Former American President Barack Obama Claimed That Zardari Congratulate Him and called the death Of Osama Bin Laden “Good News”.
Barack Obama’s published the book ‘A Promised Land’ on 17th November. In his book, he also mentioned details of the raid on Osama Bin Laden at Abbottabad. Barack Obama has claimed that the US raid into Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden was easier than he had expected.
The former US president revealed that the then vice president Joe Biden and defense secretary Robert Gates opposed the raid.
Obama mentioned in the book that after the death of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a US Navy SEAL team in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. He called to the Americans and international leaders.
Asif Zardari and Benazir Bhutto
He thought the toughest phone call would be to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari because of pressure from across the country after the incident. Pakistan’s integrity may have been ridiculed.
However, when I reached him he expressed congratulations and support. ''Whatever the fallout,'' he said, ''it's very good news."
In addition, Obama wrote that on the phone call Asif Ali Zardari was clearly emotional, supportive and also mentioned his wife, Benazir Bhutto, who had been “killed by al-Qaeda-linked militants.”
Obama wrote in the book that he had told his close advisers in May 2009 that he wanted to track down Osama bin Laden and that plans should be launched and notified every 30 days.
Obama said "the most important thing was the secrecy of our plan. If even the slightest hint of our plan on bin Laden leaked, we knew our opportunity would be lost."
Obama wrote "The Pakistani government has been very supportive of us on the issue of Afghanistan, but he decided not to share the information with Islamabad as it is an open secret that there are some elements in their military and intelligence agencies who still have ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban and use them as assets. With the help of which India can be weakened.”
“The fact that the Abbottabad compound was just a few miles from the Pakistan military’s equivalent of West Point only heightened the possibility that anything we told the Pakistanis could end up tipping off our target,” he added.
Obama has further written that the United States had made two plans against Osama bin Laden, one of which was to send Navy personnel to Pakistan and the other was to carry out drone strikes from close range. We opted for the second option.
The world’s most wanted terrorist on May 2, 2011, was killed by American commandos inside his compound in Abbottabad.
