Pakistan alerted the US to its suspicions about a compound where Osama bin Laden was found hiding as far back as 2009, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on Wednesday.
Bashir also hit out at “disquieting” comments by CIA Director Leon Panetta that US officials had ruled out informing Islamabad in advance about Sunday’s US raid on the compound in Abbottabad which led to the Al Qaeda chief’s death.
Asked in a BBC radio interview about the compound where the Al Qaeda chief was discovered, Bashir said, “This particular location was pointed out by our intelligence quite some time ago to the US intelligence.”
“Of course they have a much more sophisticated equipment to evaluate and to assess,” he said. “We had indicated this compound as far back as 2009 as a possible place,” Bashir said.
