Bin Laden's house in Abbottabad, Rawalpindi (Photo : Twitter)
A new conspiracy theory claims that the Barack Obama administration lied about the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.
In a report titled "The Killing of Osama bin Laden" published in the London Review of Books, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed the United States' official version of the hunt for Bin Laden is largely fabricated.
For Hersh, the White House's story about the CIA tracking Bin laden to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the al-Qaeda leader was killed by U.S. Navy Seals on May 2, 2011 "might have been written by Lewis Carroll."
A Pakistani intelligence officer revealed the whereabouts of Bin Laden in return for a $25million reward, which the US. Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, offered, and the al-Qaeda leader had been held captive in the compound since 2006, according to Hersh, who also exposed the torture of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib in 2004.
In response to Hersh's Bin Laden killing conspiracy theory, the White House said Hersh's claim was "baseless."
In a statement obtained by CNN, White House National Security spokesman Ned Price said to reporters said, "There are too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to fact check each one."
"As we said at the time, knowledge of this operation was confined to a very small circle of senior U.S. officials," said Price.
Moreover, Price explained that Obama decided early on not to notify any other government, even the Pakistani Government, which was not informed until after the invasion had taken place.
