No Pak role in Laden raid: White House

WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday flatly rejected claims that Pakistan was told in advance about a 2011 Special Forces raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Veteran US journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in a British publication that Pakistan’s security services not unilateral US mission is patently false,” he said.
The raid on Abbottabad caused public outcry in Pakistan and strained already uneasy relations between Washington and Islamabad.It was also seen as a hallmark achievement of Obama’s first term. “Knowledge of this operation was confined to a very small circle of senior US officials,” insisted Price.
“The president decided early on not to inform any other government, including the Pakistani government, which was not notified until after the raid had occurred.”Hersh, who rose to prominence by exposing atrocities during the Vietnam War, was writing in the London Review of Books.