Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'. Again.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Hmmm - this article, via informationclearinghouse, claims to be quoting a BBC report, the original of which seems to have disappeared.

So, I offer it without being able to vouch for its authenticity:

Adding further support to the notion that Pakistan was in on the mission, a number of local residents have confirmed to the BBC that they were visited by Pakistani army personnel two hours before the attack commenced, ordering them to switch off the lights inside and outside their homes and instructing them to stay indoors until they were informed it was safe to come out.

The report goes on to add-

Gen. David Petraeus paid an extraordinary visit to Islamabad on April 25," said a senior military official said. The official said Petraeus held a one-on-one meeting with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan's army chief of staff, in which they discussed the details of the operation.

The next day, Pakistan's top military body the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee held its quarterly session, which was attended by Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the country's intelligence chief, who is not a regular member of the body. Pasha had visited the United States to meet with the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, on April 11."

General Petraeus, who is preparing to take over as CIA Director, has yet to confirm or deny the report.