Turns out Tora Bora may not be the only time US troops could have nabbed Osama.
Wikileaks documents show that US troops were training Pakistani anti-terrorism forces in Abbottabad in October 2008. They were within a few hundred yards of Osama's compound.
The revelation that US forces were so close to the world's most wanted man in 2008 comes after material from the Guantánamo files suggested the US may have received the intelligence that led them to Bin Laden as early as 2008...
The information about the US troops is contained in the account of a meeting in Washington between the-then US deputy secretary of state, John Negroponte, and Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, discussing security co-operation and concerns across the country...
The cables show the town, 35 miles north of Islamabad, also served as a distribution hub for US and UN aid in the wake of Pakistan's 2005 earthquake.
President George W. D'oh! We had troops crawling all over that place.
And Republicans want to put another of these morans in charge to replace Obama?
Are they nuts? Oh yeah. I forgot. They are.