Osama tip came from us, says ISI

Stung by lingering suspicions that it was complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's spy agency has claimed credit for helping U.S. intelligence agencies locate the high-walled hideout of the terror mastermind. “The lead and the information actually came from us,” a senior official of the Inter-Services Intelligence told Washington Post , in what the paper said was a push for recognition ahead of the anniversary of the stealth raid that killed bin Laden.

The official claimed that it was ISI which had provided CIA with a cellphone number that eventually led to an al-Qaeda courier Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti, the paper said.

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Post said that U.S. officials disputed the ISI version.