Leaked Abbottabad Report

[BruceVC]

Of all those muslim countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan seems to be the ones having a race to the bottom of cultural development. 

 

...and those guys have nukes :-/

 

Well luckily Afghanistan doesn't, that would be worse than Pakistan having Nukes

[AGX-17]

 

So, if he fled with the complicity of Iran then it would make the Iranian-AlQ nexus a bit more credible. I seem to recall the notion being rejected as bunkum a while back. Much like Syrian WMD.

Yeah, Persian Shia and Zoroastrianists support  ALQ Salafi Arabs. 

 

Considering there were only 25,271 Zoroastrians on record in Iran as of the 2012 census, I don't think they register as a factor.

[Wrath of Dagon]

 

Considering that it's well known Pakistan sponsors the Haqanni network in Afghanistan, any treachery on their part shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

 

It shouldn't be, but what is their motivation? It would seem pointless when they receieve so much money from the US. As far as I know they get nothing from their (indirect) operations in Afghanistan. Also, if we all know that at least large parts of Pakistan including the ISI are either ignoring or actively working against US interests, why does the "alliance" continue?

 

They see it as giving them leverage in Afghanistan, especially once the US leaves, as has been mentioned. As far as the "alliance", US needs a supply route into Afghanistan for one thing. And I guess we'd rather have some influence than none at all.

And why was the US so slow to act on their Pakistani intelligence? The report made clear that the US had good evidence already in 2010 that OBL was inside that building.

Cynically I could suggest they were waiting until closer to the election, but perhaps they did have legitimate intelligence operational reasons.

[Walsingham]

Zero Dark Thirty makes the case that although they knew some bad dude was in the building they couldn't prove it was OBL <sic>, and they were understandably nervous about the incursion. Makes sense to me. That mission had a lot of moving parts, so to speak.