---------------------------------------- Breaking News Alert: CIA had secret outpost in Abbottabad May 5, 2011 8:46:22 PM ---------------------------------------- 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 mission 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. <http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/7CWL7Z/3OZFVZ/S1S40C/FG3UQM/XYJUP/1G/h> http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/7CWL7Z/3OZFVZ/S1S40C/FG3UQM/XYJUP/1G/h CIA spied on bin Laden from safe house <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/osama-bin-ladens-hideout-raided-in-pakistan/2011/05/02/AFmxZ7YF_gallery.html> http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/05/04/Web-Resampled/2011-05-04/BLCompound002--606x404.jpg <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/osama-bin-ladens-hideout-raided-in-pakistan/2011/05/02/AFmxZ7YF_gallery.html> View Photo Gallery — The long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States was killed by U.S. forces May 1 in a surgical raid. By Greg Miller <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/greg+miller/> , Thursday, May 5, 7:56 PM The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/bin-laden-killed/> 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 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-is-killed-by-us-forces-in-pakistan/2011/05/01/AFXMZyVF_story.html> 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. * Pakistani military, government warn U.S. against future raids <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-questions-legality-of-us-operation-that-killed-bin-laden/2011/05/05/AFM2l0wF_story.html> * CIA spied on bin Laden from safe house <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cia-spied-on-bin-laden-from-safe-house/2011/05/05/AFXbG31F_story.html> * Al-Qaeda data yields details of planned plots <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-data-yields-details-of-planned-plots/2011/05/05/AFFQ3L2F_story.html> * Lawmakers urging speedy pullout in Afghanistan unlikely to make headway <http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawmakers-urging-speedy-pullout-in-afghanistan-unlikely-to-make-headaway/2011/05/05/AFgvJf1F_story.html> * At Ground Zero, Obama quietly completes a circle <http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-ground-zero-obama-quietly-completes-a-circle/2011/05/05/AFhqGw0F_story.html> * Obama to meet with participants in raid on bin Laden <http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-meet-with-participants-in-bin-laden-raid/2011/05/05/AFQnaS0F_story.html> The on-the-ground surveillance work was part of an intelligence-gathering push mobilized after the discovery of the suspicious complex last August that involved virtually every category of collection in the U.S. arsenal, ranging from satellite imagery to eavesdropping efforts aimed at recording voices inside the compound. The effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it, U.S. officials said. Most of that surveillance capability remained in place until the execution of the raid <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bin_laden_discovered_hiding_in_plain_sight/2011/05/02/AFEljUbF_story.html?nav=emailpage> by U.S. Navy SEALs shortly after 1 a.m. in Pakistan. The agency’s safe house did not play a role in the raid and has since been shut down, in part because of concerns about the safety of CIA assets in the aftermath, but also because the agency’s work was considered finished. “The CIA’s job was to find and fix,” said a U.S. official, using Special Operations forces terminology for the identification and location of a high-value target. “The intelligence work was as complete as it was going to be, and it was the military’s turn to finish the target.” The official, like others quoted for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the record. The CIA declined to comment. U.S. officials provided new details on bin Laden’s final moments, saying the al-Qaeda leader was first spotted by U.S. forces in the doorway of his room on the compound’s third floor. Bin Laden then turned and retreated into the room before being shot twice — in the head and in the chest. U.S. commandos later found an AK-47 and a pistol in the room. “He was retreating,” a move that was regarded as resistance, a U.S. official briefed on the operation said. “You don’t know why he’s retreating, what he’s doing when he goes back in there. Is he getting a weapon? Does he have a [suicide] vest?” Despite what officials described as an extraordinarily concentrated collection effort leading up to the operation, no U.S. spy agency was ever able to capture a photograph of bin Laden at the compound before the raid, or a recording of the voice of the mysterious male figure whose family occupied the structure’s top two floors. Indeed, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that bin Laden employed remarkable discipline in his efforts to evade detection <http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/o/7CWL7Z/3OZFVZ/S1S40C/FG3UQM/U1FD/52> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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