Claims like “It is next to impossible to believe that bin Laden would have risked hiding out next to Pakistan’s West Point without inside help.” are attractive, from afar it seems obvious that, well, if he was in the same city as the army academy, in a compound only 850 metres from the academy gates, they must have known he was there right?
OK, why? What mechanism would have made the Pakistani Military aware of his presence?
It’s Friday in Pakistan. Are Pakistani cities burning yet?
This is a snark on how we’re supposed to tiptoe around Muslim sensibilities.
Question: How much of the military aid money we’re giving to the Pakistani government is going to the Taliban and other terrorist groups? Also, how much is this aid as a percentage of Pakistani GNP?
Note that Abbottabad is a lot closer to Kashmir than to Afghanistan. Osama traveled well over a hundred miles into Pakistan without getting noticed?
I suggested on another blog that Osama learned his hide-in-plain-sight skills from the Coneheads.
A stranger moves into town, builds a residence much larger than the neighboring homes, one with a ten foot wall topped with barbed wire, AND NOBODY NOTICES?
If I ever decide to become a recluse, I’m moving to Pakistan. I could build freakin’ Arecibo without attracting attention from the locals.
I’ve seen enough barbed wire-topped fences and walls in California, that no, this wouldn’t be worth noticing. I’d notice that the building was damned ugly, but not because of the barbed wire.
As for traveling, I can think of a few things: cover stories, bribes, and disguises. If he walked around in a burqa, he wouldn’t be the first terp in women’s clothes.
Mentioning Arecibo is funny. H/T to Alan! People talk about how this building had no land lines, but the drawing shows two satellite dishes. Could one of them have been used for a data uplink?
If he walked around in a burqa, he wouldn’t be the first terp in women’s clothes.
He might be the first six-foot-four terp to get away with it in Pakistan.
Claims like “It is next to impossible to believe that bin Laden would have risked hiding out next to Pakistan’s West Point without inside help.” are attractive, from afar it seems obvious that, well, if he was in the same city as the army academy, in a compound only 850 metres from the academy gates, they must have known he was there right?
OK, why? What mechanism would have made the Pakistani Military aware of his presence?
It’s Friday in Pakistan. Are Pakistani cities burning yet?
This is a snark on how we’re supposed to tiptoe around Muslim sensibilities.
Question: How much of the military aid money we’re giving to the Pakistani government is going to the Taliban and other terrorist groups? Also, how much is this aid as a percentage of Pakistani GNP?
Note that Abbottabad is a lot closer to Kashmir than to Afghanistan. Osama traveled well over a hundred miles into Pakistan without getting noticed?
I suggested on another blog that Osama learned his hide-in-plain-sight skills from the Coneheads.
And the compound?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZVT5gGrSc
A stranger moves into town, builds a residence much larger than the neighboring homes, one with a ten foot wall topped with barbed wire, AND NOBODY NOTICES?
If I ever decide to become a recluse, I’m moving to Pakistan. I could build freakin’ Arecibo without attracting attention from the locals.
I’ve seen enough barbed wire-topped fences and walls in California, that no, this wouldn’t be worth noticing. I’d notice that the building was damned ugly, but not because of the barbed wire.
As for traveling, I can think of a few things: cover stories, bribes, and disguises. If he walked around in a burqa, he wouldn’t be the first terp in women’s clothes.
Mentioning Arecibo is funny. H/T to Alan! People talk about how this building had no land lines, but the drawing shows two satellite dishes. Could one of them have been used for a data uplink?
He might be the first six-foot-four terp to get away with it in Pakistan.