CIA chief Leon Panetta said the CIA had ruled out involving Pakistan in the operation , because it feared that " any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission . They might alert the targets . " Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that " cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound in which he was hiding " . Obama echoed her sentiments . John O. Brennan , Obama 's chief counterterrorism advisor , said that it was inconceivable that bin Laden did not have support from within Pakistan . He said : " People have been referring to this as hiding in plain sight . We are looking at how he was able to hide out there for so long . " The Indian Minister for Home Affairs , P. Chidambaram , said that bin Laden hiding " deep inside " Pakistan was a matter of grave concern for India , and showed that " many of the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks , including the controllers and the handlers of the terrorists who actually carried out the attack , continue to be sheltered in Pakistan " . He called on Pakistan to arrest them
Mumbai terror attacks
2008 Mumbai attacks
Death of Osama bin Laden