Seems more reasonable? So, based on literally nothing, just guess work, we're going to accept a different version of the story, for fun? Okay, well, it's true Pakistan was giving Osama Bin Laden refuge, and keeping it quite. Pakistan created the Taliban in 1994, and elements of the Pakistani government still supported the Taliban even to today. Osama Bin Laden was found .8 miles from the Pakistani Military Academy, basically the equivalent of America's Westpoint, and this was confirmed by the U.N. given the DNA evidence, and by observers.
The U.S. has violated Pakistan's air space numerous time's, with drone strikes, and with stealth aircraft, such as the B-2 Bomber, or now well known stealth helicopters (that flew under the radar and glided in at the last moment to avoid the super sonic crack associated with the helicopter, which, is a risky maneuver since one of them crashed), basically just modified Blackhawks, also using very low noise helicopter blades, which is considered a major intelligence failure that Obama let this information leak (to be honest, even I was stunned that such things existed, and I'm pretty up to date on stealth technology. It didn't seem possible that a helicopter could fly by without waking up Osama, but now there's actually some good data out on them).
It's probably likely by this point that Osama Bin Laden was not a key leader in the terrorist network, given that he was Old, in hiding, and had lived most of the last couple years in caves or away from the public. There's only so much leading you can do hidden in a secret compound in Pakistan, probably protected by old supporter's of the Taliban. So, all the ideas that he was old and close to death, that he was in Pakistan etc., doesn't really contradict the story at all.
The thing a lot of people don't seem to know is that the Taliban were created in 1994, by Pakistan's ISI. The Mujahideen, which were assisted during the soviet Afghanistan war by the U.S., were created around 1980, and fought until 1988, when the soviet Afghanistan war was over. Pakistan, 6 years later, created the ISI, and about 8 years later invaded Afghanistan in an effort to take it over, since Pakistan has always believed they should own the territory. Like Russia in Crimea, it was rather obvious that Pakistan was involved, and provided everything up to and including airstrikes and tanks in Afghanistan. Eventually, Pakistan was exposed, and rather than withdraw it's forces, decided to disown them, and left them there to take over the country. 2 days before 9/11, Massoud, leader of the Afghanistan Mujahideen and local hero, was assassinated by the Taliban, which signaled their effectiveness in taking over Afghanistan. According to the U.N., the Taliban had taken over approximately 90% of Afghanistan, a country never recognized as the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" and a small sliver to the north, known as the Northern Alliance, is where the Americans landed in Afghanistan and worked from in the beginning of the Afghanistan war, which was also where the Mujahideen were located.
He even is known for predicting an attack on U.S. and European soil, and said a few months before 9/11 "If President Bush doesn't help us, these terrorists will damage the U.S. and Europe very soon." There is a national Massoud day, and he's seen as both a Martin Luther King and a War hero, for uniting all of Afghanistan, and supporting woman's rights, which Islam historically is not as fond of.
So, what is this history lesson about? America did not create the Taliban, not even close. We also didn't create Al Qaeda. It was Pakistan. Other than a complete lack of evidence, there is plenty of evidence opposing the information. We tipped off Pakistan about our missions to capture Osama Bin Laden previously, and he mysteriously managed to escape. This time, we did not, and lo and behold, we managed to capture him.
Most likely, there were moles in the Pakistani intelligence agency that managed to keep him hidden for this long that still supported Pakistan's involvements in Afghanistan. That being said, he most likely wasn't held as a prisoner, but instead as a sort of Hero to the ISI. Not all members, mind you, the power struggles in Pakistan had been quite incredible. They fight the Taliban publicly, now, because of a new leadership, but it's been well known for years that large members of the government still secretly support them. They aren't really two-faced so much as actually having 2 different heads, and quite possibly even 5-6, given how extreme the faction splits are in in their country, that actually control the government. It's a pretty weird place to live, but, the main idea is, not only are none of these ideas substantiated with something like say, evidence, but even if they're true, it doesn't imply that Osama Bin Laden was a prisoner, since we know he was being assisted by Corrupt Pakistan leaders. We also managed to capture the courier long before the timeline of the Pakistani intelligence figure defecting, so we could have confirmed the information from multiple sources. We might just not have believed a walk in from ISI even if the story is true, so he wouldn't have been mentioned as the key asset for confirming Osama Bin Laden's location.
No real reason for a conspiracy unless you want one.
The official story seems to make sense, and the conspiracy theory story doesn't necessarily contradict the initial one, except for the whole, he was secretly supported by the entire Pakistan government and Saudi Arabia. For what reason would America have had to lie about this, for fun? It accomplishes nothing while giving the potential to be exposed one day, and takes away from the heroics of being the president in charge at the time who killed Osama Bin Laden. Usually government cover ups have some kind of objective in mind, like preventing the public from knowing about a toxic waste spill due to the money it would cost to clean it up, or secret brain washing programs that would leave a negative stain on the government, or even factions within the government hiding from the rest of the government, and existing only due to compartmentalization, like a single corrupt senator or something bank rolling some corrupt operation; Mitt Romney has billions, could maybe held fund an organization off the books, or even Obama with his billions in campaign money. I even created a story once about how marines intended to be used as a clean up crew were made from Environmentally Hazardous Containment units, who could quarantine an area, kill everyone inside, and do it all under the government's nose, claiming compartmentalization of things like nerve gas or radiation potentially leaking out as a reason no-one but them could enter; they also recruited and trained soldiers in what was supposed to be a high security prison, which is kind of an ideal setting, when you think about it, and also gave them access to people willing to murder others for no reason (I.E. bad people willing to do a bad job). Anyways, there's supposed to be some reason for the conspiracy. If they had no reason other than "the lulz", what would be the point of taking a risk to hide the truth when it really probably would gain nothing?
