officials did know about Bin Laden’s whereabouts.Bin Laden’s wife, one of three wives now in Pakistani custody since the raid on Monday, told investigators that before moving in 2005 to the mansion in Abbottabad, Bin Laden had lived with his family for nearly two and a half years in a small village, Chak Shah Mohammad, near Haripur.
