By Ravi Perera
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Recently reading though some international reports I came across a description of the extreme high pressure atmosphere at the highest decision making levels of the US administration just prior to the commando raid on Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Only a very few in the administration were aware of the intelligence which pointed to the largish compound near a Pakistani military complex as the probable hiding place of the most wanted terrorist in the world. The US had been combing that region of the world for him for nearly ten years. Getting Bin Laden would be an invaluable breakthrough for the US government.
The fact is that until the American commandoes burst in to the upstair bedroom where Bin laden was hiding, they weren’t certain who their quarry was. Between August 2010 and April 2011 more than 40 intelligence reviews were carried out on the Abbottabad compound.
The fact is that until the American commandoes burst in to the upstair bedroom where Bin laden was hiding, they weren’t certain who their quarry was. Between August 2010 and April 2011 more than 40 intelligence reviews were carried out on the Abbottabad compound.
