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Why Won't Pakistan Let the US Talk to Osama's Wives? Mistrust and tensions grow as Pakistan refuses access to the captured Bin Laden family. By Josh Voorhees | Posted Monday, May. 9, 2011, at 9:30 AM EDT <http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/09/bin_laden_wives_u_s_pakistan_clas h_over_access_to_osama_s_family.html?from=rss/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatest#art icle_comment_box> <http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/09/bin_laden_wives_u_s_pakistan_clas h_over_access_to_osama_s_family.html?from=rss/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatest#art icle_comment_box> 23 113843842 In the immediate wake of last week's U.S. raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, many experts began to speculate on <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576298670356934488.h tml> what it would mean for the nation's already-strained relationship with Pakistan. Well, the early returns are in and they suggest things aren't looking so good. President Obama and congressional leaders <http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/08/obama_60_minutes_interview_bin_la den_had_pakistani_support_netwo.html> are wondering aloud whether Pakistan helped Bin Laden stay out of sight. The Pakistani government is bristling <http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/05/pakistan_tries_to_win_back_washin gton_with_lobbying_campaign.html> at such accusations (along with the fact the raid was conducted without its knowledge) and is growing increasingly defiant toward Washington. The mood on the ground in Pakistan, meanwhile, appears to be approaching anti-American, with the raid fueling a long-standing conspiracy theory that the U.S. is ready to conduct a similar special-ops mission to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The latest point of contention between the two nations is over access to three of Bin Laden's wives. The three women were <http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/03/bin_laden_family_pakistan_has_9_o f_osama_s_children_wife_in_cust.html> among 10 or so of the al-Qaida leader's family members taken into custody by Pakistan after the raid that killed Bin Laden. The U.S. is asking for the chance to interrogate the women, believing they may be able to provide crucial information about "the comings and goings of people who were aiding [Bin Laden]," <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/world/asia/09donilon.html?_r=1&hp> the New York Times reported Monday. So far, Pakistan has refused, a move that isn't helping quell speculation in Washington that Bin Laden may have had help from within the Pakistani government. Further threatening U.S.-Pakistan relationships, a Pakistani television channel and a newspaper recently published the name of a man they say is the CIA's station chief in Islamabad, <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576311153848904130.h tml?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories> the Wall Street Journal reports. The move has left some wondering whether the Pakistani government had attempted to out a CIA operative to send a message to Washington. A possible explanation for Pakistan's surprisingly aggressive response to the Bin Laden raid, <http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/fear-that-u-s-can-grab-nucl ear-arsenal-heightens-pakistani-anger-20110509?page=1> theNational Journal reports, is that the special-ops mission has fueled a long-standing belief that the U.S. "would be willing and able to effectively steal the country's nuclear weapons." As the Journal reported Monday: Pakistan is a country consumed by conspiracy theories, mainly having to do with allegations of nefarious plots by Israel, the U.S., and India. . But few of the purported plots have endured as long-or become as widely held across diverse swaths of Pakistani society-as the belief that the U.S. has been secretly preparing to fly commandos into Pakistan one day to seize its nuclear weapons. Pakistan is believed to have as many as 100 nuclear warheads, and the conspiracy theorists believe the U.S. will one day try to take the weapons to prevent them from falling into militant hands or being used against India. UPDATED at 10:35 a.m.: Pakistan's prime minister said Monday that the nation would launch an investigation into how Osama Bin Laden remained undetected for so long but pushed back hard against accusations that Pakistan was either complicit or incompetent. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13330909> BBC reports that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani called such claims "absurd" in a speech to parliament. "We are determined to get to the bottom of how, when and why about OBL's presence in Abbottabad," Gilani said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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