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To: SmoothSail who wrote (424720)	5/3/2011 3:15:56 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794340

Quite a difference in the way we treated Pakistan 14 years ago when Clinton's Sec of State, Madeleine Albright, insisted on calling the Prez of Pakistan to let him know we were bombing Osama's camp in Afghanistan.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (424720)	5/3/2011 5:24:34 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 794340

According to FNA dispatches from Islamabad, all cellular and desk phone lines were down in large parts of Pakistan from dark to dawn to enable the US forces to stage an operation against the Al- Qaeda ringleader in Abbottabad, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Dark to dawn for a 40 minute operation? If true, I gotta believe we had follow up the same night, most likely generated from a quick review of documents, and questioning of folks found at the site. The intel guys would have been poring over that data even as they walked to the extraction helicopters.