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Pakistan Agrees To Let CIA Search Bin Laden's Compound

The compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was found and killed. (May 3, 2011, file photo.)
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The compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was found and killed. (May 3, 2011, file photo.)

"Pakistan has agreed to allow the CIA to send a forensics team to examine the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed," , citing "U.S. officials" as its sources.

According to the Post, the team will be looking for materials that the al-Qaida leader and his follows might have hidden at the site.

American Navy SEAL commandos raided the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in . They carried away what U.S. officials have since described as a treasure trove of computer drives and other materials with information about the terrorist network.

Update at 1:51 p.m. ET: NPR's Rachel Martin has checked with her sources and tells the °µºÚ±¬ÁÏcast desk that "U.S. officials" confirm the news.

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