White House rejects claims by US journalist of Pakistan's role in raid that killed OBL
The report is full of "inaccuracies and baseless assertions," said Ned Price.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House on Monday flatly rejected claims that Pakistan was told in advance about a 2011 special operations 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 only knew about the raid, but had been holding bin Laden prisoner since 2006.
That account was rejected by the White House.
"This was a US operation through and through," said Edward Price, a White House National Security Council spokesman.
