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>>>My heartfelt thanks to the watchers on the wall.
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>>But why do all that ?? Since they knew where he was, why they did not simply arrested him more quietly and alive ?
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>He had no intention of being taken alive. It was well known his own bodyguards had instructions that was not to happen.
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> "Arrested him more quietly" ??? are you serious. By whom -- Pakistani police? The UN? Do you really believe *anyone* in Pakistan was told that this was going to happen? I'm sure if they could have taken him alive they would have ( perhaps they did <s> ) but the important part of the mission was more than his dead body ( or whatever body parts are now on ice in Langley )

No, by the same commandoes, but dressed in civilian clothes going there by land, during the night without making way to much noise.
I bet you they could have arrest most of them alive. Then take them into custody etc etc.


>Intelligence agencies and especially the portions of them that do stuff like this, are not in the business of public relations - except in that is serves their purposes. Information will be very structured and very controlled. And they will probably never mention what they learned in 8 months of knowing he was there and who in Pakistan was enabling him, and what information they gathered in the compound.

Does that beats, how much could they learn had they arrested them alive ?