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The CIA has marked the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by live-tweeting with a five-year delay the raid by US special forces on the Al-Qaeda founder’s compound in Pakistan.
Five years after U.S. Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama admitted the ideology of terror had not been defeated.
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh makes several bombshell assertions in a 10,000-word story about the 2011 Navy Seal raid that killed al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.Among the key assertions: a former Pakistani intelligence officer offered information on bin Laden’s whereabouts to the CIA station chief in Islamabad in exchange for a US$25 million reward posted by the US.According to the official version of events, US intelligence learned of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts by tracking his courier to his Abbottabad compound.Hersh also writes that the ISI, Pakistan’s version of the CIA, had captured bin Laden in Hindu Kush mountains in 2006 and kept him prisoner at the Abbottabad compound.The report also says Pakistani and US intelligence had agreed to concoct a cover story to explain bin Laden’s death. They would tell the world one week after the raid that bin Laden was killed in a drone strike on the Afghanistan side of the border, to be confirmed by DNA evidence.Hersh also claims Navy Seals threw parts of bin Laden’s body from a helicopter as it flew over the Hindu Kush mountains.
US President Barack Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan on Monday. There, he met troops, signed a deal with the government and marked the first anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. During a televised address from Bagram Air Force Base, he outlined his strategy to wind down the increasingly unpopular war. But he's already facing criticism for using the trip - and bin Laden's death - as a political ploy and stepping stone for his re-election bid.
Marc Perelman speaks to Graham Allison. He is the author of an inside account of how Barack Obama took the decision to send US Special Forces into Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden, exactly one year ago. The piece was published in Time Magazine, and is drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with top officials.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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