WASHINGTON/ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) – The United States vowed yesterday to “get to the bottom” of whether Pakistan helped Osama bin Laden elude a long manhunt before he was killed in a U.S. raid, even as Islamabad denied it gave shelter to the al Qaeda leader.
Washington kept Pakistani officials in the dark about the special forces assault carried out on Monday, fearing they might “alert the targets” and jeopardize the mission, which ended with bin Laden’s death, CIA Director Leon Panetta told Time magazine.
The revelation that bin Laden had holed up in a fortified compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, possibly for