Tuesday, May 03, 2011

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: US Feared Pakistan Might 'Alert' Bin Laden About Raid Says CIA

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: US Feared Pakistan Might 'Alert' Bin Laden About Raid Says CIA
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - May 3, 2011:

The Obama administration on Tuesday gave its clearest signal yet that it did not trust its ally Pakistan with information on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts.

CIA Director Leon Panetta told senators Tuesday at a briefing on the bin Laden mission that the administration decided against informing Pakistan because of fears that the details would leak and the mission could be compromised, according to one lawmaker present.

Separately, Panetta offered the same view to Time magazine in an interview. “It was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission. They might alert the targets,” Panetta told Time.

The administration has said previously that it did not inform Pakistan of its plans, but Panetta’s comments reveal the depth of skepticism about the reliability of Pakistan’s government and intelligence services.

The remarks also call into question whether the U.S. and Pakistan will be able to cooperate on counterterrorism efforts going forward.

Members in both parties have raised doubts about the reliability of Pakistan, which has received billions in U.S. aid since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

After being briefed by Panetta, Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he was incensed that bin Laden could have been in a compound just miles from a Pakistani military installation without detection, possibly for years.

King said he had told Pakistan’s chief of mission, an official stationed at the embassy, that “this was a real crossroad” and that “it’s very hard to believe that some element of the Pakistani government, whether it’s military or intelligence, were not aware of this.”

A lawmaker who left the Senate briefing said Pakistan has a “lot of explaining to do” given the large compound where bin Laden was found.

“How could they not know about it?” the lawmaker said. “Either they’re incompetent or in cahoots.”

U.S. officials have long worried about ties between Pakistan's intelligence community and the Taliban, which governed Afghanistan and offered shelter to al Qaeda and bin Laden when the Sept. 11 attacks were hatched.

Yet the U.S. must also work with Pakistan, a Muslim country of nearly 200 million people and a nuclear power. U.S. troops in Afghanistan are fighting an enemy that frequently crosses the border with Pakistan to reload or escape.

Pakistan also has a rivalry with India, another nuclear power with a rising role in world affairs.

Panetta on Tuesday said the U.S. depends on cooperation with Pakistan in the war on terror.

“The reality is that we continue to confront our enemy in their country,” he said in an interview with NBC. “We conduct operations against that enemy and their country. They have provided cooperation with regards to that effort to go after those terrorists.

“At the same time, obviously, there — there are questions. And there are complications that we have to work through with the Pakistanis.”

Panetta said he hoped the U.S. could continue to work with Pakistan, “because the reality is that in that part of the world, we have to have Pakistan’s cooperation in dealing not just with the issue of terrorism in their country, but dealing with the issue of how we find peace in Afghanistan.”

Lawmakers departing Panetta’s briefings said officials from the Pentagon and intelligence services offered details on the timeline that led to the killing of bin Laden, but did not show a photo of the slain terrorist and did not discuss the cache of data that U.S. commandos reportedly took from the compound where bin Laden had lived.

Panetta told Time that U.S. forces recovered an “impressive amount” of material from bin Laden's compound and that he established a task force to act on any intelligence found in the haul. Television footage from the compound appeared to show that U.S. forces had dismantled computer hard drives in bin Laden's residence.

Pakistan officials say they have cooperated with U.S. anti-terrorism missions, and that intelligence work by their government helped lead the U.S. to bin Laden. In an op-ed Tuesday in The Washington Post, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari wrote that "a decade of cooperation" between the two countries led to bin Laden's death.

Relations between Pakistan and the U.S. have been tense due to attacks carried out by the U.S. in Pakistan. Tensions also flared when an embassy worker, who said he was the victim of an attempted robbery, killed two Pakistanis earlier this year. In Pakistan, there were claims that the worker was a spy.

Some lawmakers, however, said that despite tensions over bin Laden, they believed U.S. cooperation with Pakistan on anti-terror efforts would not suffer in the long term.

"We recognize that this relationship has been strained,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (Conn.). “But nonetheless, we also recognize its strategic importance and the need for us to work together.”

Alexander Bolton contributed to this story.

