Thursday, May 5, 2011

CIA denies bin Laden was captured before his killing

CIA denies bin Laden was captured before his killing*

By Robert Windrem



The CIA categorically denies two stories coming out of Pakistan, sourced to bin Laden family members:

1) that Osama bin Laden was captured at the scene and then killed minutes afterward; this from his daughter.

2) that a second bin Laden son, Mohammed, was thrown on the chopper as it departed Abbottabad.

"We categorically deny both of those," said a CIA spokesman.

Two senior US officials told NBC News Tuesday that the "only person other than the team who left Abbottabad was Osama Bin Laden's remains."

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