Pakistan arrests Osama bin Laden informants

Relations between Pakistan and the United States are at an all-time low following Islamabad’s arrest of five cia informants who led to the capture of Osama bin Laden last month.

According to the New York Times, the detained include a “Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the weeks before the raid.”

This move by Pakistan highlights the disastrous shift of loyalties away from the United States and toward the radical Islamist camp that has been underway ever since the U.S. failed to support a key ally in the war on terrorism, Pervez Musharraf, three years ago.

At the time, editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote, “American leaders are telling Musharraf to take off his military uniform and give real freedom to that country. However, the military is the only institution that gives stability to that extremely divided country!”

Three years later and with Musharraf gone, Pakistan is now “not only not cooperating with the American war on terror, but is actually fighting against it,” according to Arutz Sheva.

Continue to watch as Pakistan swings further away from the U.S. As Brad Macdonald stated in his March 3 column:

Keep a close eye on Pakistan, especially amid the unrest sweeping the Muslim world. Geographically, Pakistan is on the periphery and may seem somewhat distanced from the Muslim uprisings occurring in North Africa and the Middle East. But politically and ideologically, Pakistan’s unstable, strife-ridden, Western-friendly, moderate government—which, given a choice, would curb Islam’s influence inside Pakistan—is outweighed and outnumbered by the radical Islamists. Beyond the susceptibility of its government, Pakistan is home to organized, well-established Islamic terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda and the Taliban.