How Did the CIA Find bin Laden? A Phone Call, a Courier, and Years of Detective Work
- Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:08pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world’s most wanted terrorist.
That phone call, recounted Monday by a U.S. official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden’s personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier, in turn, led U.S. intelligence to a walled compound in northeast Pakistan, where a team of Navy SEALs shot bin Laden to death.
The violent final minutes were the culmination of years of intelligence work. Inside the CIA team hunting bin Laden, it always was clear that bin Laden’s vulnerability was his couriers. He was too smart to let al-Qaida foot soldiers, or even his senior commanders, know his hideout. But if he wanted to get his messages out, somebody had to carry them, someone bin Laden trusted with his life.
In a secret CIA prison in Eastern Europe years ago, al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, gave authorities the nicknames of several of bin Laden’s couriers, four former U.S. intelligence officials said. Those names were among thousands of leads the CIA was pursuing.
One man became a particular interest for the agency when another detainee, Abu Faraj al-Libi, told interrogators that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed as al-Qaida’s operational leader he received the word through a courier. Only bin Laden would have given al-Libi that promotion, CIA officials believed.
If they could find that courier, they’d find bin Laden.
The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA’s so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.
“We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day,” said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt for bin Laden.
Mohammed did not reveal the names while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He identified them many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic.
It took years of work for intelligence agencies to identify the courier’s real name, which officials are not disclosing. When they did identify him, he was nowhere to be found. The CIA‘s sources didn’t know where he was hiding. Bin Laden was famously insistent that no phones or computers be used near him, so the eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency kept coming up cold.
Then in the middle of last year, the courier had a telephone conversation with someone who was being monitored by U.S. intelligence, according to an American official, who like others interviewed for this story spoke only on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation. The courier was located somewhere away from bin Laden’s hideout when he had the discussion, but it was enough to help intelligence officials locate and watch him.
In August 2010, the courier unknowingly led authorities to a compound in the northeast Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where al-Libi had once lived. The walls surrounding the property were as high as 18 feet and topped with barbed wire. Intelligence officials had known about the house for years, but they always suspected that bin Laden would be surrounded by heavily armed security guards. Nobody patrolled the compound in Abbottabad.
In fact, nobody came or went. And no telephone or Internet lines ran from the compound. The CIA soon believed that bin Laden was hiding in plain sight, in a hideout especially built to go unnoticed. But since bin Laden never traveled and nobody could get onto the compound without passing through two security gates, there was no way to be sure.
Despite that uncertainty, intelligence officials realized this could represent the best chance ever to get to bin Laden. They decided not to share the information with anyone, including staunch counterterrorism allies such as Britain, Canada and Australia.
By mid-February, the officials were convinced a “high-value target” was hiding in the compound. President Barack Obama wanted to take action.
They were confident and their confidence was growing: ‘This is different. This intelligence case is different. What we see in this compound is different than anything we’ve ever seen before,’” John Brennan, the president’s top counterterrorism adviser, said Monday. “I was confident that we had the basis to take action.”
Options were limited. The compound was in a residential neighborhood in a sovereign country. If Obama ordered an airstrike and bin Laden was not in the compound, it would be a huge diplomatic problem. Even if Obama was right, obliterating the compound might make it nearly impossible to confirm bin Laden’s death.
Said Brennan: “The president had to evaluate the strength of that information, and then made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.”
Obama tapped two dozen members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six to carry out a raid with surgical accuracy.
Before dawn Monday morning, a pair of helicopters left Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. The choppers entered Pakistani airspace using sophisticated technology intended to evade that country’s radar systems, a U.S. official said.
Officially, it was a kill-or-capture mission, since the U.S. doesn’t kill unarmed people trying to surrender. But it was clear from the beginning that whoever was behind those walls had no intention of surrendering, two U.S. officials said.
The helicopters lowered into the compound, dropping the SEALs behind the walls. No shots were fired, but shortly after the team hit the ground, one of the helicopters came crashing down and rolled onto its side for reasons the government has yet to explain. None of the SEALs was injured, however, and the mission continued uninterrupted.
With the CIA and White House monitoring the situation in real time – presumably by live satellite feed or video carried by the SEALs – the team stormed the compound.
Thanks to sophisticated satellite monitoring, U.S. forces knew they‘d likely find bin Laden’s family on the second and third floors of one of the buildings on the property, officials said. The SEALs secured the rest of the property first, then proceeded to the room where bin Laden was hiding. In the ensuing firefight, Brennan said, bin Laden used a woman as a human shield.
