Report: German spy agency gave US information on Osama bin Laden whereabouts

[jakeXT]

Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) provided the United States with information as to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, before he was killed in May 2011 by US special forces in Pakistan, the "Bild am Sonntag" newspaper reported on Sunday.

It said the BND told the CIA that bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan with the knowledge of Pakistani security authorities - information it received from an informant within the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

This knowledge is said to have confirmed CIA suspicions. The newspaper reported that the BND provided help before the operation that killed bin Laden, using its base in the Bavarian town of Bad Aibling to monitor telephone and email traffic in northern Pakistan.

Asad Munir, a former ISI head in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told DW the Pakistani government should release a report on bin Laden's death "So the people may know the facts and motives about Osama bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad."

http://www.dw.de/report-german-spy-agency-gave-us-information-on-osama-bin-laden-whereabouts/a-18454653

[itsrobert]

1. So Zero Dark Thirty was a lie?

I thought so.

[jakeXT]

2. Layers of an onion

On one hand, the official story has always been incredible. Who can actually believe that Bin Laden would be living in the Pakistani West Point, 20 minutes from a major USA-Pakistani dark site used to train the guardians of the local nuclear repository; and that nobody in the armed forces and/or ISI would know? And, further, who can believe that two Blackhawks could penetrate Pakistani air space, conduct a raid in such a location, and escape with no Pakistani interference;

…unless there were, as Hersh alleges, massive and effective collaboration with Pakistani military and/or ISI personnel?

So the official story is implausible; and, when you stop to think about it, so is the lack of a video — anywhere — of the purported burial at sea. (Why wasn’t that, at least, shown to calm Islamic anxieties about the propriety of his burial? Pretty simple thing to pull off; and it’s hard not to believe that the U.S. Navy doesn’t routinely record events of that nature.) Other inconsistencies and discrepancies are also plausible, lending an air of credence to Hersh’s story.

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/05/14/the-bin-laden-murder-mystery/

[whereisjustice]

3. Lies protecting lies. Every day Hersh is looking more credible.