On Monday, May 2, 2011 at 0745am, President Obama annnounces the death of Osama bin Laden in his late-night speech to his nation. He said:
"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."On Tuesday, May 3 2011, DAWN which is the largest English newspaper in Pakistan, publishes a piece from Reuters about the operation that took place in Abbottabad on May 2nd 2011. The following is an extract from that report:
"'They (Pakistani officials) are expressing as great a surprise as we had when we first learned about this compound, so there is no indication at this point that the people we have talked to were aware of this, but we need to dig deeper into this,' White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan said in an interview with National Public Radio."Rather than addressing his nation at this crucial moment, Asif Ali Zardari (not going to call him President from this day onwards) uses all of his language skills and vocabulary to write an op-ed piece for the Washington Post in which he said:
"He was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be, but now he is gone.
"Although the events of Sunday were not a joint operation, a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama bin Laden as a continuing threat to the civilized world."Furthermore, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani rushed to France for three-day official trip. During his trip, Gilani addressed a gathering of business leaders where he exclaimed:
“Certainly, we have intelligence failure of the rest of the world including the United States. There is intelligence failure of the whole world, not Pakistan alone.”
Spot on! Had I been in that gathering, I would have presented a pair of shoes to Mr. Gilani for a such statement. Maybe the cake got into his head because only a soft-headed person could have said something like this. It seems that Pakistani civil leadership has other things on the mind. The Prime Minister takes a joy ride to France and achieves nothing whereas "the President" does not find the words to talk with his people but finds the time to jot down an opinion column for Washington Post. What this situation leaves the public in confusion.
