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Report: Pakistan Oblivious to Bin Laden

Also reveals he wouldn't go outside.

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Ton Koene / ZUMA Press

After a year and a half of investigations by an independent commission in Pakistan, the group has concluded that no one in the town where Osama bin Laden was hiding knew he was living there. It also reveals that the al Qaeda leader was too afraid to step outside into his own courtyard after a local girl recognized him. Bin Laden was killed by the U.S. in a town 30 minutes from Pakistan's capital, which was a huge scandal for the government. A senior government official isn't as impressed with the findings, saying, “At the end of the day it really doesn't tell us much more than we already knew.”

Read it at The Daily Telegraph

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