An American journalist Richard Miniter in his latest book has claimed that a colonel from Pakistain's spy agency had helped the US in providing vital information in locating former Al Qaeda chief, the late Osama bin Laden... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...
, and that Pakistain's army chief may have been briefed on the Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
raid five months in advance.
The book, "Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him" claimed that Pakistain had a greater role in the Abbottabad raid than what the American CIA had earlier stated.
The book alleged that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer had walked into the CIA's Islamabad station in August 2010 and provided vital help in tracing Osama.
"In a never-before-reported account, Pakistain was more involved in the bin Laden operation than Obama's team admitted. When the CIA revealed that an ISI colonel had contacted the CIA in Islamabad and offered information about bin Laden, a debate followed," said the book.
"Was this a secret sign that the head of the ISI himself was pointing out bin Laden's hiding place or was the colonel actually the patriot who hated extremism that he claimed to be? Whatever the motivation, the CIA found bin Laden's hiding place within a month of the colonel's visit," the book claims.
According to the book, as the CIA found the Abbottabad compound where Osama bin Laden lived along with his family members and started researching on the property, they found out that the land was "carved out" from the Pakistain military academy compound.
"The records held another surprise. The land for the bin Laden lair seemed to have been carved out of property owned by the Kakul Military Academy, Pakistain's answer to Sandhurst and West Point," Miniter claimed.
"The bin Laden compound was akin to an isosceles triangle, carved out of the property of the Kakul Military Academy, Pakistain's West Point. The campus's main building sat some eight hundred yards from bin Laden's castle."
"The triangular compound was bordered with concrete walls ranging in height from ten to eighteen feet. The main building, a three-story tower, housed the arch terrorist, his wives, and their children," he wrote.
Bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals inside his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistain in May 2011.
The former news hound with "The Wall Street Journal" and "The Washington Post" wrote in his book that Pakistain army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
may have been briefed by the US on its operation to kill Osama bin Laden in December 2010, some five months in advance and that along with getting a tacit consent, a cover story had been developed with the Pak military.
"There was talk about devising a cover story that would allow Pakistain to be helpful while keeping its leaders from political harm."
"The story, according to an official with secondhand knowledge of the White House discussion, was that bin Laden was killed in a drone strike and that the US later sent in a team to recover the body. That was believed to be less politically harmful than a commando team treading on Pakistain's soil," Miniter says.
"According to this official, Pakistain's Army chief of staff was alerted in December 2010, five months before the operation. No concrete facts about the operation were passed on, but an informal approval was sought," he writes.
The book also claimed that on March 14, 2011 during a situation room meeting that the US President, Barack Obama
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, decided that Pakistain "should be kept in dark" while America made its plans.
"'When the Seal helicopter crashed into bin Laden's compound, the cover story was abandoned,' the official said. The story could not be independently confirmed, but it has the virtue of explaining why the B.O. regime did not press to end military aid to Pakistain when bin Laden was found eight hundred yards from its officer training facility," Miniter wrote.