SHOCKING Leak: Bin Laden Escaped Tora Bora In Woman’s Disguise While US Bribed Pakistani President | VIDEO | World News
In a shocking new revelation, a former CIA official said Osama bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fled Afghanistan disguised as a woman to evade US troops in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains.
Former 15-year CIA veteran and head of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, John Kiriakou, explained the reported escape and a serious intelligence failure in an exclusive interview with news agency ANI.
Spy Translator Prevents Capture of Tora Bora
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Kiriakou said U.S. troops felt bin Laden and al-Qaeda command were trapped in Tora Bora after the September 11 attacks. However, their position was weakened due to internal leakage.
“We did not know that the Central Command commander’s interpreter was actually an Al Qaeda operative who had infiltrated the US military,” Kiriakou said.
#WRISTWATCH | About the escape of Osama Bin Laden, former CIA Officer in charge of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan and CIA Torture Program Whistleblower, John Kiriakou says: “… Bin Laden disguised himself as a woman and escaped under the cover of darkness in the back of a pickup truck… pic.twitter.com/aN3OHWjBND— ANI (@ANI) 24 October 2025
When American troops demanded bin Laden’s surrender, the Al Qaeda leader hired the infiltrated translator to buy time, Kiriakou said. Bin Laden requested a temporary delay until dawn for the “evacuation of women and children”, which was given by the interpreter to the commander, General Franks.
At dawn, the US soldiers realized that they had been tricked and that the Tora Bora caves were empty.
Bin Laden Escaped with a Pickup Truck
Kiriakou later described how bin Laden escaped from the surrounded mountain range to Pakistan.
Kiriakou continued: “In fact, bin Laden disguised himself as a woman and escaped to Pakistan at night in the bed of a pickup truck.”
Bin Laden hid on the Pakistani border for almost a decade before he was assassinated in a US Navy SEAL operation in Abbottabad in May 2011.
CIA bought President Musharraf
Kiriakou also revealed the dynamics of the relationship between the Pakistani government and US intelligence under then-President Pervez Musharraf.
Responding to a question about the close relationship between the two spy agencies, the retired CIA official claimed that the US actually bribed the Pakistani leader.
“Let’s be honest here. The US likes to do business with dictators. That’s why we bought Musharraf,” he claimed.
Kiriakou explained that America gives “millions and millions and millions of dollars of aid, whether it’s military aid or economic development aid.” The aid guaranteed that Musharraf would “let us do whatever we want to do.”
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