I don’t know how accurate, but most definitely plausible. Al Qaeda killers caught, and it would give ISI “plausible deniability”
So they just threw Osama under the bus so to speak?
Why not? A group of terrorists located globally could be a useful tool to a poor country with not a lot of other military weight. A bit like riding a tiger, but all politicians and their egos have a “fallacy of control” so its entirely possible, indeed likely.
Al Qaeda is likely a “jr. partner” with ISI though. I fully believe the idea that Bin Laden was a bird in a guilded cage. The ISI knew where he was, and in fact, kept him under guard in Abottabad.
I have seen it argued that indeed, that the Saudis or the Paki’s started to see Osama bin Laden as less useful, so his death doesn’t matter much any longer to them.