Pakistan's Bin Laden dossier: no whitewash but a savage piece of self-analysis

[carl]

Omar:

You know the part in the YouTube video where the guy walks into the post while looking at the girl? I've done that.

[davidbfpo]

Circling the Lion's Den has read the Abbottabad Commission report and has picked out a few key passages:http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot....on-report.html and http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot....bbottabad.html

The author, Nick Fielding, remarks:

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the Abbottabad Commission report is one of the most important documents to have come out of Pakistan for many years. It is full of insights into how Pakistan really operates - public officials that appear to know little about their specialist area, numerous examples of gross incompetence, buck-passing and massive corruption. Here are a few more snippets. However, I urge readers to read a copy of the report, even if, by all accounts, the final version was watered down to placate the Army and intelligence services.

My favourite line is a classic - hence the emphasis, it refers to the NWFP civil administration:

...While there can be no excuse for this 'acceptance of realities' by senior officials, it has to be noted that they functioned in a very perverse political and administrative environment in which insistence on the correct performance of duty was often rewarded with severe punishment."