After 10 years, what helped give bin Laden away?

[Blue_Tires]

(Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's decade on the run after 9/11 may have come to its end in part because his large hideout reportedly lacked a phone and Internet connection -- an unusual absence likely to have drawn investigators' curiosity.

For a decade, his presumed choice of Pakistan as a hideout from history's biggest manhunt worked well enough. Experts speculated that he had sought protection from local militants in their remote mountain bastions, repaying the hospitality by helping their bloody effort to make Pakistan ungovernable.

In part, the effort succeeded because he and other al Qaeda leaders had been able to avoid the electronic communications that Western spies often use to track their targets.

The country, especially in its lawless northwest bordering Afghanistan, is home to many pro-al Qaeda groups believed to have been willing and able to provide human couriers to enable the world's most wanted man to communicate with his followers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-binladen-hunt-idUSTRE74153S20110502

[Drale]

1. How about

having a President that is not completely inept?

[PATRICK]

2. Because

(especially under Obama) they went into Pakistani for on site inteligence and contacts- for reasons other than to develop Pakistani nuke capacity(Cheney?).

[sakabatou]

3. Certainly wasn't torture

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Readers Digest Sweepstakes Mailer

Those guys find everybody.

[rucky]

5. FTW

[jwirr]

6. One article I read was that they followed on of his trusted curriers.

Then spied on the compound for months.