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Osama bin Laden was US operator destabilising Benazir: Zardari

Americas, Mon, 11 May 2009 IANS

Washington, May 11 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto's government back in 1989.

 

In fact, as premier Bhutto had 'warned America about Osama bin Laden in 1989 with a call to then US president George H. Bush', Zardari said on NBC's Meet the Press programme Sunday.

 

 

'She rang senior Bush and asked of him: 'Are you destabilizing my government?' because he (apparently referring to bin Laden) paid the then opposition $10 million to overthrow the first woman elected (prime minister) in an Islamic country,' Zardari added.

 

 

'So, we knew that he was your operator,' said Zardari responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts.

 

 

'You'll have been there (in Afghanistan) for eight years. (So) you tell me. You lost him in Tora Bora, I didn't, I was in prison,' he countered when asked where bin Laden was before hurling the allegation at Washington.

 

 

Asked if Pakistan was actively looking for bin Laden, Zardari replied: 'The world is looking for him and we are part of the world look-out brigade.'

 

 

Zardari also reiterated his belief that bin Laden is dead. 'I have a strong feeling and I have reason to believe that because I've asked my counterparts in the American intelligence agencies and they have not heard of him since seven years.'

 


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