The SEALs killed bin Laden with a bullet to the head. Using the call sign for his visual identification, one of the soldiers communicated that “Geronimo” had been killed in action, according to a U.S. official.
Bin Laden’s body was immediately identifiable, but the U.S. also conducted DNA testing that identified him with near 100 percent certainty, senior administration officials said. Photo analysis by the CIA, confirmation on site by a woman believed to be bin Laden’s wife, and matching physical features such as bin Laden’s height all helped confirm the identification. At the White House, there was no doubt.
“I think the accomplishment that very brave personnel from the United States government were able to realize yesterday is a defining moment in the war against al-Qaida, the war on terrorism, by decapitating the head of the snake known as al-Qaida,” Brennan said.
U.S. forces searched the compound and flew away with documents, hard drives and DVDs that could provide valuable intelligence about al-Qaida, a U.S. official said. The entire operation took about 40 minutes, officials said.
Bin Laden’s body was flown to the USS Carl Vinson in the North Arabian sea, a senior defense official said. There, aboard a U.S. warship, officials conducted a traditional Islamic burial ritual. Bin Laden’s body was washed and placed in a white sheet. He was placed in a weighted bag that, after religious remarks by a military officer, was slipped into the sea about 2 a.m. EDT Monday.
Said the president: “I think we can all agree this is a good day for America.”
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mingfurecon
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 11:16pmGod Bless The Navy Seals and all the special ops. Those boys saved obamas rear. Maybe someday we’ll have a real commander and chief
Report Post »Chasvs391
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:47pmAnd it All started with the Waterboarding of KSM! Go figure!!!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:47pmSEE, that little bit of water boarding paid off! Thank GOD closing Gitmo was one of BO’s BROKEN PROMISES! :)
Report Post »Truth_Radical
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:08pmI wanna see the death certificate!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:50pmYou and Cindy Sheehan.. the darling of the liberal left when they wanted to IMPEACH Bush? haha Now she criticizes Obama and she’s just a nut!
Report Post »donh2
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:48pmOBL WANTED to be found and butchered by the “Zionist Powers” . This is how he destroys Israel. Don’t you see ? ..The shape of OBL’s compound is a miniature map of Israel . The room where he was killed corresponds to Jerusalem on the Israeli map. . It is a spiritual effigy much like a voodoo doll. What happens to the effigy will in spirit happen to the host object it represents. The blood shed inside the master’s chamber will now be shed in the very heart of Israel. Our leaders know the athame stabbed into OBL will provoke jihad attacks on Israel of unprecedented scale. It was timed when all the old leaders of the middle east are too weak to stop an armageddon attack on Israel, and the US is too broke to get involved. Butchering OBL in a very public humiliating way is the path by which the invisible hand of the illuminati cult achieves the final destruction of Israel . Glenn is right that we should not be playing into the Devil’s hands by celebrating.
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:47pmAnd some much needed waterboarding. Reinstate the waterboarding. It works every time. At least it would on me. And it did on someone else. Lotus.
Report Post »KnightWriter
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:33pmOne of the main things I don’t like about the left is that they never admit when they are obviously wrong.
Report Post »There has always been a prevailing thought in the country that being American transcends American politics, but I didn’t believe that. I didn’t believe Slick Willy, and although I was 5 when Carter left office he has stayed visible enough for me to get a bad vibe from him as well. I definitely did not believe in Obama and whether or not he was motivated by responsibility or just knowing it would be extremely popular to bag OBL I don’t care. It needed to be done.
I was wrong about him on this and I’m happy to admit it, so let him crow while we dine on some of the same, it will not save him in 2012 but today the devil has earned his due.
I SPY
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:19pmObama nor Biden had anything to do with. That we know for sure.
Report Post »Vie_En_Ras
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:05pmWould have been fine not knowing exactly which body of water they put him in. Actually it would have been better not knowing to avoid the whole ‘shrine’ ordeal.
Report Post »koibaby
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:01pmGary Brooks Faulkner?
Report Post »moelarrycurly
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:55pmAm I the only one who has a bad feeling about how all of this came about? I am skeptical-I’m no conspiracy theorist-but a few things really strike me as ‘funny’…News is broke on the anniversery of the GWB ‘Mission accomplished speech’…The details, photos, tapes or other ‘proof” are consicuous in their absence. Saddam’s photos, video of medical exam were on Arab TV within hours. And the ‘evidence’ was buried at sea…And as a bonus to the administration-the news was broke during the last 5 minutes of ‘The Apprentice’…Maybe its my suspicious nature and the fact that I don’t trust the government. And it could be that these people are withholding ‘proof’ or info just to create some kind of hype like the whole birth certificate thing…Still-my instincts tell me this is the Kansas City Shuffle….Keep an eye out for what the other hand is doing…
Report Post »moelarrycurly
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:04pmer…conspicuous…the ‘p’ is a little sticky here-sorry…
Report Post »tweigel
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:42pmGod Bless our troops and thank you. Thank you president Obama, even though I don’t agree with almost any of your policies, but you did great here by authorizing the removal of a cancer. This was a great day as a mass murderer of our people was brought to a swift justice and none of our own were even injured.
