Even if you believe that these passengers or their phones have survived the crash somewhere, modern smart phones don’t tend to last 5-6 days without a charge. It might be an issue with this phone company.

If the Air force did see the aircraft flying over Straits of Malacca, it might have gone on to overfly Sumatra towards the vast south Indian Ocean. Perhaps never to be seen again.

I thought India is moving away from vented interstage design. Is there any benefit of retaining this design?

No one disagrees that Bin Laden’s death was a bad thing.

But your entire argument is based on the assumption that Pakistanis knew about Bin Laden hence they should own up and let this doctor go.

Maybe they did not know about him. If the best intelligence agencies of the world could not find the WMD related infrastructure (reactor / processing plants/ laboratories etc) in Iraq, perhaps the all mighty ISI missed out on finding 1 person in a country of 180 million with porous borders and inadequate policing.

To my knowledge US has not yet found a smoking gun which points to anyone in Pakistani Govt, even after going through the material they found in that compound.

ISI and CIA have a history of joint raids to capture terrorists going back to the 1990s when they caught Aimal Kansi, a onetime CIA informant who went rogue and killed 2 CIA agents in Langley. Even the mastermind of 9/11 KSM was captured in a joint raid.
They had a tried and tested procedure for capturing these bad guys, the Americans for one reason or other went against it and that’s why Pakistanis are miffed. I personally think American Govt did it to extract the most political benefit possible, brave American soldiers going in to take out the man responsible for 9/11 etc.

There is no harm in listening to the other side of the argument!

You conspire against the state by being part of the plan which resulted in foreign assault helicopters landing hunderds of miles inside your country.

Bin Laden’s immigration status has nothing to do with this, by extention of your argument would it would be ok if I helped ISI in the assasination of one of the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in UK?

Few years ago we had an Afghan Warlord, accused of murder and torture living on benefits in UK, only when John Simpson of BBC tracked him down did the govt put him behind bars. Perhaps that means the British Govt was protecting him during that time and it would have been ok for foreign soldires to land in London to take this man out.

Or perhaps all my arguments are meaningless because these people were not wanted by a western govt and we all know only other countries are expected to conform to international laws and norms.

Bin Laden’s twisted policies doesn’t mean CIA can run secret ops in other countries and cry when get caught.

If every country started secret ops in other countries to kill people they didn’t agree with, than we would be in a dangerous place. Remember Alexander Litvinenko and Polonium! Had someone in UK helped FSB in that assassination Im sure they would be serving time somewhere.

The guy wanted for the deaths of more than 4000 Indians in the Bhopal disaster lives a peaceful and much more luxurious life somewhere in US. I wonder what Americans would do if Indians took him out.

If you help a foreign intelligence agency, without informing your govt, than you are a foreign agent. No ifs and no buts

Oh please, let me get my violin out .

This doctor was only interested in money, he didn’t have a clue about the target. You really think he was doing this because he knew he is helping to catch Bin Laden?

For all we know his next assignment might have been to spy on nuclear related installations. He is being treated as a traitor and a foreign agent because he is exactly that.

Getting this CIA agent out will cost US an arm and a leg.

For Pakistanis if they released this man than that shows everyone in that country that helping foreign intelligence agencies will get you loads of money and a cushy life in a western country.

What did CIA really expect Pakistan to do with a foreign agent? Any other country would have hanged him by now.

This is how I look at this,

Is it the most advanced UAV in US arsenal – Maybe No
Is it better than anything the rest of the world has – Yes
Should it be a concern for US, that they gifted some of their advanced, if not the most advanced technologies to their enemies for free – Yes
Will Iranians learn from it – Yes
Will these technologies proliferate into Chinese / Russians weapons – Yes