Islamabad, May 9 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that 'no heads will roll' over the failure to detect that Osama bin laden had been living in Abbottabad near the military compound for over seven years prior to his killing by US Special Forces.
Although he admitted that the hiding of Al-Qaeda Chief Bin Laden in Abbottabad was an intelligence failure, he insisted 9/11 was also a result of an intelligence failure, but that did not mean that top military officials should resign.
"I can cite other incidents in the world which were result of agencies failure. That does not mean that those agencies protected terrorists," The News quoted Malik, as saying.
Ruling out the possibility of anyone, either from the political leadership or from the military top brass, stepping down for the "intelligence failure," he asked how many people resigned after 9/11 in the US?
"Who created Bin Laden and sent him to fight Russians? We never invited him to Pakistan. He went there with hundreds of other Arab fighters to wage a jihad against Russian forces, and the world knows who supported them," he added.
However, he said that the death of Osama has strengthened Pakistan's aim to fight terrorism further. (ANI)
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