Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta

[nikhil25]

Re: Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta

@CM

I am merely pointing out that if we know where OBL was we also know where Atlantis is and who killed Kennedy. I am surprised you don’t get the allusion. What my post implies is that Panetta is prone to flights of fancy and there is no truth to it. If Musharraf knew OBL was in Pakistan and in Abbottabad he would have used that to his advantage to stay in power. The Americans would have backed him all the way if he had handed over OBL and the winds of democracy would have changed course.

Also what benefit do we get from protecting OBL? What do we get out of it? Be it the Military Brass or the political leadership.

who said the political leadership or even musharraf knew about it? there can be a variety of plausible scenarios/theories that entail people from some corner of the security establishment (deep state) harboring him. that could mean anything from ashfaq kayani for strategic reasons to ISI s-wing officers for ideological reasons. who knows? pakistan’s security establishment does all kinds of things that don’t make sense to a rational observer. why is sensibility and logic suddenly a requirement for plausibility? nobody knows the details but those details are surely not required to answer the basic question: is it conceivable that he was not abetted by parties within the security establishment? obviously not. it is farcical to claim otherwise.