U.S. contradicts Taliban leader on bin Laden visits

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- Visits by outsiders to the Osama bin Laden compound were "few and far between," a U.S. official said.

The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, disputed comments published in the Daily Beast website from a Taliban leader in Afghanistan who suggested Osama bin Laden was not isolated and did receive visitors at the Pakistan compound. The Daily Beast report said the senior Taliban leader claimed to have visited bin Laden in the Abbottabad compound two years ago.

While more could be learned about bin Laden's activities, including visitors, as U.S. agents go through the materials seized from the compound, but thus far U.S. intelligence suggests visits were "infrequent," according to the official.

The U.S. did not have constant surveillance of the compound, in part because the U.S. did not want to tip off bin Laden or the other occupants that they were being watched.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/16/bin.laden.visitors/index.html

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1. Elint and overhead surveillance wouldn't tip anyone off. "US didn't have constant surveillance" -

but, I suppose they'll stick with the story that there was no forewarning about the 9/11 attacks, too.

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2. (Off-the-record)Official V. Daily Beast?

Illuminating.