This is the opinion of Sen. Carl Levin (D) of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who is opening a congressional investigation into what the Pakistani government knew regarding bin Laden’s suburban enclave. It was located just down the road from the Pakistani military academy.
“I think at high levels – high levels being the intelligence service – at high levels, they knew it,” Senator Levin told ABC News. “I can’t prove it. I just think it’s counterintuitive not to.”
Pakistan’s top Army official warned that any similar US commando operation in the country would be a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and would harm relations between the two countries. For now, the US military has not been asked to remove any of the “a little under 300” US service members currently in the country, Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told reporters Friday.
“We have not been alerted to any new decisions about the size of our personnel in Pakistan,” he said, adding that “the numbers ebb and flow over time.”
