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I didn't think he claimed that the OBL raid never happened, just that the backstory about how he was found was wrong.

It's above the fold on his LRB story: he claims that Pakistani ISI captured bin Laden, not the US.

... and then the US staged a raid to pick him up from the ISI.

And it was directed by Stanley Kubrick.

As bin Laden was holed up 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, it seems more likely that he was captured by ISI and/or the Pakistani army, as opposed to trying to hide from them there.

ISI dealt with bin Laden in the 1980s, and has good intelligence in the region bin Laden had been rumored to be holed up in.

It takes more of a leap of faith to believe bin Laden was hiding from the Pakistan military/industrial apparatus 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, than that some high officials knew he was there.

I can believe Pakistani intelligence knew where he was the whole time.

I don't believe they cut some deal to stage a raid where they came off looking like total morons for purported military aid that never came.

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