In an article titled The Killing of Osama bin Laden, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Seymour Hersh, said Pakistani officials not only knew about the whereabouts of Osama, but they also make it as a prisoner.
In his article as reported by Deutsche Welle, Tuesday (05/12/2015), Hersh said, Pakistani high officials know about US Special Forces military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011, which killed Osama.
Though Pakistan has been insisting that the US acted alone without the knowledge of Pakistan in the military operation. Pakistan also claims that it does not know anything about the whereabouts of Osama. The US government also formally convey the same thing with the Pakistani claim.
However, according to Hersh in this work, since 2006, Osama had been under the control of Pakistan and hidden in Abbottabad.
"The lie most obvious is that the two most senior leaders of the Pakistani military - Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, (former) military chief of staff, and Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, (former) Director General ISI (Pakistani military intelligence agency) - was never told about US mission, "Hersh writes.
"Bin Laden has become a prisoner ISI in Abbottabad since 2006 ... Kayani and Pasha knew since the beginning about the US military operation and has ensured that the two NAVY SEAL helicopters fly to Abbottabad and cross the airspace of Pakistan without arousing suspicion," Hersh wrote in his article.
Hersh said, "most of the information in this article was delivered by retired senior US intelligence official and Pakistani, who knew about the initial information about the presence of Osama in Abbottabad". Hersh mentioned, obtained from the official statement that Pakistan's military intelligence agency, ISI detect the presence of Osama in 2006 by paying local people to betray Osama.
"The CIA did not know the whereabouts of bin Laden with trailing couriers, as claimed by the White House since May 2011, but according a former senior Pakistani intelligence official who secretly betrayed in order to get $ 25 million reward offered by the US.
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