Five Questions About Bin Laden's Killing
1) Was there an informant inside the Osama Bin Laden compound? Might that explain why there's so much confusion in the White House account of the action - there is a fact they are anxious to conceal?
2) Was OBL in fact under some kind of Pakistani house arrest? Was he the prisoner of some kind of internal deal among Pakistani factions: the Islamicists unwilling to surrender him to the Americans, the Westernizers determined to neutralize him?
3) Did some person in the Pakistan state provide information to the US about OBL? Is that why the story is confused? Is that why the US seems reluctant to take strong action against Pakistan for harboring OBL?
4) Is the US government really as puzzled as it claims as to the identity of the OBL harborers?
5) If information about bin Laden was provided to the US by someone inside the Pakistan state, was it a Westernizer - seeking improved relations with the US? Or might it have been an Islamicist, looking to accelerate the US departure from Afghanistan and to hasten the day when Pakistan could reassert its authority over Afghanistan through its proxy, the Taliban?