Pakistanis Knew Where bin Laden Was? Say It Ain't So!

Ya coulda knocked me over with a feather. In a startling revelation, it turns out Pakistan's version of the CIA, the ISI, may have known of Osama bin Laden's whereabouts all along and was, hold on to your seats, protecting him. Hard to believe, I know.

"The cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistan last month, contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of Pakistan's intelligence agency, senior American officials who have been briefed on the findings say.

The discovery indicates that Bin Laden used the group, Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, as part of his support network inside the country, the officials and others said. But it also raised tantalizing questions about whether the group and others like it helped shelter and support Bin Laden on behalf of Pakistan's spy agency, given that it had mentored Harakat and allowed it to operate in Pakistan for at least 20 years, the officials and analysts said.

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But the cellphone numbers provide one of the most intriguing leads yet in the hunt for the answer to an urgent and vexing question for Washington: How was it that Bin Laden was able to live comfortably for years in Abbottabad, a town dominated by the Pakistani military and only a three-hour drive from Islamabad, the capital?"

This is a "vexing question?" For who? Next up, more vexing questions. Did OJ really do it?  Does Lindsey Lohan have a substance abuse problem? Stay tuned.