From Gulf Times:
WASHINGTON: Former US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld in 2005 cancelled a US mission to capture key figures in the Al Qaeda terrorist network out of fears that the effort would harm relations with Pakistan, The New York Times reported yesterday, according to press agency DPA.
Citing unnamed intelligence and military officials, the Times said Rumsfeld reasoned that the mission to capture Osama bin Laden’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri and other high-level terrorists would also risk too many US lives.The mission had in the end involved several hundred elite military and secret service personnel, making it in Rumsfeld’s opinion unwieldy and too difficult to clear with Pakistani authorities.According to the report, leading figures in the US military and intelligence felt the aborted mission was a missed opportunity to weaken the terrorist organisation behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
2 comments:
Whose side was Rumsfield on?
They had Navy Seals ready to go and get the Al Qaeda Sr. leaders and he aborted the mission in the 11th hour.
"Whose side was Rumsfield on?"
Wbere the money is...
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