The head of the Pentagon revealed the identity of the person who “passed” bin Laden
The location of Osama bin Laden - “terrorist number one” - was provided by a Pakistani doctor who worked for the US secret service during an operation to eliminate it, Pentagon chief Leon Penetta said during an interview with CBS News.In the "60 Minutes" program, the Pentagon chief reported that Dr. Shikal Afridi, a citizen of Pakistan, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and during the vaccination program, collected DNA samples, trying to locate bin Laden. Later Pakistani security officials accused Afridi of espionage, reports RIA "News".
“I’m concerned about what the Pakistanis did to the man who provided invaluable assistance in providing the intelligence data necessary for this operation,” Panetta said. According to the head of the Pentagon, the actions of the authorities of Pakistan in relation to Dr. Afridi are erroneous. The doctor is not a traitor, since both Pakistan and the United States have fought against terrorism, and he has provided assistance.
Al-Qaida’s leader, Osama bin Laden, was destroyed on 2 May 2011. The “Number One Terrorist” was located in a fortified house in Abbotabad, near Islamabad. The body of the terrorist was buried in the sea. Pakistani authorities expressed outrage at the unauthorized US military operation on the territory of a foreign state.
The head of the US defense department suggested that probably someone from the Pakistani authorities knew about the location of bin Laden. The house in which the terrorist had recently been hiding and over which Pakistani helicopters regularly appeared, was fenced off. Leon Panetta suggested that if the United States had warned the Pakistani authorities about the upcoming operation, bin Laden could have warned: “I don’t have any irrefutable evidence, so I can’t confirm it. However, I believe that someone is somewhere , knew about it. "
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