Besides a high ranking Pakistani officer living 50 yards away, we're now also discovering that US troops had been stationed at the military academy a few years ago. It's really time to close the chapter on US military involvement in that region. Besides not being able to afford it, bin Laden is dead so let's move on and quit throwing good money after bad. It was ridiculous enough to keep spending money with the corrupt Afghan government and now it's increasingly clear that any money spent with Pakistan is a waste as well.
If Washington is eager to cut spending for middle class needs in the US to help fund this, there's something fundamentally wrong with the system. The Guardian:
US forces were stationed just a few hundred yards from Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in October 2008, according to reports within the WikiLeaks embassy cables.
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 US soldiers were due to perform a routine posting "training the trainers" of Pakistan's 70,000-strong federal military unit, the Frontier Corps.