Report Post »rafeeboy
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:30pmThe so much criticized water boarding did the work once again. It produced the courier. Are you convinced the Democrats can be dangerous to US national security?
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:29pmWhat a great story……God bless America!
Report Post »tess q
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:28pmthe fact that it took so many years from the time the name of the courier was first learned and then the discovery of bin laden shows how truly difficult and long this war on terror is going to be. this has been a reality check.
Report Post »Family_Guy
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:28pmKarl Rove didn’t do it, Cheney and Rumsfeld couldn’t pull it off; the most talented and loud politicians like Sarah and Newt and John and Mitch had 9 years to get it done. Rich loudmouths like Glenn, Sean, and Rush were all talk. Magnificent managers like Trump didn’t do it – couldn’t tell us where he was.
So, are you telling me it was luck and laziness that got bin Laden in the first 900 days of the Obama Administration? Or, you think maybe it’s a hoax? (Maybe there never was a 9-11?)
The credit goes to the US Government and the great intelligence and law enforcement networks they established across the world. Military, Civilian, elected. union.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:50pmWhere’s the “change”?
Obama uses the same seal as the last president. No?
Oh, ….these SEALs were different?
>must be the “6”
Report Post »dumbblond
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 6:53amAre you really as stupid as you sound?
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:27pmhttp://www.infowars.com/intel-chief-they-killed-make-believe-obama/
Report Post »wesinLR
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:22pmwater boarding works
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:36pmAmen!
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:22pmBin Ladin been dead.
Obama Been Lying.
Report Post »Earningit
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:22pmSo glad hes gone. This ones for you President Bush!
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:09amYes, it seems finally that President Bush will be vindicated, but don’t look for the liberal media to give him any credit. Koodos to Obama who does not deserve it, but reaped the benefit of Bush’s policies.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:20pmWell, that’s funny – didn’t get the info through water boarding? Just saw on BillO from his guest Peter King, who said the necessary info about the courier was gotten from water boarding. ????? I believe him over the other “officials”….obviously Obama Admin. doesn’t want it to get out about that. Hmmm…..what else might come out? Can’t believe Obama is that “courageous” & leading this decision to go in after bin Laden….maybe forced?
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:20pmWow, years of intelligence work. Does that mean Bush will get a slice of the credit???
Rhetorical question, no need to respond.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:18pmStop it.
Just stop lying already.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:33pmPlease, SINISTA, regale us all with The Truth.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:39pm:SINISTAPUNK, here, let me make it easier for you to share The Truth with us. Complete the following: Osama (Usama) bin Laden Died in __/_____ as result of ________________________________________. His responsibility in the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks on America was __________________________________________________________________________________.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:55pm@Sinista MACE
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:49pm
***Troll Alert***
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10-22 last transmission.
False alarm.
MODEL82A1 is not a troll.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:57pmAs we all already knew, SINISTA has ZERO proof for his ridiculous conspiracy theories. No surprises here that his reaction is Mock-Indignation, attempted intimidation and name calling.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:02pmWOW
Showtime, do you think YOU have any credibility to authenticate this troll?
Just because I made you apologize numerous times?
Keep it real with yourself.
You can lie to me all you want, but keep it real with yourself. Don‘t come on here frontin’.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:04pmYou know , Showtime, I’ve been onto you for a while now.
Whenever one of these trolls pop up with their disinformationist garbage, you always pop up with your pom-poms out, cheerleading.
You’re just an agent provocatuer.
Apologize to me. Now.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:15pmOsama (Usama) bin Laden (AKA CIA ASSET TIM OSMAN) Died AT LEAST 9 YEARS AGO as result of KIDNEY FAILURE. His responsibility in the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks on America was A PATSY FALLGUY FOR A FALSE FLAG TERROR ATTACK CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:46pmBin Laden was NEVER charged with the 9/11/01 attacks I verified this thru the FBI most wanted list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/red-alert-government-had-osama-bin-laden-frozen-for-years/
the truth is there But you have to being willing to look at it.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:13amThe Blaze really doesn’t want me to post that article from prisonplanet.
