CBS radio news was strongly implying this morning that the Pakistanis, rather than helping on this op as they were claiming, were complicit in Bin Laden's presence. The neighborhood in which the compound was located is apparently the choice retirement community for Pakistani military officials, the site of a military academy and a few other things I can't recall now that made it pretty clear that this was practically a government town. At least one consultant they interviewed said that there was no way the Pakistani government couldn't have known Bin Laden was there from the day he moved in, and that the place was al-Qaeda from the day the compound was built. Any claims that they helped out on the intelligence or operation appear to be strictly CYA action.
ETA: Oh, and they were reporting that the body has already been buried at sea -- partly to prevent the creation of a shrine to a martyr, and partly (in all seriousness) to comply with Islamic requirements for speed of burial (it would take too long to find a country willing to take the body, or so it was claimed).
ETA2: Gah. I know the difference between "implicit" and "complicit", really I do.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
ETA: Oh, and they were reporting that the body has already been buried at sea -- partly to prevent the creation of a shrine to a martyr, and partly (in all seriousness) to comply with Islamic requirements for speed of burial (it would take too long to find a country willing to take the body, or so it was claimed).
ETA2: Gah. I know the difference between "implicit" and "complicit", really I do.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.