German spy agency ‘helped US find bin Laden’: report

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan where U.S. special forces killed the al-Qaeda leader, according to a German news report published Sunday. The BND spy service provided a tip-off that bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, with the knowledge of Pakistani security services. The information came from a BND informant within Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency and confirmed CIA suspicions, according to a newspaper report which cited unnamed US intelligence sources. The American source was quoted as saying the German tip-off was of “fundamental importance” in the hunt for the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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