The courier whom US special forces tracked to the house where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was found and killed Sunday was a Kuwaiti named Abu Ahmad, broadcaster CNN reported Tuesday, citing a diplomatic source.
US officials have stated that the courier - whom they have not named - was first linked to bin Laden in 2007. By tracing his movements, US forces eventually found the house in Abbottabad, Pakistan where the mission was carried out, DPA reported.
CNN reported that an analysis of documents released by WikiLeaks and pertaining to detainees at the US holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, included several references to a man named Abu Ahmad, a Kuwaiti who was reportedly close to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an al- Qaeda leader who was arrested in 2003.
Since the bin Laden operation, US officials have repeatedly described the tracked courier as both a protege of Mohammed and Abu Faraj al Libi, a man described as al-Qaeda's third most senior leader upon his capture in 2005.
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