Almost a year on from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad – a military town a little more than 30 miles from the Pakistani capital Islamabad – and we are still no closer to understanding how he evaded detection for so long. A commission of judges and generals set up to investigate the matter seems to have spent as much time investigating how US helicopters avoided Pakistani air defences and whether the man killed in Abbottabad was really OBL, as it has on the crucial question of whether he was helped by state security security apparatus, as many believe.
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