Senator Feinstein: Don’t repeat Osama raid
Feinstein praised the Amreican intelligence community for its work in taking out the al-Qaeda leader.
May 22, 2011
WASHINGTON:
Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairperson of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has voiced her opposition to the notion of repeating May 2-like unilateral action against al-Qaeda militants on Pakistani soil, saying the appropriate thing is that Islamabad handle the situation. The key senator told The Hill in an interview that Pakistan should be left to deal with the new leader of al Qaeda if intelligence shows he is there. According to the congressional newspaper, Feinstein, a Democrat from California, said the U.S. “should not repeat the mission” that U.S. forces undertook to kill Osama Bin Laden, in which President Obama ordered a team of Navy SEALs into Abbottabad without notifying the Pakistani government. Feinstein had praised the Amreican intelligence community for its work in taking out the al-Qaeda leader sought since 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2011.
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