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Osama bin Laden was ISI prisoner, betrayed for $25 mn: US journo

Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
May 12, 2015 01:45 AM IST

The White House's contention that the May 2011 mission that resulted in the death of bin Laden was an all-American affair and that senior generals of the Pakistan Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency were not told of the raid in advance is "false", Hersh has written in a lengthy article published in the London Review of Bo

Osama bin Laden was a prisoner of the ISI in the garrison town of Abbottabad and a former Pakistani intelligence official gave away his location to the US in return for most of a $25 million reward, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has said in an article that challenges the Obama administration's narrative of the killing of the Al Qaeda chief.

The White House's contention that the May 2011 mission that resulted in the death of bin Laden was an all-American affair and that senior generals of the Pakistan Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency were not told of the raid in advance is "false", Hersh has written in a lengthy article in a statement on Monday morning saying it has “too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to fact check each one”.

National Security spokesman Ned Price rejected a claim in the report that the US cooperated with Pakistan on the raid, saying that “the notion that the operation that killed Usama Bin Ladin was anything but a unilateral U.S. mission is patently false."

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