Deciding to go after Osama into Pak was not easy: Hillary

Washington : Ahead of the 15th anniversary of 9/11, former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said going after al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden into Pakistan was "not an easy choice".

I was part of the small group advising President (Barack) Obama whether or not the intelligence we had was good enough to take a chance, to go deep into Pakistan, to try to finally bring Osama bin Laden to justice.

It was not an easy choice by any means," Clinton said at an election rally in North Carolina. "These never are." "That's why who sits at the head of that table in the situation room has to be able to sort out fact from opinion, has to be able to ask the hard questions, pursue even the most difficult leads," she said yesterday giving an insight into the May 2, 2011 killing of Osama, the 9/11 mastermind, in a US military operation at his hideout in Abbottabad in Pakistan.

Her comments came three days before the 15th anniversary of the al- Qaeda attack on the twin towers in New York that killed more than 3,000 people, resulting in the US invading Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Trump, the 70-year-old real estate tycoon, claimed Osama would have been caught long ago had he been in power.