Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI, has said it is embarrassed by its failures on al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. An ISI official told the BBC the compound in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed by US forces on Sunday had been raided in 2003. But the compound "was not on our radar" since then, the official said. The ISI official said that the compound in Abbottabad, just 62 miles from the capital, was raided when under construction in 2003. It was believed an al-Qaeda operative, Abu Faraj al-Libi, was there. But since then, "the compound was not on our radar, it is an embarrassment for the ISI", the official said. "We're good, but we're not God". The compound is just a few hundred metres from the Pakistan Military Academy -- the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst.
Pakistan Admits Bin Laden Intelligence Failure
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