Breaking News: CIA had secret outpost in Abbottabad

---------------------------------------- Breaking News Alert: CIA had secret outpost in Abbottabad May 5, 2011 8:46:22 PM ---------------------------------------- The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. special operations forces this week, U.S. officials said. The secret CIA facility was used as a base of operations for one of the most delicate human intelligence gathering mission in recent CIA history, one that relied on Pakistani informants and other sources to help assemble a "pattern of life" portrait of the occupants and daily activities at the fortified compound where bin Laden was found, the officials said. http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/46MP2V/6V5PZR/JI6LKW/9U9JXC/XYJUP/1G/h For more information, visit washingtonpost.com