Dhaka, Nov 9 — Ayman al-Zawahiri, the then number two of al-Qaeda, led the US SEAL team to Osama bin Laden's hideout by repeatedly sending a courier to his hiding place in Abbottabad, a former member of the team claims in his new book.
"Despite knowing that this operative was blown, Zawahiri used Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti to make repeated trips to Laden's compound," CNN-IBN quoted former SEAL Chuck Pfarrer as saying in the book 'Seal Target Geronimo'.
Kuwaiti had been interrogated by the CIA.
"Based on this accumulation of information, one can draw conclusion that it was Zawahiri who led the US to bin Laden's hiding place in Abbottabad, accomplishing this through a complex and persistent series of lapses in security," CNN-IBN said quoting Pfarrer.
"Some of these slips were subtle and some of them were so obvious that they were laughable," Pfarrer wrote in his book.
According to the satellite news channel, the book also claims that Zawahiri even tried to get the Russians to kill Laden and he also wrongly diagnosed Laden.
"Zawahiri tried to get the Russians to kill bin Laden; they did not. He hoped that Addison's disease would take him, but it did not. Now Zawahiri played his final card - he deliberately used a blown courier to communicate with Osama, and the inevitable happened. The Americans found him," Pfarrer wrote in his 225-page book published by the New York-based St Martin's Press, CNN-IBN said.
"Zawahiri had several advantages over his boss. Besides an innate viciousness, Zawahiri could speak and read English. He was an avid consumer of American news about al Qaeda. Moving between his own 1st-provided safe houses, Zawahiri had his messages delivered in Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti's fantastically painted four wheel-drive truck. The vehicle and its frequent destination soon attracted the attention of American intelligence," Pfarrer wrote.
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