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Terror Networks
One unwary phone call led US to bin Laden
2011-05-02
Excellent summary on the hunt and the kill.
Posted by:tu3031

#9  "Bin Laden's body was washed and placed in a white sheet."

This is the burial custom for run-of-the-mill muslims, not the same as that for martyrs.
Posted by: gorb   2011-05-02 22:16  

#8  Dick Cheney, we all know who he is, accepts the story about Bin Laden being killed. I was very doubtful this AM but am also now convinced. 40 minutes of tapes from the kill site in Pakistan. And apparently real photos DO exist of the body and the burial.( there will be fake ones made since there are a lot of people out there who want such articles and the original have not yet been commonly released).

He's dead. Tried to hide behind a woman? I believe that. The statement given to the entire Moslem world: you want to be like Osama? We WILL kill you.

You dont like us, we dont like you. And we have the size and the resources and you dont. Say hello to Zarquawi ,Binny. And if the Palestinians want to dance? We wont forget you either.

Long haul, lots of patience and double tap standard.
As long as it takes, we wont let it go and we WILL keep on coming.
As certain as it gets.
Posted by: de Medici3489   2011-05-02 19:41  

#7  "Bin Laden's body was washed and placed in a white sheet."

I'd have washed him in pig's blood and tossed him naked into the drink, with a couple of barbells chained to his ankles and neck just to be sure.

But that's just me.

Anybody remember the "Highlander" series/movie? I've got a great fantasy - Osama bin Dyin' was an immortal, so he woke up underwater, and lived awhile as the denizens of the deep nibbled on him, before he finally succumbed to the pressures of the bottom of the ocean that crushed him like the cockroach he was.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2011-05-02 19:18  

#6  
Fox News now reporting the shots were a classic 'double tap'. One to center of mass, one to head.
Posted by: Parabellum   2011-05-02 18:28  

#5  Photoshop fake.
Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685   2011-05-02 18:20  

#4  A purported head shot of a dead Osama Bin Laden has been released across the web. Rather gruesome. Was hit right between the eyes, twice. Can be Googled, warning, graphic.
Posted by: Unating and Company3195   2011-05-02 17:52  

#3  In the ensuing firefight, Brennan said, bin Laden used a woman as a human shield...
Posted by: Unating and Company3195   2011-05-02 17:29  

#2  FTA: "Obama tapped two dozen members of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six to carry out a raid"

SOCOM "tapped", Obama authorized. He made a decision, it took him how many months?
Posted by: tipover   2011-05-02 17:27  

#1  In a secret CIA prison in Eastern Europe years ago, al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, gave authorities the nicknames of several of bin Laden's couriers, four former U.S. intelligence officials said. Those names were among thousands of leads the CIA was pursuing.

I would love to find that "water boarding" interrogation so hated by the left wing whackos lead to this information.
Posted by: Unating and Company3195   2011-05-02 17:23  

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