It is alleged that the Pakistani government had been holding
the 9/11 mastermind in his Abbottabad compound - located in a residential area
known to be vastly populated by military officials - for years.
The CIA learned of his location after a high-ranking
intelligence officer in the country tipped off the US in the hope of claiming a
$25 million bounty, the journalist claims.
In his investigation, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist 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.
Hersh, citing an unnamed source, says that Pakistani
intelligence services cut the power to bin Laden's compound ahead of the raid
to aid the SEAL team in avoiding local military intervention.
There was no firefight, he claims, and the only bullets
fired were those that killed the terror chief.
Barrack Obama concealed the truth about the raid one year
before an election in a bid to boost his administration's popularity, it is
claimed.
The article, published in the London Review of Books, says
that bin Laden was also not buried at sea as previously claimed, and that he
was in fact buried in Afghanistan.
Hersh says that Obama's speech informing the American people about the successful raid was "put together in a rush".
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