WRONG ANSWER PAKISTAN - for readers with military or law-enforcement background -- you will understand this clearly. What element was missing inside the compound during the attack ? GUARDS : Those on-site to protect him. Wife, kids, 2 couriers, and his son are not guards. The compound was walking distance to Pakistan's military academy, sticking out like a sore thumb, with retired Generals living in the neighborhood. While it may prove he had exterior compound look-outs keeping an eye for unwelcome visitors, he lived there for an unknown period of time with the benefit of PROTECTION. I will leave it to readers of this blog to think about who that protection came from. Think now..... who was his neighbors.....???
Remember the old Godfather line. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Well it may be kind of like that. I find it hard to believe that the Pakistani Government did not know that arguably the most wanted man in the world was staying in a mansion in a suburb of the capitol city near the nations military academy.These are not stupid people and to under estimate that would be a mistake. The U.S. Government got their man anyways. Mission Accomplished. (No really this time.) The question is what is going to be politically efficient at this point. We have a tenuous foot hold in Pakistan. That's better than nothing. We should not pull aide and leave. We still have a great deal of work to do in that part of the world. Isolating ourselves from Pakistan would be unproductive. I understand the anger, but it's a question of what is strategically expedient for our country.
lara logan was thrown to the mob by cbs,who now shamelessly parade her as their tough little girl bravely soldiering on
Shame on scott pelley and the rest of the hypocrites hoping she will be attacked again to grab another headline!
If they did know then they are liars and we should cut all aid. If they didn`t know then they are idiots and we should cut all aid. We could really use the money our government spends to support our enemies to fix our own country.
Muslims have no qualms about lying to 'infidels' if it suits their purpose.
It's in their holy book the Koran that lying is acceptable.
It's called "Al-taqiyya." The Pakistanis are liars.
Now that Osama is dead, what will be the administrations excuse for sending billions to Pakistan? Watch, they will come up with reasons to keep borrowing money from China to send to muslims and continue to pass the debt onto the American childen who can't yet vote.
First of all, we weren't in Pakistan for the sole purpose of getting bin laden.....we are there pursuing high-level members of the Al Qaeda terrorist network......so just getting some retired leader of Al Qaeda, doesn't mean our job is done there.....since Pakistan and Yemen are areas Al Qaeda has fled to.
You have a pretty narrow view of reality.....this was never about 1 person, it's about destroying and dismantling several terrorist groups.
Jaycee Duggard was held captive for decades in a tent complex in the backyard of a home in a residential area where she was abused and forced to bear a number of children. All of this while her captor was being visited by local officials whose job it was to ensure that he was not doing exactly as he was doing right under their noses. No neighbors ever reported anything unusual... And this happened right here in the U.S... Do we say, the FBI and CIA must have known about this?
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Shame on scott pelley and the rest of the hypocrites hoping she will be attacked again to grab another headline!
Abbottabad is a garrison (military) city. That means that OBL living there would be like him living in the burbs of West Point or Fort Bragg.
Of course they knew, and it's time to call them out.
It's in their holy book the Koran that lying is acceptable.
It's called "Al-taqiyya."
The Pakistanis are liars.
Just like at the Time Square Mosque, "it's for peaceful purposes"....Kitman and Taqiyya.
You have a pretty narrow view of reality.....this was never about 1 person, it's about destroying and dismantling several terrorist groups.