Originally posted by TopHatter
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Wake up and smell the coffee. Bin Laden wasn't hiding out in some modest shack somewhere in the Pakistani badlands.
Either Pakistan's military and internal security apparatus was at least tacitly allowing Bin Laden to reside in Bilal Town or they are so incompetent and bumbling, that they had no clue he was living there for five years, as to defy all reason. So which is it?
First of all, you're comparing the United States to Pakistan? Really? Wow...just wow.
Could you have picked two countries that were more different?
Second, if an out-of-place compound on the scale of Bin Laden's suddenly popped up a thousand yards from West Point, I'm fairly certain there'd be some inquires, even of the most idle and casual kind, made about the residents...especially with their clannish secretive nature.
It's this new thing all the kids are doing called "Basic Counter-Intelligence".
Could you have picked two countries that were more different?
Second, if an out-of-place compound on the scale of Bin Laden's suddenly popped up a thousand yards from West Point, I'm fairly certain there'd be some inquires, even of the most idle and casual kind, made about the residents...especially with their clannish secretive nature.
It's this new thing all the kids are doing called "Basic Counter-Intelligence".
And yes, in terms of the ludicrous suggestions being made that Pakistani should have somehow just known or suspected this particular compound out of the thousands of other surrounding residences does make me compare the US to Pakistan to see how exactly you expected Pakistan to focus on this compound.
Yeah, such a minor thing, location. Well inside Pakistan, in a major army town, down the street from the Pakistan Military Academy.
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