Osama bin Laden
A leaked Pakistani report on the May 1, 2001 U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound provides a first-hand view into the dysfunctions of a Pakistani government that both managed to play host to the world’s most wanted man — and then failed to react to the U.S. operation that had to breach Pakistani sovereignty to kill him.
The Pakistani government established the Abbottabad Commission a month after the raid to investigate what was then a source of profound national humiliation. Led by a senior judge of the Supreme Court, and comprising three retired military and police officers, the commission had a mandate to report on government lapses and propose recommendations.
Click here to see the five key take-aways from their scathing report.