Roughly 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, the Pakistani equivalent of West Point, is where they finally found him. Thanks to a massive intelligence operation, members of the Navy SEALs’ elite Team 6 entered a mansion-cum-fortress in the middle of a suburb populated by retired military officers and killed Osama bin Laden. That the notorious terrorist leader was found in Pakistan hardly came as a surprise to anyone with a minimum knowledge of bin Laden and his terrorist network al Qaeda. Most thought he was in Quetta or Karachi, and certainly not a place like Abbottabad, but Pakistan . . .
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C. Christine Fair, Georgetown professor and one of the leading experts on South Asian security, has a very good article up on Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel about the sale of F-16 to Pakistan (this is particularly interesting to me, as I wrote my thesis on U.S.-Afghan relations in 1988-92). As Fair notes, the sale fell through when the first Bush administration refused to certify that Pakistan wasn’t pursuing nuclear weapons, which then triggered the Pressler amendment and froze U.S. aid and weapons sales to Pakistan. What infuriated the Pakistanis the most was that they had paid, at least in . . . |
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