Bin Laden had "support network" in Pakistan, says Obama

Osama bin Laden had a "support network" in PakistanBut it is unclear whether the Pakistani government was involved, said the president of United StatesBarack Obama, in his first comments on the issue.
The fact that the terror leader appeared in Abbottabad, which houses a military academy equivalent to West Point and Sandhurst, located only two hours drive north of Islamabad, was received with incredulity.
"We believe there was any support network for bin Laden inside Pakistan," Obama said the program "60 Minutes" CBS television network, according to excerpts of the interview released Sunday. "But we do not know who or what was the support network. We do not know if there was any person within the government, people from outside government, and that's something we have to investigate and, more importantly, the Pakistani government must investigate" Obama said.
The Pakistani government has promised an investigation, but denied accusations that extremists like bin Laden, are receiving support from the country.
"They indicated that they have a deep interest in finding out what kind of media networks could have had Bin Laden," the U.S. president. "But these are issues that we are not able to respond in three or four days after the event. It will take time for us to exploit the intelligence that we can meet on site," Obama said, referring to the complex where the terrorist leader was killed.
Since the attack carried out in the early hours of last Monday that killed bin Laden, U.S. lawmakers urged outraged that billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Pakistan were reduced or withdrawn altogether.
The Obama said last year that would give other assistance to U.S. $ 2 billion to the Pakistani Army, and civilian aid package of $ 7.5 billion over five years, approved in 2009, aiming to weaken the allure of extremist Islamists.
For a decade, Islamabad has been wary of an ally United States the war in AfghanistanDespite widespread public opposition and militant attacks with nuclear weapons around the country that have killed thousands of people.
Pakistan has never had the full confidence of Kabul and Washington, which accuses the Pakistani army to promote the Afghan Taliban, created during the resistance to Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Officers of the Pakistani intelligence agency denied that the agency knew that bin Laden was in the complex in Abbottabad, which was invaded in 2003 while still under construction.