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The neighbor who unintentionally "live Twittered" the raid said he heard just 3-5 minutes of gunfire. Believable for the 'hot' part of the action. One place I saw cited "38 minutes" on the ground rather than the less specific sounding "40 minutes." Time spent tossing the place, collecting the treasure trove, trying to figure out who was how amongst his survivors and whether to take them along. And most importantly, waiting for their backup ride to arrive.

The biggest shame was losing the capacity of the downed copter. Ideally we'd have left with everyone still alive and left the Pakistani's with nothing. The only way any Pakistani could have known what went down would have been if they'd already known HE was there. Work the data and make a couple rounds of follow up live or drone attacks before announcing HIS death and some of those Pakistanis would have proven their complicity in the interim.

"The neighbor who unintentionally "live Twittered" the raid said he heard just 3-5 minutes of gunfire."

I guess I missed that. I see no mention of gunfire. The tweets are very enlightening as far as timeline and other details though. 11 minutes from time of "hovering helicopter" and "huge window shaking bang". Then 46 minutes later reports "all silent". That "bang" is a little early in the timeline to be blowing the chopper.

"The biggest shame was losing the capacity of the downed copter. "

Roger that. Makes you wonder if they drilled with the same pilot and aircraft. No doubt we'd still be oblivious had we not lost the chopper. Probably why it took the WH so long to get their first BS story together.