*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

©

COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Additional Related News:

  1. Panetta: Bin Laden death photo to be released
    CIA director Leon Panetta tells NBC News that a photo proving the death of Osama binLaden "would be presented to the public," but the White House quickly responds that no decision has been made.
    MSNBC - May 03 01:59am
  2. CIA chief: Waterboarding aided bin Laden raid
    Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leaderOsama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta tells NBC News.
    MSNBC - May 03 04:31pm
  3. CIA director Leon Panetta feared Pakistan 'might alert' bin Laden of raid
    CIA boss Leon Panetta said he feared that Pakistan could have undermined the operation involving Osama bin Laden by leaking word to the terror lord, according to a bombshell interview. Months before Panetta ordered General William McRaven, the head of the Joint Special Forces Command, to undertake the mission last...
    New York Post - May 03 08:47am

  4. Leon Panetta, Osama Bin … - News Images

    6 News Images
  5. Panetta: Obama didn't see shooting of bin Laden
    CIA Director Leon Panetta is giving details about the operation that killed al-Qaida leaderOsama bin Laden.
    WKYT Lexington - 35 minutes ago
  6. Bin Laden operation burnishes Panetta's CIA role
    At age 72, Monterey native Leon Panetta has done what seemed impossible even a year ago: revive the reputation of the Central Intelligence Agency by killing terrorist mastermindOsama bin Laden. President Obama had told...
    San Francisco Chronicle - May 03 05:17am
  7. CIA Director Expects Bin Laden Death Photos Release
    CIA Director Leon Panetta said this evening he believes the photos documenting Osamabin Laden's death should and will be released, but both the CIA and White House say a decision has not been made.
    ABC News - May 03 04:33pm
  8. Panetta: Death photo will be released
    LANGLEY, Va., May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panettasaid Tuesday a photograph establishing the death of Osama bin Laden "will be presented to the public."
    UPI - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
  9. CIA Chief Panetta: Obama Made 'Gutsy' Decision on Bin Laden Raid
    Listen to the Audio JIM LEHRER: And to our interview with CIA Director Leon Panetta. He was at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Va., when I spoke with him earlier today. Director Panetta, welcome. When did you become certain that Osama bin Laden was actually in that compound in Pakistan ? LEON PANETTA, CIA director : Well, the problem was we were never really certain about whether or not ...
    The Online NewsHour - May 03 03:03pm
  10. CIA says release of Osama bin Laden's photo likely
    CIA Director Leon Panetta said Tuesday he thinks a photograph of Osama bin Laden's body will be released at some point, but that it is up to the White House to make the final call.
    CNN - 52 minutes ago
  11. Osama Bin Laden death photos will be released, says CIA boss
    CIA boss Leon Panetta said Tuesday night that the Osama Bin Ladendeath photos - which the White House labeled "gruesome" - will be released.
    New York Daily News - 2 hours, 56 minutes ago

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , ,

DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Gilani For Enhanced Pak-France Defence Cooperation

DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Gilani For Enhanced Pak-France Defence Cooperation
(NSI News Source Info) PARIS, France - May 3, 2011:
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said enhanced defence cooperation and sharing of intelligence with France were vital to counter the threat of extremism and terrorism and for lasting world peace.
Gilani said this while talking to French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet, who called on him. Hours after his arrival in the French capital, the prime minister said Pakistan attached greater importance to its ties with France, and termed it a reliable and dependable friend. France has been a supplier of military hardware to Pakistan and hence the Pakistan Air Force possessed the largest worldwide fleet of Mirages III and V. Pakistan Navy is also using three Agosta 90 class submarines, that are also undergoing upgradation with the French cooperation. The two countries are also in talks to augment their defence ties. France had offered military assistance to Pakistan to strengthen its capabilities to fight terrorism and both the sides are in talks for the provision of French military hardware, including helicopters and ammunition to Pakistan. Talking to the French defence minister, Prime Minister Gilani said modern defence equipment could help Pakistan in the ongoing military operation against extremists and terrorists. app
Pakistan Related News;
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

©

COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , ,

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated May 3, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated May 3, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - May 3, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued May 3, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

ARMY

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded on April 28 an $84,599,548 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the conversion of seven aircraft to the Colombian Ministry of Defense to include publications and aircraft warranty. Work will be performed in Stratford, Conn., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2014. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Army Contracting Center, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (DAAH23-02-C-0006).

