Bin Laden Mission Underscores Murky History of U.S. Raids in Pakistan | Talking Points Memo

by Marian Wang, ProPublica

The nighttime attack on Osama Bin Laden’s compound by the elite Joint Special Operations Command isn’t the first time U.S. troops have entered Pakistan for covert raids. In the past, such incidents have drawn protests from the Pakistani government, though it has a history of condemning in public actions that it has endorsed in private.


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