Patanjali, its there in this
BBC article
other details are in my post
here
Man, I appreciate your vigilance in noticing the discrepancy. But this info that BBC gives is not worth bullwaste.
Here's why:
1. No militant in this world is stupid enough to go back to hide at the same place that has been raided before.
2. No intelligence agency is stupid enough to take a hideout off the radar once it has been raided. In fact, the opposite happens in all the cases.
3. No one as rich and big as bin Laden is so dumb as to use an under construction building for a hideout. It is a strict no-no, unless it was bin Laden himself carrying the bricks and cements and doors and windows to construct it, and to avoid employing any builder/laborer who might recognize him. I doubt he was so skillful at building walls and putting down roofs.
4. The ISI official is unnamed, and I seriously doubt any ISI official would give out such a statement without authorization - There is no anonymity inside the intel agencies
5. Here's another piece on the BBC and many other news agencies which are all doing the silly guessing games all this while
US President Barack Obama watched the entire operation in real time in the White House with his national security team.
Mr Brennan said: "The minutes passed like days." (Really? How so, when the action was going on all the while and Obama was watching it all?)
CIA director Leon Panetta narrated via a video screen from a separate Washington office, with Bin Laden given the code name Geronimo. (What is the need for Panetta to narrate from a different place when Obama can himself watch the operation?)
Mr Panetta's narration lasted several minutes. "They've reached the target... We have a visual on Geronimo... Geronimo EKIA (enemy killed in action)."
Mr Obama said: "We got him."
So they are basically saying Obama watched it all, with Panetta's commentary in the background?
All this is nothing but guesses and false reporting by the news agencies trying to cash in on the moment. None of them are given and preferences by the US government, and they just busy blindly scrambling here and there.
And finally, I searched through all the news archives of 2003 pertaining to ISI raid inside Pakistan. Didn't find any relating to Abbottabad.
So yar, in the midst of all this chaos, I say we discard the unsubstantiated (
unnamed ISI official) BBC theory, and go with the Pentagon version.