The 2011 raid leading to the death of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has once again become the centre of controversy.<br /><br /> The White House and CIA have denounced as “utter nonsense” a report which diminishes what has arguably been depicted as President Barack Obama’s greatest foreign policy success.<br /><br /> White House: Seymour Hersh story on bin Laden raid "riddled with inaccuracies" http://t.co/wmoBS1jPe6— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) May 11, 2015<br /> <br /><br /> It has been claimed that both the US and Pakistan collaborated closely on the mission and hatched a cover story afterwards that said that Washington had acted unilaterally.<br /><br /> Pulitzer Price winning journalist Seymour Hersh who was writing for the London Review of Books, alleges that instead of it being a secret risky US operation, two Pakistani generals had known in advance and facilitated raid.<br /><br /> After the raid President Obama spoke to the nation that night, announcing that US special forces had conducted a daring attack without the