Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert raid by a US Navy SEAL group in Pakistan on Could 2, 2011. (File)
New Delhi:
The US didn’t inform Pakistan about Osama bin Laden’s location resulting from lack of belief and previous experiences of terrorists being tipped off after data was shared with Islamabad, former American defence secretary and ex-CIA chief Leon Panetta has mentioned.
Panetta, in an interview to WION TV, additionally mentioned he finds it “tough to imagine” that there wasn’t any person in Pakistan who was conscious of Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound.
Osama bin Laden, the world’s most needed terrorist and the then al-Qaeda chief, was killed in a covert raid by a US Navy SEAL group at his Abbottabad compound in Pakistan on Could 2, 2011.
“Once we found the placement of this compound in Pakistan, it was situated in a spot referred to as Abbottabad. Abbottabad is a centre for his or her intelligence companies and the Pakistani West Level is situated there as effectively,” Panetta mentioned.
The US army academy is situated in West Level in New York.
This compound was 3 times the dimensions of different compounds, it had 18-foot partitions on one facet and 12-foot partitions on the opposite facet with barbed wire round it, mentioned Panetta, who was the Central Intelligence Company (CIA) director when the raid was carried out.
“I discover it very tough to imagine that there wasn’t any person in Pakistan who was conscious of this compound,” he mentioned.
As soon as the US discovered the compound, it needed to decide whether or not it might share that data with Pakistan and President Barack Obama made the choice on the idea that when data was shared with Pakistan in regards to the location of terrorists, they had been tipped off and immediately had been in a position to disappear, Panetta mentioned.
“Due to that concern and that lack of belief, very frankly, we determined to not inform the Pakistanis in regards to the location of bin Laden and we didn’t inform them in regards to the operation that we performed as a result of we had been involved that if we did that it was possible bin Laden could be suggested to maneuver,” he mentioned.
“So, due to what we did I feel we had been in a position to achieve success within the mission to go after bin Laden,” Panetta mentioned.
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