Osama must have moved to Abbottabad recently: Pakistani envoy
May 2nd, 2011 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANSLondon, May 2 (IANS) Pakistan’s envoy in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan said Monday Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by American forces in Abbottabad near Islamabad, lived like a gypsy, shifting from one place to another, and must have moved to Pakistan recently.
“What I have been telling is that Osama bin Laden is like a gypsy, one day here, next day there. He was in Afghanistan, he was in the Tora Bora mountains and some other place. All the time he was moving… he must have moved (to Abbottaba) recently,” Hasan told CNN-IBN.
“If he had been there since ages, he would have been spotted down by Americans who are keeping a track of him. They have most sophisticated gadgets to track down, they wouldn’t have waited for five years. They would have attacked (earlier) if they had known,” said the high commissioner.
When told there was speculation that Laden’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri was also hiding in Pakistan, Hasan said: “Media is free to say any thing.”
American military and CIA operatives cornered the world’s most wanted terrorist in Abbottabad, about 70 km northeast of Pakistan’s capital. The killing ended a 10-year manhunt for the Al Qaeda leader.
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