Meanwhile, I'm intrigued by one side story in this whole thing. The reporting on the OBL operation has quoted from various Wikileaks documents which use names that could well be the courier in question. Likewise, the city, Abbottabad, is mentioned in several of these documents. If OBL was more plugged in, the release of the Wikileaks documents should have been an OMG HEAD FOR THE HILLS!! sort of moment. The fact that OBL was still there tells you that one of these must be true:

- OBL's Internet-savvy operatives, who might have sorted it out, probably had no idea what city OBL was living in. Maybe they didn't even have the right name(s) for the courier. Organizational compartmentalization could well have done OBL in.

- OBL didn't actually have Internet-savvy operatives, so had no idea we were onto him.

- OBL's decision loop was too slow, due to the way he did the whole courier thing, to be able to act on the intelligence in Wikileaks in time. In other words, if we hadn't acted when we did, he might soon have had the OMG moment and gotten outta there.

- OBL may have known but may have deluded himself into believing that, after ten years, the U.S. wasn't going to go after him, particularly when he had parked himself right in the backyard of so much of Pakistan's military establishment.

My guess is that there's some measure of truth in each of these theories, but we'll never really know.