“Interesting. This has probably been answered somewhere, but how did Bin Laden know to move? It’s not as if we telephoned to say they were on the way.”
During the Cold War we never bothered to check on the political leanings of people in highly sensitive positions. We STUPIDLY thought that people would leave their Socialist politics at the door. Many (maybe most) did not, and fed the Soviets everything they dreamed of.
Likewise I REALLY DOUBT that we have a religious test for people at NSA, CIA, and related intelligence fields. So, without a doubt, Osama had plenty of people ready to tip him off and I’m sure they did.
It seems like a completely different country from the one where a neighbor wasn’t able to serve in the USN in the capacity he asked - volunteering for placement on a submarine during the Vietnam War after immigrating from Canada. His ancestors were from Russia, and this disqualified him, even though they were Mennonites, Volga Germans, who fled Russian wheat fields for Canadian ones.