A British newspaper reported Tuesday that former President George W. Bush reached an agreement 10 years ago with his Pakistani counterpart that would allow unilateral American military action against al Qaeda's senior leadership inside the Asian nation if and when they were found.
The agreement -- which former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denies completely -- made it clear the Pakistanis would publically protest the any such operation, but take no action to stop it, according to The Guardian.
As CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from Islamabad, that may be exactly what happened last week when a team of U.S. Navy SEALs raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and killed Osama bin Laden.
"There was an agreement between Bush and Musharraf that if we knew where Osama was, we were going to come and get him," a former senior U.S. official told The Guardian. "The Pakistanis would put up a hue and cry, but they wouldn't stop us."
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