CriticalThinker02
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I wonder my self too
I will sue the explanation of Mi5 deputy director who was asked similar questions after failing to stop the terror attacks in London.
(its virtually impossible tyo monitor every single suspect and track and deploy resources to every information most of which turns out to be a dud).
what I know and remember from that story is that Pakistan didnt have the scope beyond Pakistan to track and associate the courier outside the country. there have been many leads in hundred or thousands some leading to dead end and some to false information.
he was passed to CIA as a person of interest as he came and went out of the country. incidentally he was already known to CIA outside and was marked as a suspect. CIA didnt share that information with Pakistan and quietly monitored his movements in Arabia and Pakistan. even the compound had been searched many times before and was found to be empty it was one of the many places that Osama might have used and moved on in the past.
and then flown away in a chinook. Americans claim that they managed to fill in all troops and dead body and intel information in boxes exta in a single helicopter after one of that crashed. chinook is missed out in the movie and other claims about the raid.
Americans actually did tell ISI about the impeding raid. but this is never made public nor is the claim that Americans did confide with the military and civilian leadership but it was too afraid to take on Osma openly.
after the raid the SEAL toops were facilitated in their return journey and first were taken to Tarbela base and then picked up by Chinook and flown away.
this is the information which is conveniently missed out as it doesn't help with "suspect Pakistan narrative".
beyond embarrassment, Pakistan not only took the blame of the suspect and secretly supporting Osama but also took the brunt of the backlash of Al Qaeda and TTP when thousands of Pakistanis were killed in terror attacks throughout the year as a revenge by Al Qaeda.
I have wrote much on this repeatedly and quoted people of the area what they actually saw.
I have no interest in repeating any further or answering any follow up questions.
in short our leadership (civ/ mil) made wrong decision of not calling out American lies and failing to prove that they helped in the raid instead of standing accused of being Al Qaeda facilitators.
looking at the horrible and pathetic condition that Osama was living in that compound it is really ridiculous to even entertain for a moment that Pakistanis were getting money from him (he had few goats a vegetable patch, some hen and broken furniture).
Why didn't the Americans share any tangible evidence that they had actually caught OBL in Pakistan?