Everyone still remembers the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City, the world’s most powerful country, America. This major terrorist attack on the Twin Towers of America’s World Trade Center was carried out by Osama Bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda. Regarding which now a former officer of the American intelligence agency CIA has made a surprising claim.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou revealed that after the 9/11 attacks in America, Al-Qaeda founder and notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden had fled through the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan wearing women’s clothes.

Bin Laden was hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan

John Kiriakou served in the US intelligence agency CIA for 15 years and has also led anti-terrorism operations in Pakistan. In an exclusive interview given to news agency ANI, John Kiriakou claimed that the US military believed that they had targeted Osama bin Laden along with many other leaders of Al-Qaeda in October 2001.

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However, he had no knowledge that the translator of the Commander of the Central Command was in reality a member of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. The US military, based on their belief that they had surrounded Bin Laden, ordered him to descend the mountain. But through his translator hidden in the American Army, he talked about the safe evacuation of women and children before his surrender and asked for time till morning.

American official John Kiriakou said, ‘We asked him to come down the mountain, then he asked us through a translator, can you give us time till morning? We want to evacuate our women and children safely and then come down and surrender. But what happened after this was that Bin Laden dressed in women’s clothes and took advantage of the darkness of the night and fled to Pakistan in the back of a pickup truck.

He said, ‘After the morning, when the American army came to know that Bin Laden and other terrorists had escaped from Tora Bora mountain, after this the American army launched its operation in Pakistan.’

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