Abbottabad Commission Report
[2] Indicated by the media, the report compiled the 700 pages, which lists some 200 recommendations after interviewing over 300 witnesses and scrutinizing more than 3,000 documents pertaining to the raid by US special operations forces to kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011.
[6] After much criticism, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani formed a commission under Senior Justice Javed Iqbal to investigate the incident and how bin Laden was able to avoid detection in Pakistan for a prolonged period of time.
"[7] Revealed by The Daily Telegraph British newspaper, the papers ultimately cleared the Government, armed forces, the establishment, and intelligence services of involvement in protection of the al-Qaeda chief.
[11] In an official press briefing to media, the US State Department maintained that the "U.S. shares with Pakistan a "profound" interest in learning about what kind of support network al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden might have had during his hiding but would only comment on the Abbottabad Commission's findings on the issue when it gets the actual report.
[5][16][17][18][19][20] The report drew on testimony from more than 200 witnesses, including members of Bin Laden's family, Pakistan's then spy chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha, senior ministers in the government and officials at every level of the military, bureaucracy and security services.
[20] Osama bin Laden was able to hide in Pakistan for nine years due to the "collective failure" of state military and intelligence authorities and "routine" incompetence at every level of civil governance structure, allowing the once world's most wanted man to move to six different locations within the country.
[5] The commission's 336-page report is scathing, holding both the government and the military responsible for "gross incompetence" leading to "collective failures" that allowed both Bin Laden to escape detection, and the United States to perpetrate "an act of war".
The Abbottabad Commission report blasted the Pakistani government and military for a "national disaster" over its handling of Bin Laden and called on the leadership to apologize to the people of Pakistan for their "dereliction of duty.
[17][18] "Given the length of stay and the changes of residence of [Bin Laden] and his family in Pakistan ... the possibility of some such direct or indirect and "plausibly deniable" support cannot be ruled out, at least, at some level outside formal structures of the intelligence establishment.
[21]The Pakistani military's inability to prevent an American incursion into its airspace was described as the country's greatest "humiliation" since 1971, when Indian forces routed Pakistan in a war that led to the creation of the present-day state of Bangladesh, according to the report.
