The Chicago Trib is reporting [1]:
“The Bush administration, deeply concerned about recent assassination attempts against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and a resurgence of Taliban forces in neighboring Afghanistan (news – web sites), is preparing a U.S. military offensive that would reach inside Pakistan with the goal of destroying Osama bin Laden (news – web sites)’s Al Qaeda network, military sources said. “
Hmmmm.
Wouldn’t such details be kept under wraps until the attack was underway? Not sure about this one.
I’m not overly sure this wasn’t planned by the Administration. I don’t know, but consider the scenario with this question:
If you wanted to get BinLaden to expose himself to our intel people without causing a great deal of bloshed, how would you do it? One simple way would be to fake a message that a raid was going to take place where we thought him to be.