Pakistani military on Wednesday dismissed as “totally baseless” a U.S. media report which claimed that an army major was among five arrested informants who provided information to the CIA ahead of last month’s American raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
In a brief statement, a spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations “strongly refuted” the news report, saying “there is no army officer detained and the story is false and totally baseless.”
The New York Times had quoted American officials as saying that the ISI had arrested five Pakistani informants who fed information to the CIA in the months leading up to the raid that killed bin Laden in Abbottabad.
The report said the detained CIA informants included a Pakistan army major who “copied the license plates of cars visiting bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad.”
