Pakistan: U.S. Intelligence Used in Attack on Terror Training Facility
KHAR, Pakistan — Pakistan admitted Tuesday that the military used intelligence from U.S.-led coalition forces in a helicopter attack that left 80 people dead, but that U.S. forces did not participate in the operation on what was described as an Al Qaeda-linked training camp.
"Intelligence sharing was definitely there, but to say they (the coalition) have carried out the operation, that is absolutely wrong," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the chief army spokesman, said.
Sultan's clarification came after ABC News reported that a U.S. Predator drone fired into the compound after intelligence pointed to the possibility that Al Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri was present at the location.
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Another Pakistani official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Zawahiri and the terror leader behind the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners had frequented the religious school in Chingai village, but were not there when the attack was carried out.
The official did not say when Zawahiri or Abu Ubaidah al-Masri, the Egyptian who allegedly heads Al Qaeda's operations in eastern Afghanistan, had last visited the school.
Thousands of angry tribesmen decried both governments over the killings Tuesday.
Sultan said his government received intelligence as part of long-standing cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan to battle terrorists operating along the porous border between the countries.
In Kabul, Col. Tom Collins, a U.S. military spokesman, said it is common knowledge that the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan share intelligence as part of a three-way military agreement. But he said he had no information regarding the recent operation in Pakistan.
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