[Doogle]

next TO A MILITARY BASE

[cripplecreek]

Obama’s next war?

[al baby]

A safe place to keep him till Obama needed to get him for the distraction

[bigbob]

in a one milllion-dollar compound that was only built less than 5 years ago?

[OldDeckHand]

Just for comparison, 80K is roughly the same population as Boca Raton, FL - not a tiny city, at all, but not a huge city either. I doubt that there's very little that goes on in Boca that everyone doesn't know about in fairly short order, especially as it relates to who's living there. People talk.

It's just not believable that someone as ridiculously high-profile as bin Laden could live an a (by all accounts) massive and out of place gated compounded for five or six years, without MANY people knowing it.

[Sacajaweau]

Obama mentioned Aug 2010 has the first clue. It was just prior that Hillary spewed to Pakistan....(IMOW) I know damn well that you know where he is

[Harley]

If Pakistan officials knew he was there, they sure didn’t give him any warning that he was about to be taken out.

[PilotDave]

Gee, Bin Laden sure was stupid to be hiding there,eh? Didn’t change his appearance, stayed put for months, lived in a huge mansion that stuck out like a sore thumb. Yup, that’s how I’d do it if I was the most wanted man in the world and had unlimited funds. Does this really pass the common sence test?

[Marty62]

Makes one wonder if the CIA agent that was arrested by Paki, was really confirming OBL’s location. got ambushed by OBL guards?

[edpc]

What's to explain? A simple search of readily available information tells you everything you need to know. In 1984, Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden founded the Al Qaeda precursor, Maktab al-Khidamat. Incidentally, Azzam was a Muslim Brotherhood member. Who's surprised?

Once the Soviets left Afghanistan, Pakistan saw an opportunity to expand their influence in the region. They worked with what would become the Taliban and Al Qaeda to achieve that goal. The Pakis have been hip-deep in this for decades.

[Zakeet]

See also: Google Maps: Pakistani military academy and Osama compound

In order to appreciate just how hard the US has been scammed by Pakistan, you have to look at this map of Osama´s luxury compound, located just next to the Pakistani version of West Point. It´s literally just down the block from Bin Laden. The city (Abbottabad) houses numerous Pakistani military installations. It´s now obvious that Pakistan was on the other side all along.

Link to the Actual Maps

[NELSON111]

OK...I am going to point out the White Elephant in the room (not that someone else hasn't...maybe I just haven't seen it).

1st...I doubt seriously that BHO made this a top priority. What probably happened is that he stumbled bass-ackwards into some intel. He got lucky.

2nd....and now to my point...this guy was hiding in plain site. He's been there for YEARS. We have KNOWN he was in Pakistan for YEARS.

We did NOTHING. Bush did NOTHING. Obama did NOTHING. But...I expected him to do NOTHING. Bush...however...did NOTHING. Knowing now that he was hanging out in a mansion in the middle of a city. This is an EPIC intel failure.

The Bush admin was not hunting him like they should have been. They were not kicking over all the rocks...they were not leaning on POKISTON with all the weight of the US of A. If they had been....they would have puked him up like my cat barfs up a hairball.

[AliVeritas]

Exactly.

Where’s al-Zawahiri?

I also want to see the body.

How long does DNA testing take?

[maine-iac7]

Just a few yards 'down the road' from a major Paki military base - a new compound (built 2005) with 15'walls - in a rural area of the NWFP - 2 hrs drive off into the hinterlands from the city of Abbotabad _ see green area, bottom right.

His compound was 800 yards! from a major military compound? Seems like they not only had to know - but that the compound was built there for protection...

[OldDeckHand]

Not only does he live in a well-populated city with a military presence, the guy actually lives less than a mile from a GOLF COURSE. If you go to google earth and search bin laden’s compound, it takes you right to it. Considering it’s Pakistan, the city looks pretty nice, and his neighborhood is - dare I say - upscale.

Cliff May, from National Review said almost a year ago that he believed bin Laden was living in a “quite comfortable villa”. I guess he gets the prize.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266138/i-think-hes-quite-comfortable-villa-clifford-d-may

[cookcounty]

Obviously, you do not need an actual brain to be a Pakistani Army officer.

[Salvavida]

I lived in many third world countries, and I can assure you that a military garrison in such proximity will absolutely know the purpose of that compound. Local military commanders are VERY aware of their communities, much more so than U.S. counterparts.

In the words of President Bush: “If you are not with us, then you are against us.”

I hope we follow through with that policy. Pakistan has a LOT of ‘splaining to do.

[CodeToad]

Well, I believe Bush never let the military kill him for some reason. Every time the CIA or military got close they were told to back off. This is going down as a Democrat win and a Republican loss.

[Buckeye McFrog]

boy am I getting a bunch of very loud “told ya so!” from my Indian friends today

[lwd]

WHAT IF osama's compound were built with US aid $? That would be rich now wouldn't it? Weren't osama's bank assets frozen after 9/11?

/tinfoil