Osama bin Laden escaped Afghanistan disguised as a burqa: Says former CIA officer

The former CIA officer explained that when daybreak arrived, we realized that no one was in the Tora Bora hills. All the terrorists had fled. So we decided to fight our battle in Pakistan.

New Delhi: John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, has made a shocking revelation. He revealed that Osama bin Laden, the founder of the dreaded terrorist organization al-Qaeda and once America's most wanted terrorist, escaped from the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan to Pakistan disguised as a woman.

Kiriakou revealed that the translator for the commander of the US Army's Central Command was actually an al-Qaeda operative and had helped Osama bin Laden escape.

CIA officer reveals how Osama bin Laden escaped concealed.

Kiriakou explained, "We were unaware that the translator for our Central Command commander was an al-Qaeda terrorist who had infiltrated the US military. When we learned that bin Laden was surrounded, we used that translator to tell him to come down from the mountains." Al-Qaeda demanded that women and children be allowed to leave safely and that they be given until morning to surrender. The translator convinced our commander of this, but in the meantime, bin Laden, taking advantage of the darkness and disguised as a woman in a burqa, managed to escape and reach Pakistan.

The former CIA officer explained that when daybreak arrived, we realized that no one was in the Tora Bora hills. All the terrorists had fled. So we decided to fight our battle in Pakistan. The US later killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011. This exposed the nexus between Pakistan and terrorists to the world.

'Musharraf handed over control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons to the Pentagon'
Kiriakou also claimed that when he was posted as the CIA's head of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan in 2002, he was formally informed that the Pentagon had control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. He said that Musharraf had handed over this control to the US out of fear. However, he also said that the Pakistani military has completely denied this for the past two decades. Kiriakou said that if the Pakistani military now has control of nuclear weapons, then this situation is extremely dangerous.