The Report, which is yet to be made public, contains a treasure trove of information on the hunt for the world's most wanted man - Osama Bin Laden, the Dawn daily reported.
Its findings reveal that the arrest of Khalid Bin Attash (an al-Qaeda member who was involved in the pre-9/11 attacks such as on USS Cole and the embassies in Africa) in '2002' from Karachi led to the first major breakthrough, it reported.
During the search for this man, CIA provided four phone numbers between "2009 to Nov 2010" to Pakistan but without any details as to who they were searching for, a source privy to the report's details was quoted as saying.
The daily reported that that these numbers "most of the time remained off" but while the ISI kept the CIA in the loop it did so "without knowing the context and to whom these numbers belonged".
"In 2002, when the family (including OBL's wives) moved to Peshawar, Kuwaiti was with them and this is where OBL joined them - in mid-2002".
From here they moved to Swat where Osama was visited by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
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