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		andrepd on Dec 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People Everyone wanted Bin Laden dead, but it still took a few years to manage that. So perhaps not as straightforward.

generj on Dec 23, 2016 | [–]

Not everyone wanted Bin Laden dead. Critically, the people he was hiding with and his organization as a whole very much wanted him alive. The people who actually surrounded him on a daily basis did not want to kill him.

pc86 on Dec 23, 2016 | [–]

How long between the time the CIA knew where he was (definitively) and the time he was killed?

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