Jigs
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People forget one thing: the US was actively looking for bin Laden; Pakistan was not. All he had to do was bribe any overly-inquisitive local officials. It's unfair to blame Pakistan for failing to locate him since nobody in Pakistan was looking for him or had any reason to suspect he might be around.
You don't have to be looking for OBL to just look. When a large compound goes up around a military area people tend to look and if he paid off the right people then that would mean elements in Pakistani establishment are compromised. Again not good. To say Pakistan will take no flak for any of this is quite wishful aswell.
Also a interesting read
WASHINGTON: US officials were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardize the Osama bin Laden operation and “might alert the targets,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Tuesday.
In an interview with Time magazine, Panetta said his aides had 60 to 80 percent confidence that bin Laden was in the compound.
The CIA ruled out working with Pakistan on the raid because “it was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission: They might alert the targets,” Panetta said.
US had concerns Pakistan might jeopardize bin Laden operation – The Express Tribune