NEW DELHI: Former United States president Barack Obama said that there isno evidence that the Pakistan government was aware of the presence of alQaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
He said this while addressing the 15th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit atHyatt Regency in New Delhi.
“We had no evidence that Pakistani government was aware of Osama binLaden’s presence in Abbottabad,” he said. “We obviously looked at it.”
US Special Forces killed Osama Bin Laden and four others in a covert USraid, on a compound located near the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul inAbbottabad on May 2, 2011. An aide of Osama purchased the land measuringseven kanals in 2004 and a three-story building was constructed over morethan three kanals of the plot in Bilal town.
Ever since the raid took place there was much speculation whether bin Ladenhad Pakistan state support to keep hiding in the compound. However,documents seized from Bin Laden’s compound did not show sufficient evidenceof any probable support from the establishment.