RELATED:No tears for bin Laden in Abbottabad, only confusionObama-1, Osama-0 Who else is condemning the US for killing bin Laden? Obama chooses smart power The surveillance effort was so extensive after the compound was discovered last August that the CIA sought authority from Congress to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within various agency budgets to fund it, the newspaper reported.The effort included satellite imagery and efforts to record voices inside the compound, the Post said.It said the safe house was not used in Monday's raid by US Navy SEALs in which bin Laden was killed, and has since been closed."The intelligence work was as complete as it was going to be, and it was the military's turn to finish the target," the Post quoted a US official as saying.
'CIA surveilled bin Laden compound for months'
'Washington Post' report says safe house in Abbottabad was used as a base of operations for gathering intelligence on the compound.
RELATED:No tears for bin Laden in Abbottabad, only confusionObama-1, Osama-0 Who else is condemning the US for killing bin Laden? Obama chooses smart power The surveillance effort was so extensive after the compound was discovered last August that the CIA sought authority from Congress to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within various agency budgets to fund it, the newspaper reported.The effort included satellite imagery and efforts to record voices inside the compound, the Post said.It said the safe house was not used in Monday's raid by US Navy SEALs in which bin Laden was killed, and has since been closed."The intelligence work was as complete as it was going to be, and it was the military's turn to finish the target," the Post quoted a US official as saying.