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Ellicott City, Md., was awarded on May 2 a $49,107,559 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the operational support services for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. Work will be performed in Arlington, Va.; Afghanistan; and Iraq, with an estimated completion date of May 10, 2013. Four bids were solicited with three bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W91CRB-08-D-0024).

Global Integrated Security (USA), Inc., Reston, Va., was awarded on April 28 a $42,000,000 option-included contract. The award will provide for the reconstruction security support services throughout Afghanistan in support of the Army Corps of Engineers. Work will be performed in Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 11, 2012. Six bids were solicited with six bids received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District, Winchester, Va., is the contracting activity (W917PM-08-D-0001).

ACI - SCC, Wilmington, Del., was awarded on May 2 a $33,000,000 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The award will provide for the property repair, maintenance, minor construction and asbestos removal abatement. Work will be performed in southern Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of April 18, 2012. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 18 bids received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineering District, Kabul, Afghanistan, is the contracting activity (W5J9JE-10-D-0024).

ADS, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., was awarded on April 28 a $21,253,335 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of 136,350 personal armor systems for ground troop helmets for Afghanistan. Work will be performed in Virginia Beach, Va., and Hebron, Ohio, with an estimated completion date of March 1, 2012. The bid was solicited through the Federal Business Opportunities website, with three bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W91CRB-11-C-0111).

ARAO-FELLGROUP, JV, New York, N.Y., was awarded on May 2 an $18,572,391 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the construction of the Afghan National Army, Regional Hospital. Work will be performed in Laghman Province, Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 30, 2013. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 17 bids received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kabul, Afghanistan, is the contracting activity (W5J9JE-11-C-0095).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Linthicum Heights, Md., was awarded on April 29 a $16,732,693 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of vehicle intercom communication, vehicle testing, ten percent spares, and a contractor-provided field service representative for the Saudi Arabian National Guard. Work will be performed in Linthicum Heights, Md., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 31, 2013. One sole-source bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W15P7T-11-C-H609).

Alatec, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., was awarded on April 28 a $13,480,400 firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort contract. The award will provide for the personnel expertise, analysis skills, studies, modeling, simulation and information technology services for White Sands Missile Range. Work will be performed in White Sands Missile Range, N.M., with an estimated completion date of May 2, 2012. Four bids were solicited with four bids received. The U.S. Army Mission & Installation Contracting Command, White Sands Missile Range, N.M., is the contracting activity (W91QF4-07-D-0004).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Hawthorne Services, Inc., Charleston, S.C., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum $12,547,360 for fuel services for the operation, maintenance, security and safety of government aviation fuel at government-owned, contractor-operated facilities, and contractor-owned, contractor-operated facilities. Other location of performance is Kentucky. Using service is Army. The date of performance completion is April 30, 2031. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-11-C-5103).

Rohrer Brothers, Inc.*, Sacramento, Calif., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $8,058,704 for fresh fruit and vegetables support for northern California and north west Nevada. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and U.S. Department of Agriculture. The date of performance completion is Oct. 3, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM300-11-D-P089).

NAVY

Communications and Power Industries, Palo Alto, Calif., is being awarded a $7,920,954 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for traveling wave tubes and associated data. The $7,920,954 is the total dollar amount if the maximum quantities are ordered. The traveling wave tubes are high powered amplifiers for the Ship Missile Decoy Launching System, MK-53 (NULKA). This contract combines purchases for the Navy (94 percent); and the government of Canada (6 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Palo Alto, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2016. Contract funds for the first delivery order in the amount of $387,660 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-11-D-GR97).

