arguments. there will always be there will always be a renegade out there, there will always be people out there. osama not killed, on the loose. you just ignore these people. do you what you think is right by our norms and our standards. the raid was right. the decision to withhold the pictures were made by the president. p i think that the president has the right to make that call. do. do you believe pakistan or at least senior elements of the military or intelligence community of pakistan protected bin laden? you know, there was mike mcconnell, remember former director of national intelligence that said the isi has the department of hedging your bets. the pakistanis are our friends but also doubt us. we doubt them in return. you know, it is a kind of very inning relationship. we immediate them and we don t trust them. they don t trust us. what interests me, what s a rid tool me is that $25 million reward for the capture of bin laden, why no one in the neighborhood volunteered
aid money. this ends the free ride. the u.s. should now seek trustworthy allies in the region and use part of the foreign aid fund to boost homeland security. patricia writes, i saw a story showing pakistanis having a funeral, in quotation marks, for bin laden. and they were burning american flags. and we send them billions of dollars every year? tell me, what s wrong with this picture? elizabeth in ontario, nothing, sometimes it s best to just do nothing. u.s. doesn t always have to do something. u.s. has to stop acting out what everybody else wants it to do. sam writes, saudi arabia exports oil. afghanistan exports heroin and opium. and pakistan exports terrorism. for the pakistani military, terrorism is a revenue generating business with terrorists sold like a commodity.
world, osama who? they walked away from him. if you look at the afghans, pakistanis, muslims beyond, he has much greater popularity. the interesting thing about the arab world is it exported osama bin laden. then it was osama bin laden took these assets he had and his command of arabic, his birth in the land of the revelation in saudi arabia. he took these things on the road and they worked much more among more gullible westerners than arabs. arabs have grown cynical of him. they followed him and beat his drums. they were devoted to him. they thought he was their hero for the mid 90s until probably about three, four years ago and then walked away from him. not all of them because hamas signed an agreement with fatah for new reconciliation among the palestinians, they issued a statement condemning the u.s. for killing bin laden. absolutely. ham pass talking about the more dangerous thing, during street during street late
where bin laden was. if in fact that is true, where does that leave the others? they have at least 100 nuclear bombs. what do you do? you walk away from pakistan? what do you do? that leaves the united states in a hard place. the tribal areas of al qaeda and then trying to launch attacks. we saw last week by al qaeda against germany, the pakistani taliban in the last few days threatening to have revenge for his death by launching an attack in the united states. there s a still big terrorism problem coming out of pakistan and the united states really needs the cooperation of the pakistanis. so it s very, very difficult and now they are. will they allow the u.s. to have access to those that have been detained and being
but this one over here it is quite large. the wall is not as high but has the barbed with your. the thing that made bin laden s different the wall was just higher. probably twice that height. it also had the barbed wire at the top. this is as close as we can get to the compound. 500 yards that way. a police checkpoint here. army check point. police check point. police are coming down here. we are not going to be able to go any further forward. how come he was able to live here and get away with it and then intelligence services didn t pick up on him sooner, that is going to be a lingering question. no indications as we get an answer to it any time soon. nic robertson, cnn, close to osama bin laden s compound. severe doubt among some pakistanis that bin laden is really dead. even in the very city where he was killed. why are so many of these people so skeptical? watching the raid in real-time over at the white house.