On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the CIA told president Barack Obama they had the best lead in years to find the mastermind, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. They had tracked a high-level Al Qaeda courier to a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and believed it could take them to bin Laden. It turned out he was living there. Former CIA director John Brennan, then Obama s chief counterterrorism advisor, told AFP about what he called the “most intense, secretive, and well-planned” operation of his career: the high risk Special Forces raid on May 1, 2011 that killed Bin Laden. The CIA cautioned that its intelligence needed corroboration, yet there was excitement.
Ex CIA Chief Brennan On Getting Bin Laden: High Doubts, High Risk By Paul HANDLEY
04/26/21 AT 10:25 PM
On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the CIA told president Barack Obama they had the best lead in years to find the mastermind, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
They had tracked a high-level Al Qaeda courier to a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and believed it could take them to bin Laden. It turned out he was living there.
Former CIA director John Brennan, then Obama s chief counterterrorism advisor, told AFP about what he called the most intense, secretive, and well-planned operation of his career: the high risk Special Forces raid on May 1, 2011 that killed Bin Laden.
Ex CIA chief Brennan on getting Bin Laden: high doubts, high risk
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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the CIA told president Barack Obama they had the best lead in years to find the mastermind, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
They had tracked a high-level Al Qaeda courier to a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and believed it could take them to bin Laden. It turned out he was living there.
Former CIA director John Brennan, then Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor, told AFP about what he called the “most intense, secretive, and well-planned” operation of his career: the high risk Special Forces raid on May 1, 2011 that killed Bin Laden.
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