Presidential Directive - Key Bin Laden Intel Came From Detainee Later Released Reuters

WASHINGTON Thu May 12, 2011 4:19pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The real breakthrough in which ended in al Qaeda boss Osama trash Laden came from a classy terraces CIA detainee, Hassan Ghul, as outlined by a Reuters exclusive survey published about Thursday.

Based upon interviews using a pair of number of current and also previous mature intelligence, White House and State Department officials, the special statement explores the particular guidelines along with measures from the United States inside it's 13-year try to find bin Laden.

According to be able to the particular report, it was before Ghul which immediately after numerous years of tantalizing hints coming from different detainees eventually offered the knowledge of which advised the actual CIA to help center greatly on finding Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti, pseudonym to the courier would you lead them to bin Laden.

Two U.S. officers instructed Reuters the U.S. authorities thinks Ghul seemed to be introduced by way of Pakistani authorities inside 2007 and has yet again turn into a frontline militant.

Bin Laden was much time thought to be holed up in robust mountain areas, but ended up being observed smothering inside basic picture inside Abbottabad, Pakistan.

President Barack Obama's determination not to ever inform Pakistan prior to a raid ended up being throughout preserving having a increased determination by means of Obama in addition to his group in order to "push the particular envelope" within contact with Islamabad, in accordance with some sort of an old Bush aide.

A crucial legal capacity beneath which the raid ended up being introduced continues a new September 17, 2001, presidential information by an old President George W. Bush that will sanctioned the CIA that will capture as well as eliminate major terrorism suspects.

Raid planners expected rubbish bin Laden would be killed, however in addition , they had a vaguer contingency plan about how to proceed whenever he or she were being captured, administrators said.

(Reporting by Caren Bohan , Mark Hosenball , Missy Ryan and also Warren Strobel; Editing by Claudia Parsons )