ISLAMABAD: The Abbottabad Commission of Pakistan was convinced that US Special Forces enjoyed the support of a ground network as they undertook their risky raid inside Pakistani territory.
“There were in all possibility fairly extensive networks,” the commission said in its findings as it assumed that there could be one CIA network for locating him, while the other ascertained his presence at the location.
It said the presence of CIA spies for tracking Osama bin Laden prior to 2005 was well-known and it was surprising that ISI stopped the manhunt thinking that the Americans had discontinued the hunt thinking that he had died. Following a decline in ISI-CIA cooperation because of troubled ties, the commission believed that there was a mass influx of CIA spies, most of them under the garb of NGO workers and with help from unsuspecting locals who supported them. Internews
