Guard: A policeman keeps guard outside the gates of the compound where the Al Qaeda leader was killed. Photo From The Daily MailCIA Spied On Bin Laden From Safe House -- Washington Post
The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Operations forces this week, U.S. officials said.
The secret CIA facility was used as a base of operations for one of the most delicate human intelligence gathering missions in recent CIA history, one that relied on Pakistani informants and other sources to help assemble a “pattern of life” portrait of the occupants and daily activities at the fortified compound where bin Laden was found, the officials said.
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My Comment: When this story broke out on Sunday, my first thought was that there had to be spies/boots on the ground before such an operation was launched. This Washington Post story now confirms that.
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