Bin Laden Dead

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#41

American helos fly into Pakistan; wait while a long firefight occurs; one flies out of Pakistan; and neither is detected or intercepted by Pakistan. Pick one of the following as the most likely.

  1. Pakistan, despite being a nuclear power, can’t identify intruders into its airspace nor react in time to respond to one of them escaping after a noisy firefight.

  2. American helos are so sophisticated that, despite a 50% failure rate on this raid so far as the downed helo is concerned, Pakistan couldn’t detect or intercept them on the way in or out.

  3. Pakistan let it happen.

#42

Or
3a. Pakistan were told it was happening and were made very aware of the international political fallout if they stopped the US going in after Bin Laden.

#43

Or

3b. It suited Pakistan to have America deal with the bin man so that the Pakistani government got rid of a figurehead which caused local problems for it from its Taliban etc elements.

Both 3a and 3b bring us back to 3 as the ultimate action, or inaction, by Pakistan.

#44

Mainly 1 & 2, with some of the subsets of 3. I believe Pakistan’s security forces are beset by heavily factionalism hindering a coherent response to anything, including India…

#45

Good point, well made. 3 would be the choice i’d go with.

#46

I don’t think that the Pakistan were told abuot the raid, for the simply reason that every time it happened in the past nine years, Bin Laden has cleared off… I don’t think it may be a coincidence that, the first time the US did all by themselves, they has caught him…

#47

The US did use some new helo’s that were of stealth technology and quieter.The US asked for the tail section back but Pakistan refuses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-raid-pakistan-hints-china-peak/story?id=13570573