 In 2007 , the Afghans specifically identified two Al @-@ Qaeda safe houses in <unk> , a town just miles from Abbottabad , leading them to believe that Bin Laden was possibly hiding there . But Amrullah Saleh says that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf angrily smashed his fist on a table when Saleh presented the information to him during a meeting in which Afghan President Hamid Karzai also took part . According to Saleh , " He said , ' Am I the president of the Republic of Banana ? ' Then he turned to President Karzai and said , ' Why have you brought this <unk> guy to teach me intelligence ? ' " 