In April 2002, over nine years ago, Council on Foreign Relations member Steve R. Pieczenik, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker, told the Alex Jones Show that Bin Laden had already been “dead for months”.
Report Post »Family_Guy
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:15pmGovernment workers at their finest, the indefatigable CIA and 17 other US Intelligence partners, supported by bipartisan Congressional and Administration sponsors, working for years and years.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:11pmThey used Obama’s network of commie connections
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:13pmI guess this gives a whole new meaning to “reach out and touch someone”….can you hear me now?
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:17pmYou mean it wasn’t Obama who personally hunted down Bin Laden? You’d think it was, the way he’s been patting himself on the back. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/05/after-bin-laden-should-republicans-be.html
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:17pmSo KSM cooperated. Maybe Ramzi bin Alshib and Abu Zubaydah cooperated too.
Report Post »Sooooo….will these 3 get a presidential pardon now ?
OneRepublic4us
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:21pmThanks for condensing that for me!
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:21pmSure obama has asked allah for forgivness, am I. Yeesssssss.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:26pmI‘m waiting for Adam Gadahan’s video now ;-)
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:30pmWhy now? Why did Obama wait until now? The moon has a pattern of being just right for many years. Why wait for 2012 Re-elect campaign in conjunction with Birth Certificate?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:31pm@cheezwhiz
Report Post »Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:26pm
I‘m waiting for Adam Gadahan’s video now ;-)
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Will this one do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMP7Ys57ha4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Redd
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:37pmThe white house is releasing a photo of Osama Bin Laden going down the slide, in adobe layers. The photo is authenticated by a Hawaiian registrar.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:44pm@Redd
Report Post »Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:37pm
The white house is releasing a photo of Osama Bin Laden going down the slide, in adobe layers. The photo is authenticated by a Hawaiian registrar.
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ROFLMAO!
Local Registrar U. Kulele?
kryptonite
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:45pmThere’s some spin being put out by the WH, as per usual. When the libs went after Bush for waterboarding, several members of the CIA stated unequivocally that KSM had provided crucial info, but only after being waterboarded. Obviously, they didn’t say what, but one can assume this was one such piece of info.
I don’t care if they are now being ordered to state the opposite. The CIA has been held hostage by that traitor since he took over. He loathes the CIA so much that he actually stripped them of their duty and right to interrogate terrorists captured on foreign soil.
This victory would never have materialized if it had been up to Hussein all these years. We need to be a little bit more grateful to Bush. Mistakes and all, he loves America and our military. That traitor had strict political motives for going in for the kill. Now we will have to listen to his daily boasts till dictatorship come (full circle in 2012). sigh.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:50pmI heard tonight on O’Reilly it was a terrorist who was waterboarded overseas … see WATERBOARDING WORKS!
Report Post »Hawt'n'secksie
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 8:54pmBwahaha, years of detective work?? If by years you mean “no one was working on this till 2009 when Obama was inaugurated,” then that’s more like it.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:13pmActually, he had taken a student loan out years ago and defaulted. Those guys will find you if you don’t pay your loan.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:17pmHe was frozen in a meat locker in hanger 18
Report Post »chiefparker
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:28pmThey back tracked his mail. Don’t mess with the Postal Service
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:32pm“Sophisticated technology used to evade the country’s radar system” Which genius decided that it was o.k. to disclose that info to the world? When will they keep their big mouths shut!!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:28pmIs it just me, or is there any other news we might want to know, 167 threads on Bin Laden, really?
Report Post »Just saying.
jeffyfreezone
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:34pmIn Mark Theissen’s book Courting Disaster, he describes how enhanced interrogation produced the kind of intelligence that led to this Osama kill. Obama is opposed the to the VERY techniques that produced this victorious strike against Al Queada.
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:18am@ Sinista MACE
Osama (Usama) bin Laden (AKA CIA ASSET TIM OSMAN) Died AT LEAST 9 YEARS AGO as result of KIDNEY FAILURE. His responsibility in the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks on America was A PATSY FALLGUY FOR A FALSE FLAG TERROR ATTACK CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
You’re nuts.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:01am……..
Report Post »So you’re saying Bush should get some credit?
Don’t wait for the MSM whores to say anything good.
decendentof56
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:20amObama will milk this for all its worth. Everyone who has watched him campaign for 2012 since he was elected knows that truth. Intelligence and the military were responsible for OBL’s death, not Obama. Think about it. When intelligence and high-ranking military officials come to you and say “we have absolute info of where OBL is”, Obama had to act.
Report Post »Do you think he would ever have any respect from our armed-forces if he didn’t?