Washington: Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is 'quite likely' in Pakistan, the former Vice Chairman of the September 11, 2001 Commission has said, arguing that Islamabad had done "probably not enough" to help the US in fighting terrorism.
Asked to comment on al-Qaeda's existence in Pakistan and if the country is becoming an area that is allowing the terror outfit to flourish, Lee Hamilton said, "Well, of course. I think it's quite likely that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan."
"We have a very different kind of relationship with Pakistan. I think al-Qaeda is much more decentralised than perhaps many people think, and I think what's really happening here is the radicalisation of the Muslim world," Hamilton said in an interview on Meet the Press.
"And it's not Osama bin Laden and his cohorts pulling the strings with regard to subway bombings in Madrid and London and now this plot on the airlines, but rather it's a highly decentralized operation.
They prey upon these Muslims
who are without jobs, who are angry at the West for all kinds of reasons, who don't like our way of life" he said.
"If you're really going to make the American people safe, it's not just a question of taking different procedures on airplanes, it is dealing with the fundamental problem of the radicalization of Muslims in the world today," Hamilton added.
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