Veteran investigative journalist Simon Hersh made the shocking allegations.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist claimed that US PresidentBarack Obama has lied about details of the killing of al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden was actually a prisoner of ISI at the Abbottabad compound since 2006. Whereas the White House had claimed that they had tracked Laden was false
The US got the whereabouts of Bin Laden from a senior Pakistani military official who sold the information for 25 million dollars, and in exchange for being relocated to Washington DC.
Hersh also alleges that the Obama administration negotiated with the Pakistani government and its intelligence officials from the ISI ahead of the raid, but then later claimed it was a secret infiltration mission.
Lieutenant General Asad Durrani, a former chief of Pakistan’s spy agency in the early 1990s, was quoted from an earlier interview saying that it was ‘quite possible’ that Pakistani intelligence had known where bin Laden had been hiding before the raid.
“If you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States,” he was quoted as telling Al Jazeera.
There was no firefight, the report claims, and the only bullets fired were those that killed the terror chief.
The US President Obama concealed the truth about the raid one year before an election in a bid to boost his administration’s status, it is claimed.
Simon said Obama’s speech notifying the Americans about the successful raid was “put together in a rush”.
He added: “This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create chaos in the weeks following.
“[Pakistani troops] were under orders to leave as soon as they heard the rotors of the US helicopters.
“The town was dark: the electricity supply had been cut off on the orders of the ISI hours before the raid began.”
Osama bin Laden was at last assassinated by the US Navy SEALS in an operation codenamed Operation Neptune Spear on May 2, 2011 in the garrison town of Abbottabad in Islamabad.