The leader of Al-Qaeda - Osama bin Laden was killed in the early hours of May 2, 2011 in the northwestern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 50 kilometers northeast of the capital Islamabad.
The number one terrorist was the most wanted man in the world after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Bin Laden's most spectacular terrorist actions before those of September 11, 2001.
Date from August 1998, when he simultaneously blew up the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya with car bombs (224 victims).
After the collapse of the World Trade Center, The US is organizing a large-scale manhunt to find the Al-Qaeda leader. They are offering $25 million, then $50 million as a reward for any information leading to his capture.
The special operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden was considered one of Barack Obama's greatest successes during his first presidential term - and contributed significantly to his re-election. According to the official version, on the night of May 2, 2011, American special forces entered the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by helicopter from Afghanistan, where they eliminated the hiding Osama bin Laden, and then threw his body into the Arabian Sea.
Many conspiracy theories have emerged since then, and the famous investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is now making very specific accusations. Hersh, who is a winner of the "Pulitzer" and gained worldwide fame for his revelations about American abuses in Vietnam and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, claims that the American authorities are deliberately hiding the truth about the circumstances surrounding bin Laden's death, wrote “Deutsche Ewe”.
"On the third floor, second door on the right"
"The most shameless lie is that the Pakistani military leadership was not informed about the American mission", writes Seymour Hersh in the London Review of Books. The journalist claims that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the Hindu Kush mountains with his family. But after he was betrayed by a local person, the Pakistani authorities placed him under house arrest near the military academy in Abbottabad. The logical question then arises as to why Pakistan did not inform the US about its "find". According to Seymour Hersh, this was due to the fact that Saudi Arabia had put Pakistan under pressure not to hand over bin Laden to the US services.
But Washington nevertheless learned that bin Laden was in Pakistan. An employee of the Pakistani secret services revealed the location of the top terrorist, in exchange for which he received a cash reward of 25 million dollars. Hersh even claims that the person in question is now working for the CIA. The version spread by the US government is that the secret services revealed bin Laden's location after identifying his trusted aide Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.
On the night of the attack in Abbottabad, there was no firefight, Hersh claims. "With the exception of the shots fired at Osama bin Laden. They (the commandos) knew very well where their target was. "On the third floor, second door on the right," Hersh quotes an anonymous source from the US Special Operations Command. According to Hersh's revelations, when the Americans arrived in Abbottabad, the Pakistani security guards had already been withdrawn from the place where bin Laden was being held under house arrest.
Where is Osama's body?
Seymour Hersh also claims that the US government is not telling the truth about the "burial" of Osama bin Laden. According to the official version, his body was dropped by an American aircraft carrier into the Arabian Sea, "Deutsche Ewe" recalls. According to Seymour Hersh, however, Osama bin Laden's body was dropped from a helicopter over the Hindu Kush mountains.
Hersh's claims caused a sharp reaction in the US. The White House categorically rejected his accusations, and the spokesman for the Presidential Security Council, Edward Price, stated that this mission was purely American. Any other claims were false.