WTF. Osama was hiding 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy.

[LLStarks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110502/ap_on_bi_ge/as_pakistan_bin_laden

Words just escape me. He was hiding in plain sight.

[Paradoxical]

1. His appearance was likely heavily altered.

Hiding in plain site sounds like a pretty good idea. The other option is hiding in a bunch of caves being blown to bits by US troops.

[ingac70]

2. How much can you alter a lanky 6'4" Arab? n/t

[Paradoxical]

4. Probably a lot. The guy was a billionaire.

I'm sure he could afford a good disguise.

[tinrobot]

10. Definitely not a billionaire

Millionaire, perhaps.

[Hannah Bell]

3. if true, it certainly does make one wonder.

[valerief]

5. Sounds like that academy was protection. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Everyone knows the Pakistani state apparatus was sheltering this fuck

That's why Obama wisely ordered the assault without notifying the Pakistanis.

[somone]

7. The Pakistanis knew

Their intelligence machinery is vast and pervasive. They knew where bin Laden was.

[immoderate]

8. Consider all the implications of hiding...

Find somewhere they won't look, perhaps...

--imm

[Contrary1]

9. Maybe not in plain sight...

Sneak him in under cover of darkness. And, he never ventures out. Big enough mansion, chances are no one ever saw him.

[formercia]

11. Hiding?

:rofl:

I'm sure the ISI knew where he was.

[seabeyond]

12. from what i have been hearing, footprints well hidin. he remained in compound

he did not personally meet with militants. why not? if no one sees him. hid, is hid

[agentS]

13. Doesn't surprise me ONE damn bit

I would be surprised if he was hiding out in the presidential palace. But instead he's a cushy 30 miles out of town.
It's like Adolf Hitler hiding out 10 years after the war in Langley Virginia.

[Odin2005]

14. The ISI was protecting him, I'm sure of it.

[gkhouston]

15. Oh, FFS, the Pakistanis have been turning a blind eye for years, and we knew it.

And they knew we knew it.