Evidence terrorist was ready to flee at short notice

IN indications that Osama bin Laden was prepared to flee at short notice, cash totalling €500 and two telephone numbers were found sewn into his clothing when he was killed by US commandos deep inside Pakistan on Sunday.

The information was given by top intelligence officials to members of the Congress at a classified briefing at which CIA Director Leon Panetta was present.

Another US media report said the American troops that swooped on bin Laden’s compound at Abbottabad may have laid their hands on the “largest potential intelligence coup of the post-9/11 era.”