[jurnalkduo]

Oh, please.

The guy was living right under their noses...

Obviously.

Whether or not they knew it remains to be seen.

My inclination is that they did, that they couldn't do anything "official" about it without the massive population of Islamists getting up in arms and overthrowing the government, so they waited.

I think it's telling that the massive ADA umbrella that protects Islamabad from India's nuclear threat and invasion by India or Iran didn't () pick up the incoming flight of helicopters and that once the SEALs were on the ground they were allowed a full 40 minutes (and I expect they would have been allowed longer had they needed it) to shoot shit up, blow shit up, and exfil without ANY reaction from the Pakistani military or police.

Pakistan is surrounded by enemies (India and Iran) and they're fighting with India all the time.

If you were a Pakistani cop of soldier what would you think more likely, that when all that kind of shit pops off it's the American or the Indians?

I know where I come down.

Not that any of this is "likely" but if I were a Paki policeman or the kid pulling security at the gate of the military academy and I thought we were (even potentially) being "invaded" I probably would have informed someone, maybe raised an eyebrow, maybe headed to the sound of the guns.

Yet nobody did. There was no official response at all.

Strikes me as odd.

Either it's an exceptional fuck up on the part of everyone involved with Pakistan's internal and external defenses and law enforcement - or it was a coordinated effort to look the other way.

I also think it's interesting that one of the first things to come out post-operation was that NO, NO, NO, NO, NO - NOBODY in Pakistan knew annnnnything about this. No, really, we swear. Cross my heart and hope to die.

Really?

And Pakistan's response to a violation of their soverign airspace took two days?

Really?

No immediate condemnation? No chest beating? No playing to the Islamists?

Odd.