Washington: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that a Pakistani doctor had given crucial information to the US in advance before the Navy SEAL successfully killed Osama Bin Laden in a compound in Pakistan's Abbottabad area on May 2nd.
Panetta told CBS News that the doctor named Shikal Afridi had provided the key information that helped in conducting the raid on Osama's compound in Abbottabad.
Afridi had conducted a vaccination programme for the CIA to collect DNA and thus confirmed the presence of Osama in the compound.
Panetta said that he believes that someone in the Pakistani government knew about the presence of Osama in the compound where he was tracked by the Navy SEALs.
I personally have always felt that somebody must have had some sense of what was happening at this compound, Panetta was quoted as saying to CBS News.
Chief of militant organization Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2nd last year in Pakistan by U.S. forces and then quickly buried at sea in a dramatic ending to an almost decade long manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist.
