The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) said it was embarrassed by its failure to find al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, and that the compound in Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed by US forces on Sunday night had been raided in 2003, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said in a report on Tuesday. An ISI official told a BBC correspondent in Islamabad that the compound in Abbottabad was raided when it was under construction in 2003.
It was believed an al Qaeda operative, Abu Faraj al-Libi, was there, but since then “the compound was not on our radar”. The official gave new details of the raid, saying bin Laden’s young daughter, aged 12 or 13, had said she saw her father get shot, the report stated.
“It is an embarrassment for the ISI,” BBC quoted the official as saying. “We’re good, but we’re not God,” he added.The BBC reported that new and differing accounts of some of the events of Sunday’s raid were revealed by the ISI official, including that there were 17 or 18 people in the compound at the time of the attack, that the Americans took away one person still alive, possibly a bin Laden son, and that those who survived the attack included a wife, a daughter and eight to nine other children, not apparently bin Laden’s, all of whom had their hands tied by the Americans.The official also claimed that the surviving Yemeni wife said they had moved to the compound a few months ago.
According to the BBC, the official said the ISI had recovered some documents from the compound. “We were totally caught by surprise. They were in and out before we could react,” the BBC quoted the official as describing the raid.
Pakistan admits intelligence failure
