Far from dispensing with electronic devices and Internet connections as widely reported, photos of Osama bin Laden's  fortress-villa in Abbottabad, Pakistan, prove it was equipped with both and therefore vulnerable to penetration and surveillance. Puzzling questions include: Why did the US and Pakistan who must have known where he was not lay hands on him sooner?  Why was May 1, 2011 chosen for the operation? And why did US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tie it in with the Arab uprising?

US sources report that Osama bin Laden was buried at sea to avoid creating a shrine for jihadist terrorists to visit.

US sources disclose that Abbottabad, where a squadron of US Seals killed the al Qaeda leader Sunday night, May 2, is a Pakistani garrison town housing a large military base. His walled villa was just 100 meters away from a military academy and 120 kilometers from the capital, Islamabad.

The Middle East and North Africa are beset with two civil wars, have brought to power two military juntas, imperil seven regimes, including Pakistan and provided Al Qaeda with fresh fields to conquer.

Saudi Arabia has jumped ahead of Iran by obtaining the use of two Pakistani nuclear bombs or guided missile warheads. debkafile's Gulf sources believe the weapons are ready for delivery upon royal summons in Pakistan's nuclear air base at Kamra in the northern district of Attock. Already delivered is a quantity of Pakistan's Ghauri-II missile with an extended range of 2,300 kilometers. They are tucked away in silos in the underground city of Al-Sulaiyil, south of the capital Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia believes it now has the jump on Iran's nuclear designs by acquiring two Pakistan nuclear weapons which are held ready for delivery to the kingdom at a Pakistani nuclear base. This initiative represents the victory of the hawks in the Saudi royal house and encounters strong disapproval ...

The six-day delay in bringing Faisal Shahzad before a federal judge is only one of the anomalies of the failed Time Square bombing. Mounting friction between Washington an Islamabad was heard in US Secretary Hillary's sharp warning of "severe consequences" if a successiful attack were traced back to Pakistan.  debkafile: She may have been referring to a possible US military action against Taliban sanctuaries in N. Waziristan, Pakistan in an Obama administration policy review.

Iran introduced its nuclear program much earlier than previously believed. Ex-foreign minister Velayati now discloses that in 1986, he brought the first centrifuges from Pakistan to Iran aboard the private plane of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Revolution or Iran. DEBKA intelligence and counter-terror sources add that the centrifuges came with the first Pakistani technical specifications for building a bomb and designing missiles for their delivery.
 

The material was identified as Cobalt-60 in a special security briefing to Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh as he flew off to Washington to attend the nuclear security summit opening Monday, April 12. Indian police have cordoned off the market for an investigation into the source of the material which may be used for making a dirty bomb. Sunday, April 11, Prime Minister Singh exhorted president Obama to jointly combat terror emanating from Pakistan.

India believes the credit cards used by the Chicagoan terrorist Headley can lead to his handlers, but the US is denying their interrogators access to him or their inquiry. And Delhi now accuses Pakistan's intelligence of engineering the attack on Indian residences in Kabul.

Indian defense ministry circles reveal a huge order of three types of armed unmanned aerial vehicles they have placed with Israel for deployment on the Indian-Pakistan border in readiness for the possible supply of American drones, including armed Predators, for which Pakistan is pushing hard. New Delhi seeks to counter their potential threat with Israeli Heron MALE, Searcher-II and Harpy killer drones.