Senior journalist speaks of ‘political game’ behind Bin Laden story
Symour Hersh answers Press TV’s questions after release of his controversial article on assassination of Osama bin Laden.
On Tuesday, the senior investigative journalist spoke of the “political game” behind the assassination of the former al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan.
At the center of his claims stands the idea that the US cooperated with Islamabad for the operation, one contradicting with Washington’s official narrative of the event, alleging it was carried out all by US forces and with no knowledge of the Pakistani government.
The op was launched following a tip from someone inside Pakistan who finally “claimed the reward and got it”, Hersh said, adding that Pakistanis “enormously” helped with it.
He further named a number of Pakistani officials who had helped bring about the assassination, adding, “with their help” the US could make sure the target was really Bin Laden.
“I’m sure the person who walked in got some money then; he’s been relocated to America.”
Talking about reactions to his article inside the US, Hersh said the Americans are still “confused” given the long report and that Washington has done “a pretty good job of muddying the water”.
In the article published on the London Review of Books on Sunday, Hersh wrote that high-level lying “remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command, and cutting out those who might say no.”
The report claims that Pakistani military officers helped US helicopters enter the country and that a Pakistani security official led the American troops directly to bin Laden without any resistance from guards.
Washington announced on May 2, 2011 that bin Laden was killed in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by US special forces and CIA operatives. He was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization that allegedly claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
The September 11 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attacks, were a series of strikes in the US which killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.
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