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   >> 34 past the hour. welcome back to " morning joe ." pakistan is on the defensive again today. the front page headlines of all four english language papers in the country are quoting the government as saying the whole world is to blame for not finding osama bin laden sooner. nbc news' ann curry reports from the site of bin laden 's compound.

   >> reporter: amid the images emerging from inside osama bin laden 's hideout, a yemeni passport apparently belonging to obama's fifth and youngest wife, now being questioned in pakistani custody along with at least one other woman and six children and claims about what they're telling authorities have begun circulating, challenging the u.s. version of events. a senior pakistani security official told nbc news bin laden 's daughter witnessed her father's shooting and saying her father was captured and held before he was killed, which a cia source tells nbc news is quote completely wrong.

   >> our intelligences are working together with the cia.

   >> reporter: in paris, pakistan 's prime minister insisted the failure to find bin laden sooner was not pakistan 's fault alone, saying instead of the blame game , we need positive messaging, but pakistan 's former national security advisor told nbc news pakistan 's intelligence was quote caught with its pants down.

   >> u.s. forces came in, raided the place, took him out and we didn't know about it. that's embarrassing.

   >> reporter: how could pakistan not find someone right in front of them?

   >> i think you've hit the nail on the head. right in front of them. he was in a location where i think that our intelligence least suspected.

   >> reporter: do you expect the world to believe that the intelligence services , the security services of pakistan are so incompetent that they did not know that osama bin laden was living 35 miles from islamabad?

   >> this is a small town. they can make slips. they did make a slip.

   >> reporter: pakistani security has also questioned the compound's builder. still, in spite of all the evidence, people here simply don't believe osama bin laden was ever inside this compound.

   >> that was ann curry reporting from abbottabad, pakistan . it can't be, not that it was perfect, convoluted, confusing but now it's in plain sight to the american public, it is a very difficult, if not strange relationship and we may be the fools here, in terms of where he was hiding, no?

   >> it's a difficult relationship. i don't have any doubt and most americans don't have any doubt the isi had some connection at least atin laden. on the other hand, we can't really sever our connections, they have dozens of nuclear warhead and economy in mess and without out aid the economy is in collapse and we don't want a collapsing country with dozens of nuclear warheads . we need them and they need united states . someone at isi says they must have a department of hedged bets playing both sides against the middle and have to find a way to live with that.

   >> harold.

   >> i agree with professor carter. some people around the globe ask us at times about our own security and our own intelligence. you had no terrorist in the united states learning not to take off but how to fly planes and not land them. we had some suggestions maybe those people should have been investigated years ago. we allowed obama to get on a plane in europe when his father went to an embassy and said i think my son might be finding company with people who are known terrorists and allowed him to get on a plane and come to the united states . there can be questions about us as well, this is huge, we're saying he's in pakistan , sitting in a neighborhood living in the biggest building in the upper eastside and we didn't know, this is the equivalent of that. we have to be careful, this is an important ally for a lot of reasons and hopefully the pakistani investigation will uncover what happened. i will with hold judgment until they finish.

   >> harold ford jr . and stephen carter , thank you very much.

   >> harold stengel takes us on the new issue of the death of bin laden . we'll be right back. hawsawi.

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