CIA forms task force to study material recovered from Osama's mansion

Monday 2 May 2011

WASHINGTON: The CIA has established a task force to study the material recovered from the mansion in Abbottabad in Pakistan where al-Qaida chief Osama Bin Laden was hiding and killed in a US operation.

"Quite a bit of materials that were found at the sight and collected: Those materials are currently being exploited and analyzed.

"A task force is being set up at CIA to conduct that task, given the volume of materials collected at the raid site," a senior intelligence official said yesterday.

The Deputy National Security Advisor for Counter terrorism and Homeland Security, John Brennan, told reporters at a crowded White House that US special forces people, who were on the compound, took advantage of their time there to make sure that they were able to acquire whatever material they thought was appropriate and needed.

"We are in the process right now of looking at whatever might have been picked up. But I'm not going to go into details about what might have been acquired," he said.

"We feel as though this is a very important time to continue to prosecute this effort against al-Qaida, take advantage of the success of yesterday and to continue to work to break the back of al-Qaida," Brennan said.

"We are trying to determine exactly the worth of whatever information we might have been able to pick up. And it's not necessarily quantity; frequently it's quality," he said in response to a question.

According to a senior intelligence official, it is a robust collection of materials that they need to sift through.

"We hope to find valuable intelligence that will lead us to other players in al-Qaida," he said. 


Source: Timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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