US had inside info of Osama's hideout: Malik

Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik believes the US had a mole right inside Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout and this was how the al Qaeda chief was tracked down to the compound, a media report said.

Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik believes the US had a mole right inside Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout and this was how the al Qaeda chief was tracked down to the compound, a media report said. Top US officials said after the raid that they were only partially certain of Osama's presence inside the $1 million mansion, but Malik says only definitive information could have led them right to the room where bin Laden was killed, report in The Sunday Times.

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"In my experience of years as an intelligence officer, I think someone from inside may have given information," said Malik, also the former head of Federal Investigation Agency.