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Washington, May 4 (ANI): US troops were stationed just a few hundred yards from Osama Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan in 2008, the whistleblower website ‘Wikileaks’ has revealed.

The revelation that came from the Guantánamo files suggested that the US might have received the intelligence about the dreaded terrorist’s presence there as early as 2008, The Guardian reports.

The US soldiers were due to perform a routine posting “training the trainers” of Pakistan’s 70,000-strong federal military unit, the Frontier Corps. Pakistan Military Academy is located very near to the site where bin-Laden was tracked down and killed on Sunday night.

The information about the US troops is contained in the account of a meeting in Washington between the-then US Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, discussing security co-operation and concerns across the country.

After both parties agreed that the security plans lacked resources, Pakistan’s national security advisor, Mahmud Ali Durrani, referred to the training co-operation.

“Durrani pledged Pakistan’s support for the US Training-of-Trainers for the Frontier Corps starting in Abbottabad in October,” the paper quoted the report, as saying.

The cable also said that the US forces might have visited the town months later for a second time.

Abbottabad is reportedly the only town that had not been often mentioned in the 250,000 leaked embassy cables. (ANI)