A newly released book by former US president Barack Obama, A Promised Land, gives play-by-play details of the raid conducted in Abbottabad which resulted in the death of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.
“Whatever we chose to do in Abbottabad, then, would involve violating the territory of a putative ally in the most egregious way possible, short of war- raising both the diplomatic stakes and the operational complexities,” he wrote.
Obama said in the book that he knew this raid would violate the sanctity of the US’s ally, but he felt this decision was needed to make sure they did not miss their chance to take out the Al Qaeda leader.
It was revealed that his closest aides – Former United States Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and then Vice President Joe Biden – had opposed the raid.
