Reply #35: I don't think he had the choice to "scram." [View All]

I think he was ill and perhaps under someone's protection.

It is also possible that he was killed because Wikileaks would have caused people to question whether, in fact, we had made a deal with someone to just leave his surveillance up to Pakistan.

There are a lot of possible explanations here. Yours is only one.

Think how embarrassing it would be for the US government if we were to learn that the Bush administration found out where Osama was and made a deal that Pakistan would watch him or even take control of him and we would stand by?

I have been trying to understand the reaction of the leaders of the Bush administration. They act as though Obama's killing Bin Laden was a double-cross of some sort, as if they are being cheated out of credit for their work.

I'm looking for an explanation for that reaction.

Of course, we will never know. But I would be cautious about adopting the assumptions you are adopting. There are too many other possible explanations.