Washington: CIA forensic experts inspected the compound where former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed to search for possible al Qaeda materials hidden inside the walls at the site by using modern equipments, an American newspaper reported.
Security in Abbottabad was stepped up during the visit of the site by the CIA experts.
An American official said that the CIA team stayed the compound for several hours, and searched the compound till 1800 (6:00pm) local time. The CIA experts managed to get more important material hidden in the compound, the US official said.
The CIA team, comprising at least four to five forensic experts, visiting the compound in Abbottabad, with an objective to scrub the site for items that were not recovered by American commandos, sources said. The team visited the compound when Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and US Joints Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Mike Mullen was on Islamabad tour.
The CIA was given the nod by the Pakistani authorities to enter the compound which it had previously scrutinised only from a distance, using satellites and stealth drones.
The CIA suspects bin Laden might have created hidden cavities within the complex to store away top secret al Qaeda documents. The US Navy Seals team which conducted the raid against former al Qaeda chief only managed to lift hard-discs, computers and other material in the room, where they killed him.
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