Why We Need to Take Sy Hersh’s bin Laden Bombshell Seriously

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55. R.J. Hillhouse in 2011: ''The story of how bin Laden was found is fiction''

Peter Gelling
Global Post on Aug 9, 2011

The whole story of how Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding out in Abottabad, Pakistan — recreated in incredible detail in The New Yorker — was made up, according to R.J. Hillhouse, a prominent security analyst and author.

According to Hillhouse, who attributes the news to her sources inside the intelligence comunity, a Pakistan intelligence officer came forward with the information of bin Laden's whereabouts in exchange for the $25 million reward and U.S. citizenship for his family. The informant, Hillhouse says, claimed that the Saudis had been paying the Pakistani military and intelligence agency, ISI, to shelter bin Laden under house arrest.

"The C.I.A. and friends then set about proving that OBL was indeed there," Hillhouse writes. "And they did."

Hillhouse says that the United States then approached Pakistan, which agreed to cooperate on the raid. A cover story that bin Laden was killed in a drone attack was designed but had to be scrapped at the last minute when that lone Black Hawk spun to the ground. A new story, of a courier, was used in its place.

"The cooperation was why there were no troops in Abottabad," she writes. "It had always seemed very far-fetched to me that a helicopter could crash and later destroyed in an area with such high military concentration without the Pakistanis noticing."

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Thank you, Maedhros! Important to know there is an incredible amount more to the story than has been reported. Gosh, if we keep learning stuff, we might want to have one of them democracies people used to talk about before 9-11.