Bin Laden’s old compound destroyed in Pakistan
The compound where Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid last year in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Pakistan is halfway finished demolishing the compound that housed Osama bin Laden until a raid by US commanders last May killed the Al-Qaeda chief, the Associated Press reported.
Authorities roped off the area on Saturday night and have already torn down half the three-story building in the northwestern town of Abbottabad, said AP.
A Pakistani military official told CNN on the condition of anonymity that the "action was taken to keep the compound from ever becoming a shrine for bin Laden's followers."
The bin Laden operation chagrined Pakistani authorities, who were not informed of the plan beforehand.
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The incident revealed increasing mistrust between US and Pakistani authorities.
The US has criticized Pakistan for not cracking down on militants fleeing to the country from neighboring Afghanistan, a situation that complicated counterrorism efforts in Afghanistan.
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