Highly sensitive intelligence operation of mid night 1st and 2nd May 2011 brought an end to the former CIA agent and leader of Al-Qaida “Osama bin Laden”. Sharp 40 minutes targeted operation successfully culminated on hitting of famous character (Osama) of Global War on Terror (GWOT) who was present in a compound house located in Abbottabad (a hill station north of Islamabad).
According to Obama, the operation was conducted with the assistance of Pakistan and all necessary details of the operation have been shared with his counterpart. He added that all relevant details of the operation have also been tied up and exchanged between the respective military and intelligence set up of both the countries too. In this regard, U.S. Foreign Sectary of State has also acknowledged the support in the conduct of under discussion operation in addition to the sacrifices and co-operation of Pakistani security forces and intelligentsia in GWOT. But at the same time CIA Chief Leon Panetta gave an extremely irresponsible statement and tried to undermine the Pakistani intelligence and security forces capabilities. In this context, he said either Pakistan was involved in hiding Osama or lacked ability to trace al-Qaida leader in Abbottabad. In his first interview since commanding the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, Panetta told to “TIME” that U.S. officials feared that Pakistan could have undermined the operation by leaking word to its targets.
