The town we are talking of is not your run-of-the-mill town, it is Abbottabad, practically a garrison town that houses the prestigious PMA. Several retired PA generals and also serving ones reside there. In other words, it is a high security area, where such a huge house with such high walls, barbwire on the top, with no telephone connection, where trash is burnt inside the compound and is not taken out, should make the security agencies curious. No, it doesn't imply presence of OBL, but these are more than enough signs to keep the Pak spooks interested in such a house in such a high security zone. Curiosity should have led to a probe and the probe to the final discovery of the true resident of the house.
Then again you have to be looking for signs to see those signs. If you are not looking then you would miss a speeding double-decker bus comming at you. The 'establishment' realizes this and that's why they are now feigning incompetence and speaking of 'possible human error'. What that establishes is that, detection of the identity of the original resident, which incidentally happens to be OBL, on the basis of such tale tell signs, was well withing the realm of possibility if due diligence was exercised. This, the excuse of incompetence, is, however, a convenient excuse. The alternative - that they were told from higher up to be not too nosy about that house - is deadlier.
Anybody who is arguing that detection was impossible is making his own kool-aide and drinking it too. The onus, is now entirely on Pakistan. That old legal adage is now applicable in reverse: Pakistan is guilty until proven innocent.
