By now, you are probably worn out from all the speculation about
the actual events in Pakistan that claim the death of the public enemy No 1. No
photos of a dead Osama bin Laden, burial at sea, instant DNA results and
changing versions with every new news report gets old quickly. The claim that a
treasure chest of intelligence was secured during the raid, conflicts with
killing the main man who knows where all the buried are buried. Capturing him
alive for interrogation would maximize the intelligence quest, if that were the
real goal.
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