How the official US position of supporting destabilizing rebels clashes with the position of rogue agents that support stable governments
An Electrifying Investigation of White House Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RQxpceTPPg A very interesting watch. So it seems that Pakistan (ie ISI) did know Bin Laden was in their country. Not only did they know, they actively protected him because the Saudis gave the ISI money to keep him alive (wanting to keep him as a living symbol of morale to their terror groups in the region). The US knew, or had high suspicion, that the ISI knew, or even possibly even protected, OBL in Pakistan. The likely reason that Pakistan looked the other way and allowed the US to operate uninterrupted in Abottabad, was perhaps due to the fact they know the US could shut down their nuclear program without much effort or time, and tried to make up for not telling the US that they had OBL contained in their own country. Pakistan received a sped up nuclear weapons program as a deterrent in the proxy war with the Russians in that region (USSR copycatted this in Cuba years later ...