The Taliban leaders weren't vaporized. I thought you knew that. If Hersh gets info on the leaders gaining an escape route courtesy of the US, you can be UBL got even better treatment.
Considering the Saudi Royals whose baby son UBL is, and the cozy BBQs they have in Crawford, it all smells fishy.
guardian.co.uk
An American-approved evacuation of Pakistani military officials from the besieged Afghan city of Kunduz last November "slipped out of control", allowing al-Qaida fighters to join the exodus, it was claimed yesterday.
"Dirt got through the screen," a US intelligence official told New Yorker magazine.
According to the magazine, the US allowed Pakistan's military officials to be flown to safety to preserve the political standing of General Pervez Musharraf, whose survival is seen as crucial to the American war effort.
The exodus - which the administration insisted at the time had not taken place - was intended only to rescue Pakistani officials from Kunduz, which was surrounded by Northern Alliance troops backed by American forces.
But the New Yorker's defence correspondent, Seymour Hersh, quotes a senior intelligence source as saying that Taliban and al-Qaida fighters slipped on board. "Everyone brought their friends with them," a defence adviser told him.
The US military may even have directly co-operated in the airlifts, according to the article, which is based on conversations with intelligence officials and senior military officers. Two such sources told Hersh that the US central command was ordered to establish a special air corridor to guarantee that the rescue flights could proceed safely. |
