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Pakistan / Bin Laden / The Wives / A Discussion #993636

CNN Evening News for Thursday, May 12, 2011
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(Studio: Anderson Cooper) Breaking news on the facts about US access to the wives of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden††'s wives featured. [Pakistani ambassador to US Husain HAQQANI†- says the US government will make it clear about the issue of access to the wives as the US and Pakistan will continue to share intelligence.]

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN consultant Fran Townsend about news about bin Laden's wives. [TOWNSEND - outlines what she has heard about American intelligence access to the three wives in the presence of Pakistani intelligence, the hostile demeanor of the wives, what the ambassador said/did not say about the facts.]

(Studio: Anderson Cooper; Islamabad: Reza Sayah) The issue of whether bin Laden had a support network in Pakistan, the balancing act for the nation of Pakistan in actions inside the country while seeming to cooperate with the US, Pakistan's denial he had a support network inside the government security establishment discussed.

(Studio: Anderson Cooper; Washington: Barbara Starr) Bin Laden's fixation on another mass attack on the US as evidenced from his diary and the question of how effective he was in controlling Al Qaeda discussed.

Reporter(s):
Cooper, Anderson;
Sayah, Reza;
Starr, Barbara
Duration:
00:10:00

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