Bin Laden mansion drew local suspicion for years – CSMonitor.com

Bin Laden mansion drew local suspicion for years – CSMonitor.com

OK, a little more information:

As Navy SEALs swept through the compound early Monday, they handcuffed those they encountered with plastic zip ties and pressed on in pursuit of bin Laden. After killing the terror leader, his son and two others, they doubled back to move nine women and 23 children away from the compound, according to U.S. officials.

Those survivors of the raid are now “in safe hands and being looked after in accordance to the law,” the Pakistani government said in a statement. “As per policy, they will be handed over to their countries of origin.” It did not elaborate.

Hmmmm.

And this choice bit:

Also unclear was why bin Laden chose Abbottabad, though at least two other top al-Qaida leaders have sheltered in this town.

Two other who have done whaaaa?!!! And we did what about it?

Things to make you say hmmm:

Last year, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton caused anger in Pakistan when she said she found it “hard to believe” that no one in Islamabad knows where the al-Qaida leaders are hiding and couldn’t get them “if they really wanted to.”

Things to make me sigh:

Critics of Pakistan have speculated that a possible motivation for Pakistan to have kept bin Laden on the run — rather than arresting or killing him — would be to ensure a constant flow of U.S. aid and weapons into the country.

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