[marron]

It was safe to say it was the bad guys. It would be interesting to know why we didn't shoot it down. We didn't need to know who was in a particular cave to bomb it, we would logically have shot down any helicopter that lifted off.

Its odd. Of course its right on the border I guess, maybe we weren't shooting down helicopters headed for Pakistan... I'm sure I don't understand why. Maybe the ISI had permission to evacuate some of its personnel? Which just happened to include the Bin Ladin clan?

[Loc123]

There can be 3 plausible explanations for the helicopter.

1) It was Bin Laden or high-ranking Al Qaeda. Only they would have the money for a helicopter.

2) It was the ISI. But why would they would be in a war zone flying a helicopter is unapparent.

3) It was a US Specops mission, but I don't see why our troops wouldn't be able to know that. The report I read said that the soldiers wanted to shoot the copter down. I also don't remember if the report mentioned the copter's build.