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2011-05-22 India-Pakistan

'CIA mole guided' SEALs to Osama bin Laden

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Posted by tipper 2011-05-22 11:27|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 it was our man in the ISI

Posted by Frank G 2011-05-22 12:03|| 2011-05-22 12:03|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Is it possible we're smart enough these days to deliberately leave something like this behind just to mess with them?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-05-22 12:15|| 2011-05-22 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 it was our man in the ISI

Yep. Codenamed "Gul."

Posted by PBMcL 2011-05-22 12:46|| 2011-05-22 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 As much as I would love to know exactly how the raid went down, I shouldn't know the operational details that would compromise the chances of success of future missions.

If we did have somebody in there, I wouldn't want to make the bad guys aware of it and thus either cut short his usefulness and/or his life.

A lesson I try to pound home to my kids is that just because you can do something, it doesn't mean that you should do something.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2011-05-22 12:51|| 2011-05-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Leaving that information behind does sound like they are being messed with. The impact on those connected would be interesting. I'd bet they are in seclusion and very paranoid.
Then "just because you can do something, it doesn't mean that you should do something". That's a keeper.

Posted by Dale 2011-05-22 14:37|| 2011-05-22 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh please. It took the Pakistanis weeks to find a detailed document left behind? Total bullshit. It took them weeks to manufacture something that might pass the smell test and allow them to plausibly deny that the Americans have been all over this place for months without them having a clue.

Where else are the Americans now? Maybe in your cell towers; maybe in your air base; maybe in your new nuke reactor; maybe in Moola Omar's dirty laundry room. Don't have a clue?

Ok, then make up some shit so no one gets too worried about it, and any troublemakers can be rounded up and shot as 'moles'.

Posted by rammer 2011-05-22 16:01|| 2011-05-22 16:01|| Front Page Top

#7 "unless US drone technology is far more sophisticated than hitherto realised."

Try US technology is far more sophisticated than hitherto realised.

Posted by 746 2011-05-22 20:09|| 2011-05-22 20:09|| Front Page Top

#8 It details where they lived in the compound and when some of them arrived. It also suggests bin Laden had fathered twins in the compound. It refers to "two unidentified children" born this year to his youngest wife Amal, 28

The link between Ancestors.com and the CIA is finally revealed! I thought Val Plame was in charge of sanitizing the site prior to extraction? Oh well, it will all come out in the book.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-05-22 20:22|| 2011-05-22 20:22|| Front Page Top

#9 REHMAN MALIK believes the US did have a mole = inside info on OBL before the raid.

Osama's followers, etal. will likely blame PAK Officials + Islamabad in general, espec iff the same are going to continue insisting they knew or were aware of the Abbottabad operation.

E.G. BHARAT RAKSHAK > DAWOOD [Ibrahim's] KARACHI HOME GUARDED BY PAK [Army]RANGERS, as well as being monitored by PAK ISI.

Since OBL's death at Abbottabad, Dawood repor now extra-cautious. e.g. repor may cancel his personal appearance at his Son's wedding reception.

EITHER THAT OR SHOW UP IN DISGUISE + MASSIVE COVERT SECURITY???

["HOGAN'S HEROES" SGT SCHULTZ here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-22 23:05|| 2011-05-22 23:05|| Front Page Top

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