US Troops Were Yards from Osama bin Laden House in 2008 – WikiLeaks Files

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Source: Guardian

US forces were stationed just a few hundred yards from Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in October 2008, according to reports within the WikiLeaks embassy cables.

The revelation that US forces were so close to the world's most wanted man in 2008 comes after material from the Guantánamo files suggested the US may have received the intelligence that led them to Bin Laden as early as 2008.

The US soldiers were due to perform a routine posting "training the trainers" of Pakistan's 70,000-strong federal military unit, the Frontier Corps.

Abbottabad is home to the Pakistan Military Academy, the country's version of Sandhurst in Britain, and trains officers from across the nation. The academy is streets away from where Bin Laden was tracked down and killed.

more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/03/us-bin-laden-hideout

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1. "Lieutenant, there's smoke coming from that house's courtyard."

"Hunh, that's a new one. See those walls? Look at that place. This whole damned country is filled with little warlords in little castles, all fighting each other. Some asshole burning trash might just be the least fucked up thing I've seen in this country, soldier."

The U.S. can't turn a country upside-down and shake it like a piggy bank. I'm not surprised they didn't investigate...if there wasn't any reason to investigate. Besides, I think it would be the assumption that in a town like Abbottabad that ISI knew every damned thing that was going on.

And they probably did, the fuckers.

PB

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Good post. n/t