The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Operations forces this week, U.S. officials said...The [total intelligence gathering] effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it. One former CIA official said Abbottabad was a much easier place for them to operate in than Quetta, Islamabad or Karachi would have been, and that OBL moving into a custom-made mansion was his biggest mistake.
| Wonder if the good Mr. Davis was working in support of this. Wonder if the Paks had an idea. Oh, wheels within wheels... |