Did Wikileaks Force America’s Hand to go after Bin Laden?

One of the more interesting wikileaked cables to come out in the few weeks is a cable from 2008 detailing prisoner files from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. In the document released last week it names the courier who we tracked to find Osama, and his working location, namely Pesahwar and Abbottabad.

“UBL stated detainee would be the official messenger between UBL and others in Pakistan. 12 In mid-2003, detainee moved his family to Abbottabad, PK and worked between Abbottabad and Peshawar. 13 (S//NF)”

We know that the Taliban has been reading Wikileaks to find out info on people working with the US and Pakistan. Was the US pressured to act quickly, knowing that the cable and the relevant info was released last week? If they read the cable, they could have know that the information was available to the CIA and moved him. We’ll probably never know, but its interesting to speculate.

Here’s a link to the relevant cable, highlighted for your convenience:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/87933-interrogation-file-of-abu-faraj-al-libi.html#document/p5/a17091

(I’m very proud of my GIMP’ing of that image.)

On a side note, Osama’s hideout currently has 3/5 stars (990 reviews) on Google Maps.

Sample review, 3/5 stars: I’m the local real estate expert and look at this little fixer -upper B&B. must be good at plaster repair and not squeemish about cleaning some minor stains and bio-material. Well secluded, and the neighbors will hardly bother to even notice you if you like privacy. New helipad. Telephone and internet to be set up by buyer- may take a few weeks. Comes with a few newer vehicles that appear to have some minor hail damage although the weather in this region doesn’t normally produce it. Security not necessary due to the fact it resides soooo close to military base who keep a close eye out for local riffraff…. Previous owners are very motivated sellers, recent deaths in family forced a rapid move out. Move fast, I know one person recently had his eye on it!!!!

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