From DEBKAFile, a teaser for one of their pay-per-view articles:
The Osama bin Laden operation was part of a US-Pakistani-Afghan package for getting US troops out of Afghanistan by removing the root-cause of the war and bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table through Pakistan's good services.
http://www.debka.com/article/20906/
Hmmmmm....
We'll never know of course, but I wonder if OBL was on his way out anyway from renal failure and accepted his 'martyrdom'.

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