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美中情局长指挥击毙本拉登行动 海豹突击队负责执行

The American intelligence agency, the CIA, has said the United States did not inform Pakistan about the operation to capture Osama Bin Laden because it feared the Pakistani authorities would alert him. Pakistan has described the US raid on Sunday in Abbottabad as an "unauthorised unilateral action" and said it should not be taken as a rule. From Washington, here's Mark Mardell.

Leon Panetta, the head of the CIA, has told Time magazine it was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardise the mission. He also reveals that the final decision to opt for a commando raid rather than firing cruise missiles at the compound from the air was only taken last Thursday. Panetta says that President Obama was in the end swayed by the number of dead a cruise missile attack would leave and the risk of hitting other homes. So the CIA chief told the Navy Seal team "Go in there, get Bin Laden, and if Bin Laden isn't there, get the hell out."

美国“纠结”是否公开本拉登尸照

The White House has said Osama Bin Laden was not armed when he was killed by US forces, but he resisted the attempt to capture him alive. Also from Washington, here's Paul Adams.

On Monday, the president's counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan suggested that Osama Bin Laden might have been armed during Sunday morning's assault. Now the White House spokesman Jay Carney says this was not the case. Mr Brennan also raised the possibility that one of Bin Laden's wives was shot dead when someone used her as a human shield. But Mr Carney says that Bin Laden's wife was shot in the leg when she tried to stop a member of the American team from reaching her husband. He says another woman was killed in crossfire but on a different floor of the building. Meanwhile, the White House is still hesitating over whether to release a photograph of Osama Bin Laden's dead body.