I don’t think so. He would have high-tailed it out of there to somewhere else if someone in his party were tipped off. He wouldn’t have to go far. Heck, just go down the road and commandeer a house at gunpoint for an hour or two. Our guys couldn’t loiter there.
All in all tho, I think this was kept air-tight, and that’s why we succeeded. And on the flip side, I think that OBL kept the number of people in his party down to the bare minimum, which is why he was able to successfully stay there for so long.
That makes me wonder something else — whether Obama was told about the raid before or AFTER it occurred.
Seriously, would YOU trust Obama’s White House with that information? I wouldn’t. And forget the State Department, that place is so full Of Muzzie moles I’m surprised they don’t broadcast the calls to prayer over the loudspeaker system.
OTOH, it is a great truth of life in the military that success mitigates a multitude of sins and it is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.