Meengla
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Good point!if it was staged, it would be more easy staging in Afghanistan.
They could have invented Bin Laden is moving to Afghanistan or something like that.
Since the first day Taliban and even Bin Laden denied any link to that.
Bin Laden HAD to deny the link to 9/11 because that would put his hosts Taliban in great danger. After 9/11, Hamid Mir interviewed BL and ended up with that conclusion.
But 9/11 was Al Qaida's own sole doing. I don't think the Taliban govt of 1996-2001 had any interest in geopolitics. They were content to rule Afghanistan and were unable to route even Ahmad Shah Masoud in Panjsheer Valley by the time 9/11. I think Al Qaida thought by killing Masoud, just before 9/11, the Taliban would be more obligated to the Al Qaida--but that's just my own conjecture.
Look: The raid was real but there was absolutely no official patronage of Bin Laden by the Pakistani govt. $25 or $50 million is too much a prize to kept hidden for so many years in a poor country like Pakistan. As Rumsfeld said, if one officer would know then another and then another. But Americans used the raid to further their 'Do More' pressurizing Pakistan, which was basically to goad the Taliban into givng major concessions to the ANA govt. in Kabul.