Washington/London: The US government killed Osama bin Laden because
a Pakistani intelligence officer came forward to collect the
approximately 25-million-dollar reward from the State Department’s
Rewards for Justice program, an expert in US national security has
claimed.
In her blog, RJ Hillhouse, a former professor and
Fulbright fellow and also an ex-rum and jewel smuggler, cited sources
that contend it was an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer who
came forward to claim the substantial reward and to broker US
citizenship for his family.
“The informant claimed that the
Saudis were paying off the Pakistani military and intelligence (ISI) to
essentially shelter and keep bin Laden under house arrest in
Abbottabad,” she quoted here sources, as saying. “The CIA and friends
then set about proving that OBL was indeed there. And they did,”
Hillhouse wrote on her blog. She also claimed that the Pakistani
military, as well as the ISI, not only knew about the American raid on
the bin Laden lair, but also cooperated with the United States. “The
ISI and Pakistani military were cooperating with the US on the raid… It
had always seemed very far-fetched to me that a helicopter could crash
and later destroyed in an area with such high military concentration
without the Pakistanis noticing,” she pointed out. The US State
Department said that it would not comment on Hillhouse’s blog, the
Daily Mail reports. Hillhouse’s explosive report would dispute the
widely published reports that a courier working for bin Laden was the
catalyst for the famous Navy SEAL Team Six mission. Online
