Pakistan has not been able to get its story straight about whether the ISI helped the U.S. pinpoint Osama's location or simply didn't have a clue where he was. Both claims ring false. As Panetta told Congress, "they're involved or incompetent." Either way, they've screwed the pooch:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/pakistan-faces-backlash-if-it-colluded-with-al-qaeda-1.1099395

Pakistan didn't dare "condemn" the unilateral U.S. action. It merely expressed "concern" and warned the U.S. not to use it as a precedent. Fortunately, there's been little public outrage about the killing of bin Laden because most Pakistanis don't believe he's dead. Hey, keep it that way. By all means, don't release photos of his body!

Pakistani involvement is so sketchy, it gives them all the elbow room to deny any involvement in assisting the US locate and kill Osama. An in the arab world, assisting the US to kill an arab looses face...something both the US and Pakistan are desparately trying to avoid. So the more confusing their role, the better they'll be able to deny any involvement. Besides, this operation was so secret Congress was left in the dark, so I suspect no one but the inner most circle will know for sure if Pakistan was or was not involved, and they aren't using meaningful sentence structure to explain any coherent details about who, what when, where and how.

Pakistan pays U.S. lobbyists to deny it helped bin Laden

By Tim Reid, Reuters, May 5, 2011 1:16pm EDT

WASHINGTON- Pakistan's Washington lobbyists have launched an intense campaign on Capitol Hill to counter accusations that Islamabad was complicit in giving refuge to Osama bin Laden.

Alarmed by lawmakers' demands to cut off billions of dollars of U.S. aid after bin Laden was found living in a Pakistani safe house for six years, President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered a full-court press to quell mounting accusations that it helped the al Qaeda leader avoid capture.

Mark Siegel, a partner in the Washington lobbying firm of Locke Lord Strategies -- which is paid $75,000 a month by the Pakistani government -- told Reuters on Thursday he had spoken twice to Zardari since U.S. special forces killed bin Laden on Sunday, and "countless" times to the Pakistani ambassador in Washington

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Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate subcommittee that allocates foreign aid, said on Thursday he wants a complete review of U.S. aid to Pakistan.

Leahy said he was certain that some Pakistani military and intelligence officials knew that bin Laden was hiding so close to Islamabad.

"It's impossible for them not to have some idea he was there," Leahy told Vermont Public Radio.

But Siegel, referring to claims by the Afghan government that Pakistan must have known bin Laden's whereabouts, said: "Must have known doesn't mean knew."

Siegel's firm was retained by the Zardari government in 2008 and has earned nearly $2 million in fees since then, according to Justice Department records. Siegel said his firm is paid $900,000 a year by Pakistan.

Since bin Laden's death, Siegel says he has been on Capitol Hill every day to promote Pakistan's position on the bin Laden killing, talking to congressmen, senators and their aides.