News Reports That Make You Wonder What The Truth Actually Is

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The Daily Mail Online Edition is reporting that "Pakistan Air Forces has strictly and categorically rejected the reports that its radars were inactive during entry of American helicopters into Pakistani air space for Operation Geronimo on May 2, 2011."

On May 3, senior security officials stated at a media briefing that the radar systems of the Pakistan Air Force had been jammed by the US forces during the night of Osama Bin Laden's killing. 

The article reports:

"Earlier, the PAF's Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, accepted the responsibility of air surveillance failure in front of some national media, but dispelled the impression that the Pakistani radars had been jammed by Americans.

"Suleman informed the government that the entry of US helicopters into the Pakistani air space was not detected, as the radars deployed on the western borders were inactive on that day.

"Suleman's statement was in direct contrast to what Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir had said during a media briefing in Islamabad on May 5."

Why would you turn the radar off on your borders?  I suspect that this back and forth has to do with the technology of the American helicopters used and the fact that Pakistan is in possession of the tail of one of those helicopters.   The Pakistanis and the Chinese are good friends, and the Chinese are experts at reverse engineering.  This debate could get very interesting.

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