And that is the part where the Director has to make a dramatic decision. So the decision is left to the higher-ups, to bomb the place, raid it, or just keep waiting for more definitive intel. I don't think he was hiding from CIA cameras, he just knows he is so recognizable. But the mysterious inhabitant never shows his face. ![]() After tracking Sayed to a VERY suspicious compound in a city the CIA never expected Bin Laden to be, it is time to decide if this is really UBL's residence. Surveillance technology can find out from where he is calling his family (busy districts in the Punjab), but it is a lot more tricky to follow him in the middle of the crowd to the place where he lives. With a lot of push from our hero, they allot the resources to find him. And then they are lucky to find out he is not dead. The Agency is initially unlucky to believe erroneous intelligence saying Sayed is dead. Our hero figures that, wherever in Central Asia UBL is, the one thing he is sure to have is a courier. Information from detainees suggests Sayed is UBL's courier. Most of the story involves a CIA semi-fictional agent who by sheer determination and luck convinces the Agency that Bin Laden can be reached, and that they have a good idea of what men is the key to his whereabouts: Ibrahim Sayed, AKA Abu Ahmed Al-Kuwaiti. The killing of UBL is meticulously reconstructed, but only covers the last 30 minutes of the movie. Once we came back we were so involved with the story of the raid that we had to see Zero Dark Thirty (for the 2nd time for me, 1st for them). ![]() Three hours to go, three hours back, some pictures and a story to tell (the movie says the city is 45 minutes drive from Islamabad, but that was back in 2010 - not now!). Now some friends came to stay and the one place they decided they HAD to see was the empty plot of land where once stood Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. I've lived in the Muslim world for years and in Pakistan for a few months.
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