Why Was Key Source on Bin Laden’s Courier Freed?

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Reuters has published its account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Like other versions of the story that have come out, this one says that the key information about the courier who unwittingly led authorities to bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound came from Hassan Ghul – an al Qaeda operative who was captured in Iraq.

Several key paragraphs of the story focus on the debate over the controversial interrogations of high value detainees, and whether those interrogations led to the intelligence that helped locate—and ultimately kill—bin Laden (emphasis added):

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