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| US, Pak agreed on Osama mission |
| US, Pak agreed on Osama mission in secret deal 10 years ago: Report
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-May-2011
3:11:57 AM |
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In a secret deal struck a decade ago, the US and Pakistan agreed that Washington will carry out a unilateral operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil if he was found there following which Islamabad would vociferously protest the incursion, a media report said today.
The then military leader Gen Pervez Musharraf and then US President George Bush struck the deal after bin Laden escaped US forces in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains in late 2001, the Guardian newspaper reported.
Under the deal, Pakistan would allow US forces to conduct a unilateral raid on its soil in search of bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. Afterwards, both sides agreed, Pakistan would vociferously protest the incursion, the paper quoted serving and retired Pakistani and US officials as saying.
"There was an agreement between Bush and Musharraf that if we knew where Osama was, we were going to come and get him," said a former senior US official familiar with the counter-terrorism operations. "The Pakistanis would put up a hue and cry, but they wouldn't stop us
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