President Donald Trump repeated Monday that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, killed by US Navy SEALs in May 2011, should have been captured much earlier, casting blame on his predecessors and Pakistan.<\/b>
\nPresident Donald Trump repeated Monday that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, killed by US Navy SEALs in May 2011, should have been captured much earlier, casting blame on his predecessors and Pakistan.
\u00ab\u00a0Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did,\u00a0\u00bb the US president tweeted, echoing remarks he gave to \u00ab\u00a0Fox News Sunday\u00a0\u00bb that drew the ire of Pakistan, where bin Laden had been hiding.
\u00ab\u00a0I pointed him out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center,\u00a0\u00bb he continued.
\u00ab\u00a0President Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there. Fools!\u00a0\u00bb
Ten years after the September 11,2001 attacks on the United States, bin Laden was found to be hiding in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed in a raid by US Navy SEALs approved by Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama.
The assault sent relations between the wayward allies to a new low.
In his interview on Sunday, the Republican leader had said he canceled assistance worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan earlier this year because \u00ab\u00a0they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us.\u00a0\u00bb
Trump had also told Fox News that bin Laden had lived \u00ab\u00a0beautifully in Pakistan and what I guess in what they considered a nice mansion. I don’t know, I’ve seen nicer.\u00a0\u00bb
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan hit back at Trump’s claim, calling on the president to name an ally that has sacrificed more against militancy.
\u00ab\u00a0Pakistan suffered 75,000 casualties in this war & over $123 bn was lost to economy. US ‘aid’ was a miniscule $20 bn,\u00a0\u00bb Khan tweeted.
And Robert O’Neill, a former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shots that killed bin Laden, was terse in his reply.
\u00ab\u00a0The mission to get bin Laden was bipartisan. We all wanted to get him as soon as we could,\u00a0\u00bb tweeted O’Neill, who regularly appears on Fox News as a security expert.<\/p>\n

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