operations. >> i know you spoke to u.s. intelligence official. i understand they told you accepting u.s. forces spew pakistan was considered at one point. >> it was, but there was concern about below back. there was so much anger in pakistan after the u.s. raid, unilateral raid that killed oh samba bin laden. there was also an issue of timing and the pakistani had forces in the area and so the decision was to tell the pakistanis and have them go ahead and carry out this raid. >> is it surprising to you, david, that u.s. intelligence seemed to be aware of their location and also that pakistan was so quickly able to mobilize? >> i'm not surprised. i think this was a lucky thing, intelligence wise. i think there was some kind of maybe an intercept or human source that told them they were moving the cap tifs. so, you know, i would say that was very rare. what's very rare is the pakistanis acted on the intelligence. and it's not clear if this