Nevertheless, it raises more questions about how the world's most wanted man managed to shunt his family between cities that span the breadth of Pakistan, apparently undetected and unmolested by the otherwise formidable security services.
He heaped resources on his favorite wing of the armed forces, filled it with Alawite pilots, but also attached to it one of the most formidable intelligence services, led by loyal Alawites whose task it was to prevent any sign of opposition.
These competitors fear that Time Warner's vast cable network -- the nation's second largest after AT&T's -- combined with America Online's formidable Internet service, would shut them out.
He built a single health clinic in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx into a formidable social service network and used it as a political base to enlist support and gain political power across the South Bronx.
When Phil Schiller, Apple's senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, introduced MobileMe onstage at the WWDC keynote in June, the audience was wowed into believing that the most stylish hardware and software company had transformed itself into a formidable Internet service provider right before its eyes.
France has formidable foreign-intelligence services that spy on America, for economic and political advantage.
Russia's GRU (the formidable military-intelligence service) must be enjoying the humiliation of their great rivals, the snooty SVR (foreign-intelligence service), whose sloppy tradecraft seems to have let a prized asset fall into the hands of the enemy.
Since then, Amazon has expanded into other retail categories, such as food, clothing and electricals, and developed a formidable cloud computing service, its own television shows and an electronic personal assistant for people's homes.
Apple has to be keen to build a formidable streaming subscription service in light of the growth of that segment in recent years, and if Beats Music behind the scenes looks much more impressive than it might to outside observers (and Apple is especially privy to that information), than this potential acquisition makes a lot more sense.
AWS is already a formidable player in cloud services, as TechCrunch enterprise reporter Ron Miller explained this week, but Chime pushes it into the services space to help strengthen its grip on customers as competition increases.
