“We do not expect a reward to be paid,” A U.S. official told ABC News. “The reward will go uncollected.”
The reasoning is that government intelligence, including electronic surveillance, led to his capture and ultimate death. The CIA never had an informer willing to give up the terrorist leader.
After a slow drip of intelligence, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a raid by a team of SEALs to capture or killed Osama bin Laden.
The CIA used satellites, drones, phone surveillance to gain information on the terrorist leader, but had no absolute proof he was in the compound before Mr. Obama ordered the raid.
The CIA declined comment on the specific tactics used to locate him.
Osama bin Laden lasted for 10 years after the September 11 attacks, avoiding American power and intelligence gathering sources.
“It’s a myth the U.S. government has all these high tech gizmos that can perform miracles,” Richard Alderman, a U.S. government contractor in the intelligence industry, told Politically Illustrated. “The trail for bin Laden went cold in the summer of 2009 and there was no one thing or a single informer that brought it back.”
