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Donald Rumsfeld: Its Possible The Pakistanis Didnt Know Bin Laden Was There
by Alex Alvarez | 2:03 pm, May 8th, 2011
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Face the Nation today and was asked what he made of the possibility that Pakistani authorities did not know Osama bin Laden had been hiding in their country, basically in plain sight within a massive compound dwarfing nearby homes.
Its totally possible, Rumsfeld told host Bob Schieffer, and its not far-fetched to think that even gated communities in the U.S. could hold many unsavory secrets:
I think it is possible. And I dont know whether they knew, and I think we ought to be asking the questions that youre asking and that Senator Kerry is asking. However, if you go from the Pentagon up the Potomac River and look at those biggest estates up there with gated walls and trees and hidden from sight, we dont know whats going on there. And it is possible that someone like that with a support system Al Qaeda support system in my view, very likely could hide in plain sight.
That said, he added, its not as if we shouldnt still be asking how or why the Pakistani government didnt have bin Ladens whereabouts on its radar.
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