The Pakistani town of Abbottabad seems to have been the perfect place to “ hide in plain sight .” Not only did officers at the Pakistani military academy there apparently miss spotting Osama bin Laden so did a team of U.S. Special Forces trainers that, according to Pakistani officials, was based there from September to December 2008. The “Where’s Waldo?” aspect of the hunt for bin Laden — who turns out to have been living since 2005 just a few hours’ drive north of Islamabad — has worsened the mistrust between America and Pakistan. Pakistani anger over the unilateral U.S. attack is indicated by the fact that someone just “outed” the CIA station chief in Islamabad for the second time in a year. Read full article > >

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Did Pakistan know bin Laden was ‘hiding in plain sight’?

News outlets in Pakistan have made public the name of an American they identified as the CIA station chief, but a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Monday the person named is not the station chief.

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Pakistan official denies CIA leak

U.S. officials said Monday that Pakistan’s intelligence service leaked the name of the CIA station chief, as the country reels from worldwide criticism about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. U.S. officials acknowledged they had no proof behind…

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U.S.: Pakistan Leaked CIA Names

Tensions with Pakistan are continuing to rise as the Pakistani media has published what it says is the name of the CIA station chief in Islamabad-although, according to the Associated Press, it

An official from Pakistan’s powerful spy agency angrily denied revealing the identity of the C.I.A.’s station chief in Islamabad on Saturday.

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Pakistan Denies Revealing U.S. Spy’s Identity

The CIA’s top spy in Pakistan has to go home after having his cover blown wide open. The CIA station chief, who runs the Predator drone program and works closely with Pakistan’s intelligence service, was named in a lawsuit accusing him of killing…

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CIA Pulls Chief Spy from Pakistan