Osama Bin Laden is dead.

[DirkFTW]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

I'm thinking what with helicopters and explosions and gunfire and all that right in the heart of a reasonably a fluent and heavily military community, somebody gets on the phone and calls somebody else. It's a long ass way from Islamabad back to the border, so at some point you figure the Paks might scramble a couple of jets or something like that.

Apparently they did scramble jets, but they didn't get to the choppas.

[Big Boy Laroux]

Originally Posted by DirkFTW

Apparently they did scramble jets, but they didn't get to the choppas.

Hadn't heard this portion yet (from article you linked):

"One possible complication: While CIA contractor Ray Davis was in the Pakistani prison there were concerns about his safety were this mission to be conducted.

Davis’s March 16 release cleared that possible obstacle to the operation -- a kill mission, with the clear objective to kill bin Laden."

That does certainly help to explain the delay in executing this mission, of the intel has existed for some time.