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I know this for sure:
OBL was living in Pakistan under the protection of some Pakistanis for a long time (5+ years). All the news report about living in Afghanistan, caves and tribal borderlands was bullshit. The CIA or some American agency found out his location. US military killed him in a special forces raid
I do not know of any reason why Pakistani army generals would go along with US raid on OBL
How do you "know" this?
American govt claims? Tell-all memoires? NYT op-eds?
The US and its zombies "knew" Iraq had WMDs --- oops. The Gulf of Tonkin was a manufactured incident. False flags and other such trickery is a part of statecraft and intelligence.
We actually don't know anything.
As to your closing statement, the corrupt military leadership of Pakistan at the time had to choose between publicly acknowledging cooperation with the US (or tacit approval, at the very least) --- not easy in a part of the world where the US is, for some legitimate reasons, also considered a huge terror entity --- OR feigning incompetence. Tough call --- they unfortunately chose the latter and made the entire defense establishment look like a bunch of sleeping fools. Today, both the then-COAS and then-DG ISI are ridiculed and not respected in almost all current military circles.