A Pakistani commission, investigating presence of Osama bin Laden in the country and the U. S. raid to kill him, will analyze nearly 178,000 documents gathered from the compound where former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden lived for years, local media reported on Wednesday.
Osama was killed in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011 and the commission is investigating as to why the Pakistani authorities failed to know about the presence of the world most-wanted man in the country and the 40-minute operation carried out by the U.S. special task forces, Xinhua reported.
The Inquiry Commission on the Abbottabad operation has either found the documents in Osama's compound or documents handed over to it by the security agencies they had recovered after the U.S. raid.
Pakistani newspapers reported that the documents consist of diaries, letters and other relevant pages that sensitive security agencies are translating since they are all in Arabic. Once they are translated, the Commission will analyze them as part of its investigations. Sources say many more documents existed but were taken away by the American operation team, The News daily reported.
Two computer disks were also retrieved from the compound and are now in the possession of security agencies.
The Commission has visited the Osama compound and met family members of the al-Qaida chief, who are now in custody of the Pakistani authorities.
The commission, headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, has also interviewed dozens of military, intelligence and other security officials, political leaders, residents of the town where Osama is believed to have lived for five years.
The Commission Chairman said last month that the investigation will be completed shortly and a report will be submitted to the government. He said the commission will request the government to make the inquiry report public.
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