Washington: Senior Pakistani leadership knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding at a compound in Abbottabad but the US has not been able to get any proof of it so far, Hillary Clinton, the then secretary of state, has said.
Ms Clinton, was the top adviser to President Barack Obama on the decision to kill Al-Qaeda leader and world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011.
In an interview broadcast yesterday on CNN, the 68-year-old Democratic presidential frontrunner said it was "just too much of a coincidence... that unusual-looking house would be built in that community near the military academy, surrounded by retired military professionals even though we could not prove it.
"There was never any evidence that we could uncover, that led directly to the top of the Pakistani military and intelligence service. I believe Pakistanis knew," she said.
CNN said Ms Clinton will have to evaluate what is needed to continue the fight against al-Qaeda should she take the White House.
But Mr Obama's aides stressed that the next commander-in-chief will for sure need a blend of the fine-grained intelligence work and surgical force that defined the lethal 2011 strike against Al-Qaeda's mastermind, it said.
The US Navy Seals' raid killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 at his compound in Abbottabad town near Pakistan army's elite training school.
Osama bin Laden was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the group that claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Ms Clinton, was the top adviser to President Barack Obama on the decision to kill Al-Qaeda leader and world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011.
In an interview broadcast yesterday on CNN, the 68-year-old Democratic presidential frontrunner said it was "just too much of a coincidence... that unusual-looking house would be built in that community near the military academy, surrounded by retired military professionals even though we could not prove it.
CNN said Ms Clinton will have to evaluate what is needed to continue the fight against al-Qaeda should she take the White House.
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The US Navy Seals' raid killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 at his compound in Abbottabad town near Pakistan army's elite training school.
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