Leaked Report Cites Pakistan’s Failings Before U.S. Killed Bin Laden

By DECLAN WALSH, NYT

LONDON — Osama bin Laden lived unmolested in Pakistan for almost a decade because of the “collective incompetence and negligence” of the country’s security forces, according to a scathing Pakistani government report that was leaked to the news media on Monday.

The four-member Abbottabad Commission, led by a Supreme Court judge, interviewed 201 people, including the country’s intelligence leaders, in an effort to piece together the events around the American raid on May 2, 2011, that killed Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, and embarrassed the Pakistani government.

But although the commission’s report was completed six months ago, the Pakistani authorities suppressed it, and the first leaked copy was made public by Al Jazeera on Monday.

The broadcaster published the 336-page report on its Web site, while acknowledging that there was one omission — a page of testimony from a Pakistani spy chief that appeared to describe elements of Pakistan’s security cooperation with the United States.

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