Robert Baer's take on this (a former CIA case officer, Time.com's intelligence columnist) is: "Abbottabad, I'll say it again, you cannot hide a foreigner in Ab

Robert Baer's take on this (a former CIA case officer, Time.com's intelligence columnist) is: "Abbottabad, I'll say it again, you cannot hide a foreigner in Abbottabad, for any length of time, without coming to the attention of the intelligence bureau first of all, which is Pakistani intelligence, and then ISI. [ISI is not a rogue element]. If in fact he was a prisoner there, [then] he was in fact a prisoner of the Pakistani Government, not ISI. So they knew he was there, certainly. Can you go, what was it, 7 years and hide in Abbottabad and [have them] not know? Anybody who's lived in Pakistan will tell you that every day there's sort of a knock on the door, it's the police, they talk to the chokidar about the foreigners, what are they doing, you know and the rest of it. You simply don't set up a compound as you would in, I don't know, the desert in Nevada and not have people notice. Impossible, totally impossible." Ref: Podcast linked from the article - http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/bbriefing_2015_05_11a_robert%20baer.mp3 http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/bbriefing_2015_05_...) at 09:55