阿富汗官員:巴基斯坦肯定知道拉登住在巴基斯坦

An Afghan official says Pakistan's intelligence agency must have known that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was hiding in a house close to a Pakistani military academy before U.S. special forces killed him in a raid on Monday.

Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said the location of the house in the military garrison town of Abbottabad would have ensured that Pakistani authorities knew who was living there. Azimi said bin Laden's hideout would have been known not only to a "strong" intelligence agency such as Pakistan's ISI but even to a "very weak government with a weak intelligence service," as he put it. He said the ISI faces many questions that need answers.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said bin Laden's ability to live undetected in the compound, apparently for years, "is an intelligence failure of the whole world, not of Pakistan alone." He made the comment Wednesday during a visit to Paris.

U.S. officials also have demanded answers as to how the al-Qaida leader could have lived at a luxury complex in Abbottabad without the knowledge of Pakistani authorities or help from a support network inside Pakistan. The area around the compound remained sealed off Wednesday by Pakistani police and soldiers.

一名阿富汗官員說，巴基斯坦情報機構在美國特種部隊星期一在突襲中擊斃本.拉登之前，肯定已經知道他藏在巴基斯坦軍事學院附近的一所房子裏。

阿富汗國防部發言人阿茲米星期三在記者會上說，從位於軍事重鎮阿伯塔巴德的拉登住所地點可以肯定，巴基斯坦當局知道誰住在那裏。阿茲米說，不僅巴基斯坦 “強大的”情報機構三軍情報局會知道本.拉登的藏身處， 用他的話說，就是對“一個情報服務很差的非常弱勢的政府而言”，也會知道這一點。他說，三軍情報局有許多問題需要回答。

巴基斯坦總理吉拉尼說，本.拉登看來有能力長年住在一個未被察覺的院落的事實“是整個世界的情報失誤，而不是巴基斯坦一方的問題”。他星期三訪問巴黎期間發表了這一評論。

美國官員也質疑，爲何這位基地組織的領導人可以長年住在阿伯塔巴德的豪華院落裏，而巴基斯坦當局卻毫不知情，還是本.拉登從巴基斯坦內部的支持網絡獲得了幫助。星期三，巴基斯坦警察和士兵仍然封鎖着這個院落所在的地區。巴基斯坦否認爲本.拉登提供了庇護。