WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday ridiculed as "bizarre" a U.S. report that senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA attack on a home along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
"There is no evidence, as of half an hour ago, that there were any other people there," Aziz said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
"The area does see movement of people from across the border. But we have not found one body or one shred of evidence that these people were there."
U.S. counterterrorism officials have said they believe the January 13 attack killed four to eight al Qaeda-affiliated "foreigners" attending a dinner meeting. Knowledgeable sources have said that their bodies were removed from the scene by comrades and buried elsewhere.
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have taken to the streets in cities nationwide to express outrage about the attack, which killed more than a dozen civilians, including women and children.
Pakistani officials originally put the death toll at 18 civilians; Aziz cited 13 deaths Sunday.
Wrong intelligence? No al-Qaeda? Bodies were removed from the scene?
The spin for GWB's killing spree is getting weaker and weaker. One day, the American people will wake up from their terror stupor and realize just how much unnecessary killing goes on under this administration's watch. Unfortunately, I have a feeling it will be too late for the American people when they do.
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