*Small business

*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

©

COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

DTN News - BATTLE FOR LIBYA: Libyan Rebels Gather Support In Benghazi To Fight Pro-Gaddafi Forces

DTN News - BATTLE FOR LIBYA: Libyan Rebels Gather Support In Benghazi To Fight Pro-Gaddafi Forces
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 3, 2011: The besieged Libyan rebel city of Misrata was relatively calm Tuesday but braced for new attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces as an ultimatum to surrender expired, a day after shelling killed 14 people.
Libyan rebels wave their rifles during a rally in the eastern city of Benghazi on May 3, 2011 as hundreds of demonstrators including tribal elders rallied at Benghazi's Revolution Square to show their support for the rebel fighting pro-Moamer Kadhafi forces. (Photo - Getty Images)
However, fighting continued in the Al-Ghiran and Zawiat al-Mahjub areas near the airport, which rebels have been trying to capture from Gadhafi forces based there.
In their eastern stronghold of Benghazi, the rebels warned that they would soon run out of funds unless Western governments make them a $3 billion loan secured on frozen Gadhafi regime assets.
NATO said aircraft under its command carried out 158 sorties on Monday, 56 of them strikes against ground targets, which had included 12 ammunition caches and three self-propelled artillery pieces around Misrata.
Loyalist tanks had thrust into the western suburbs of the oil-rich North African nation's third city from their airport base, triggering clashes that wounded more than 30 people.

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources POTD

*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News

*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

©

COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: Osama Bin Laden Death ~ Pakistan Has Questions To Answer, Says David Cameron

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: Osama Bin Laden Death ~ Pakistan Has Questions To Answer, Says David Cameron
**Pakistan admits Bin Laden intelligence failure - BBC News
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 3, 2011:

He said of course there are lots of questions about the support systems bin Laden had in Pakistan.

The Prime Minister, who last year said that the country faced both ways on terrorism, said “everyone including the government” in Pakistan would need to explain how the world’s most wanted man came to be living with his family in a compound near an army base.

It came as Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president insisted his country had not harboured the terrorist. Instead he said Pakistan had helped America and the west over many years with intelligence that could have played an important role in Bin Laden’s killing.

But Mr Cameron said: “There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.”

The Prime Minister will today update MPs about the killing of bin Laden. He will address the Commons at 3.30pm.

However, the Prime Minister, careful to avoid causing offence in Pakistan weeks after he visited Islamabad to mend fences with the country, went on to say that he would continue to work closely with the “political leadership” of Pakistan in tackling terror.

Mr Cameron also did not rule out the possibility that the death of bin Laden could hasten the return of British troops from Afghanistan.

He told the BBC: “I don’t want British troops there any longer than one moment they need to be.”

He urged the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan to take this opportunity to break from al-Qaeda, denounce terror, acknowledge the constitution of Afghanistan and work for a peaceful solution in the war-torn country.

Last night the Government's Cobra emergencies committee met to be briefed the group on the details of the US operation and reiterated his praise for the professionalism of the American special forces team.

Earlier in the day Mr Cameron spoke by telephone with Mr Zadari and prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

"The Prime Minister made clear in the conversations that Britain would continue to work extremely closely with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to tackle the terrorist threat from al Qaida and from the Taliban," a No 10 spokesman said.

"The Prime Minister also underlined the importance of effective co-operation between Afghanistan and Pakistan against terrorism and extremism."

Mr Cameron said Britain must remain vigilant against potential reprisals following the killing of bin Laden.

In a televised reaction from his official country residence Chequers that bin Laden's death would be "welcomed right across our country".

"Of course, it does not mark the end of the threat we face from extremist terror. Indeed, we will have to be particularly vigilant in the weeks ahead. But it is, I believe, a massive step forward," he said.

British embassies have been asked to review their security measures, but the formal threat level at home was unchanged.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he expected heightened vigilance at posts abroad for "some time to come".

"There may be parts of al-Qaeda that will try to show that they are still in business in the coming weeks as indeed some of them are," Hague said.

The Foreign Office advised Britons overseas to avoid large crowds and public events, and Defence Secretary Liam Fox said he had directed his department to "maintain a high level of vigilance in all UK defence facilities at home and abroad".

Britain remains at its second-highest threat level of severe, meaning a militant attack is considered highly likely.

*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

©

COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)