U.S. security services spent several months monitoring the Pakistani house where Osama bin Laden was killed before launching of the world’s number one terrorist, Osama bin Laden, Pakistani GEO TV said on Friday.
The al Qaeda leader was killed in an operation conducted by U.S. special forces on a compound in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on May 2.
The TV channel said that the CIA identified bin Laden’s hideout in August 2010 and set up surveillance in the neighboring house.
The New York Times said U.S. agents used satellite-based radar to search for possible escape tunnels and sensitive eavesdropping devices to pick up voices from inside the house and to intercept telephone calls.
Bin Laden’s elimination sparked a row inside the Pakistani security forces. The country’s leadership has ordered an investigation to determine how the world’s most infamous terrorist was able to live within the country unnoticed. Islamabad has dismissed the allegations about being aware of bin Laden’s whereabouts.
NEW DELHI, May 6 (RIA Novosti)