[Abbottabad Commission report]
By: commission members, Justice Javed Iqbal, Abbas Khan, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed
Contributors: Al Jazeera (Television network)
Publisher: the Commission?
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Islamabad, Pakistan?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Assassination; Intelligence service; Governmental investigations
Description: Osama bin Laden lived unmolested in Pakistan for almost a decade because of the "collective incompetence and negligence" of the country's security forces, according to this Pakistani government report. The four-member Abbottabad Commission, led by a Supreme Court judge, interviewed 201 people, including the country's intelligence leaders, in an effort to piece together the events around the American raid on May 2, 2011, that killed Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, and embarrassed the Pakistani government. The report, apparently prepared in approximately January 2013, was suppressed by authorities in Islamabad. It was leaked to the media in July 2013. The prominent Middle East-based broadcaster al Jazeera posted it on its website, acknowledging that there is one omission, a page of testimony from a Pakistani spy chief that appeared to describe elements of Pakistan's security cooperation with the United States. The commission, in its report, leans toward incompetence rather than conspiracy in explaining Pakistan's failure to catch bin Laden after he arrived in the country in mid-2002. It casts doubt on the testimony of key government officials, noting that key questions remain unanswered, and suggests the possibility that some Pakistani security officials covertly helped bin Laden.
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Pages "watermarked" Aljazeera.

Description based on online resource; no title contained in document, commission title not given in document (Aljazeera, viewed July 14, 2013).
Table of contents: title: Acronyms used.; title: Executive summary.; title: Introduction.; title: The fateful night of May 1-2.; title: Accounts of wives of OBL and Al-Kuwaiti.; title: US operation Neptune Spear.; title: Residents and officials of Kala Khaka/Tor Ghar.; title: Local civil administration officials, Abbottabad.; title: Cantonment and military officials, Abbottabad.; title: Local notables, Abbottabad.; title: Local media in Abbottabad.; title: Local police officials.; title: Senior KPK officials.; title: Dr. Shakeel Afridi and SAVE the Children.; title: Chairman National Database and Registration.; title: Aviation and explosives experts.; title: Visit to Ghazi Base, Tarbela.; title: DG military operations and DG Joint Staff.; title: Bistis of Commission to ADC.; title: Alient points of PAP Board of Inquiry.; title: Senior Air Force officials.; title: Inputs of former DCAS AM Shahid Latif.; title: Civil and military intelligence chiefs.; title: Inputs provided by former NSA.; title: Hussain Haqqani and the visa regime.; title: Federal secretaries and ministers.; title: Assessments of the Commission.; title: Assessment of the GOP response.; title: Legal aspects of the May 2 incident.; title: US Pakistan relations.; title: Findings of the Commission.; title: Recommendations.; title: Conclusion.