I still fail to see what relavence this has, however, as you say, they had been spying since August and still had no positive ID. Quite remarkable then that they new who were the combatants even though they could not even identify the one person they were looking for...

This quote from the same article is interesting, isn't it?
"A senior Pakistani official said the dispute represented a clash between "Pakistani hyper-nationalism and American arrogance"."