Panetta Credits Pakistani Doctor in Bin Laden Raid
By MARK MAZZETTI
NYT
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has confirmed publicly for the first time that an imprisoned doctor in Pakistan was working with the C.I.A. to gain access to Osama bin Laden’s compound in the months before American troops killed Bin Laden last May.
Mr. Panetta, in an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” to be broadcast Sunday, also said he believed that some officials in Pakistan knew that Bin Laden was hiding in the sprawling Abbottabad compound that was encircled with walls 18 feet high. CBS released excerpts from the interview on Saturday.
“It was the largest compound in the area,” Mr. Panetta said. “So, you would have thought that somebody would have asked the question, ‘What the hell’s going on there?’ ”
Mr. Panetta said that his beliefs were based on a hunch rather than any hard evidence, and American officials have said privately that the cache of electronic files seized at Bin Laden’s compound contain no proof that Pakistani authorities were protecting Bin Laden.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has confirmed publicly for the first time that an imprisoned doctor in Pakistan was working with the C.I.A. to gain access to Osama bin Laden’s compound in the months before American troops killed Bin Laden last May.
Mr. Panetta, in an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” to be broadcast Sunday, also said he believed that some officials in Pakistan knew that Bin Laden was hiding in the sprawling Abbottabad compound that was encircled with walls 18 feet high. CBS released excerpts from the interview on Saturday.
“It was the largest compound in the area,” Mr. Panetta said. “So, you would have thought that somebody would have asked the question, ‘What the hell’s going on there?’ ”
Mr. Panetta said that his beliefs were based on a hunch rather than any hard evidence, and American officials have said privately that the cache of electronic files seized at Bin Laden’s compound contain no proof that Pakistani authorities were protecting Bin Laden.
(More here.)
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