From: Phil Payne 

> "The Americans knew where he was hiding, as they know where Ben Laden is.
> But, because of electoral conditions, they had to wait for the best moment
> to announce the capture", he said.

It would not surprise me one little bit if they've known where he was for a
long time, but left him (obviously fenced at a distance) to see if they
could work out what he was saying to whom about what.  He may have been
snatched precisely when he was because some newspapers this weekend
reported he was calling his wife every week - anyone who knew that would
probably have known where he was, so they moved in.

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