Many questions, few answers on how much Pakistan knew

(CNN) -- What did Pakistan know?

That question is high on the minds of many, after a small team of American forces stealthily flew into the town of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden -- all without telling Pakistani authorities, at least until U.S. forces had left the country with the al Qaeda leader's body.

According to U.S. officials, the United States decided not to trust Pakistan in advance with sensitive information on bin Laden's whereabouts. What remains unclear is what Pakistani authorities knew about his presence down the street from a major military installation and just 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital of Islamabad.

A Pakistani intelligence official said Monday that information on bin Laden and the people in the compound where he stayed "slipped from" its authorities' "radar" over the months. The official claimed, while in Abbottabad, bin Laden had an "invisible footprint" and wasn't in contact with other militant networks.

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Yet some in the United States have suggested that Pakistan -- like Sudan and Afghanistan before -- may have harbored bin Laden, believing that someone in power there knew where he was and seemingly did nothing about it.

"I think it's inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time," White House counterterrorism adviser Tom Brennan said Monday. "But I am not going to speculate about what type of support he might have had on an official basis inside of Pakistan."

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