Bin Laden was ISI prisoner, betrayed for $25 mn: US journo

Bin Laden was ISI prisoner, betrayed for $25 mn: US journo
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Osama bin Laden was a prisoner of the ISI in the garrison town of Abbottabad and a former Pakistani intelligence official gave away his location to the US in return for most of a $25 million reward, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has said in an article that challenges the Obama administration\'s narrative of the killing of the Al Qaeda chief.

New Delhi: Osama bin Laden was a prisoner of the ISI in the garrison town of Abbottabad and a former Pakistani intelligence official gave away his location to the US in return for most of a $25 million reward, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has said in an article that challenges the Obama administration's narrative of the killing of the Al Qaeda chief.


The White House's contention that the May 2011 mission that resulted in the death of bin Laden was an all-American affair and that senior generals of the Pakistan Army and ISI agency were not told of the raid in advance is "false", Hersh has written in a lengthy article published in the London Review of Books.

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