An ex-CIA officer explains how Osama Bin Laden managed to get out of Afghanistan by dressing as a woman.

Following the 9/11 attacks, the United States launched an anti-terror campaign against Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. According to former CIA official John Kiriakou, the country’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, escaped from one of the terror locations dressed as a woman.

The former CIA official said in an exclusive interview with ANI that Al-Qaeda founder Laden entered Pakistan in a pickup vehicle after escaping from the Tora Bora mountains disguised as a woman.

Kiriakou, who led the CIA’s counterterrorism operations in Pakistan after 15 years of service, said that a translator employed by the US military at the time was really an Al-Qaeda agent.

First, rather of being proactive at the time, the United States was reactive. You recall that before we began bombing Afghanistan, we waited for almost a month. We were attempting to be methodical. We were attempting to avoid letting emotions influence our decisions. Additionally, we waited a month for the area to properly develop up. After that, we started targeting well-known Al-Qaeda locations. Once again, mostly in southern and eastern Afghanistan’s Pashto regions. “We thought we had Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership surrounded at Tora Bora in October 2001,” he said.

We were unaware that the person translating for the Central Command commander was really an al-Qaeda agent who had snuck into the US military. Thus, we were aware that bin Laden was trapped,” he said.

He said that by arguing that women and children needed to be evacuated, the translator convinced General Tommy Franks to postpone the attack until morning.

We instructed him to descend the mountain. Through the interpreter, he said, “Can you just give us until dawn?” After evacuating the women and children, we intend to descend and surrender. General Franks was persuaded to accept this proposal by the translator. In the end, bin Laden disguised himself as a woman and fled into Pakistan in the back of a pickup vehicle when it was dark,” he said.

There was nobody in Tora Bora to surrender to when US soldiers arrived at morning, Kiriakou said, adding that “they had all escaped.” Therefore, we had to relocate the conflict to Pakistan.

He continued by saying that in order to get Pakistan’s support, Washington had “essentially purchased Musharraf.” “Whether it was help for economic growth or military assistance, we provided millions and millions of dollars in aid. Additionally, we would have many weekly meetings with Musharraf. In essence, he would provide us the freedom to do as we pleased. Indeed. He said that Pakistan’s military “didn’t care about Al-Qaeda; they cared about India,” but Musharraf also had his own people to deal with.

Kiriakou further said that the first analytical connection between Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al-Qaeda was discovered in 2002 during a CIA operation on a Lashkar-e-Taiba safe house in Lahore. The White House minimized this discovery in order to maintain its strategic alliance with Pakistan.