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The REAL enemy: How Pakistan hid Osama Bin Laden from the U.S. and fueled the war in Afghanistan

New York Times reporter makes startling claims that Pakistan has been playing both sides since 9/11
Pullitzer Prize winner, Carlotta Gall worked out of the Times bureau's in Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade
Believes that Pakistan's leadership intentionally hid Osama bin Laden and backed the Taliban against the United States and Britain

By James Nye

Published: 19:56, 14 April 2014 | Updated: 22:39, 14 April 2014

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The United States has been fighting the wrong war against the wrong enemy these past 13-years according to a damning new book - while behind closed doors Pakistan has been laughing in its ally's face.

Pullitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Carlotta Gall claims that not only did Pakistan willfully hide 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden but also sponsored the Taliban insurgency after 2001 that has cost 2,625 American and British lives.

The respected reporter, who spent more than a decade in the region for the newspaper, alleges that Pakistan's leadership have been tricking the United States into treating it as a friend for decades.
Did they know all along? Osama Bin Laden watching himself on TV in his hideout before the dramatic raid that ended with his death in May 2011
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Did they know all along? Osama Bin Laden watching himself on TV in his hideout before the dramatic raid that ended with his death in May 2011

'Pakistan did know,' Gall said to ABC News, speaking about bin Laden�s location.

'They were hiding him, they were handling him. Someone on the inside told me this. They had a special desk that knew where bin Laden was.

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'Not only that, but put him there, protected him, oversaw him, handled him in the terms of the secret intelligence services,' she added.

'And it's all deniable, but I�m told the top bosses knew.'
Terror: Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after it was hit by two hijacjked passenger planes on September 11, 2001 in New York City
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Terror: Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after it was hit by two hijacjked passenger planes on September 11, 2001 in New York City

Friends? President George W. Bush (L) and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharaf pictured in September, 2004 for a private bi-lateral breakfast meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York
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Friends? President George W. Bush (L) and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharaf pictured in September, 2004 for a private bi-lateral breakfast meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York

Gall also makes the allegation that bin Laden's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is most probably being provided with safe haven by Pakistan.

'Our relations with Pakistan have gone back to the same thing, and the thing that concerns me is that Zawahiri is still out there, in Pakistan, I believe,' she said.

'He is also probably being hidden the same way and protected.'

Gall spoke to ABC News about her book, 'The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014' and expanded on her claims of a duplicitous Pakistan.
Conspired: A multiple explosion rocks al-Qaeda positions in the Tora Bora mountains after an attack by US warplanes, 14 December 2001, from which Osama bin Laden allegedly escaped
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Conspired: A multiple explosion rocks al-Qaeda positions in the Tora Bora mountains after an attack by US warplanes, 14 December 2001, from which Osama bin Laden allegedly escaped

'Instead of fighting a very grim and tough war which was very high in casualties on Afghans, as well as NATO and American soldiers, the problem wasn't in the Afghan villages,' Gall said.

'The source of the problem, the radicalization, the sponsoring of the insurgency, was all happening in Pakistan.'

Gall told ABC News that she realized 'very soon' after 9/11 that Pakistan was to blame for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

'I went to Quetta and found Taliban resting up there and regrouping,' she said.
Assistance: Afghan anti-Taliban fighters sits around a Russian T-55 tank while two bombs explodes following an attack by US B-52 bombers on Al Qaeda position in Tora Bora on 10 December 2001
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Assistance: Afghan anti-Taliban fighters sits around a Russian T-55 tank while two bombs explodes following an attack by US B-52 bombers on Al Qaeda position in Tora Bora on 10 December 2001

Pakistani police, media personel and local residents gather outside a burnt compound at the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011
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Pakistani police, media personel and local residents gather outside a burnt compound at the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011

'They had assistance, some of them talked about being forced and threatened and told to go in and fight the Americans � and when you're there, on the ground, seeing every bombing, the suicide bombing had started, the insurgency that grew, and you investigate where it's coming from, it kept leading back to Pakistan.'

According to Gall, Pakistan's leaders, particularly President Pervez Musharraf. were 'very clever' as they hoodwinked successive administrations from Clinton to Bush.

'I think the politicians, not all of them, but the diplomats � it took ages for them to understand that actually the persuasion wasn't working; the engagement wasn't bringing them on board; they were actually double dealing,' she said.

'And now diplomats will tell you very plainly, �Yes, Musharraf was double dealing.'

Yes and what's worse is British aid to Pakistan has probably been funding the Taliban who are fighting us all thanks to no brains Cameron. Time all aid was stopped. Let the region wallow in its own ignorant superstition in fact stop all aid to all countries, i am still waiting for any country to offer aid to us when we had the floods and dont forget even the big charities here would not help our own people.
TIme to send all terrorist religions back to where they came from if not we will be fighting in the streets within 20 years