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| Bin Laden's young daughter 'saw father shot dead' |
| 2011-05-04 |
| Osama bin Laden's young daughter has told Pakistani officials that she saw her father shot and killed by armed Americans, an official with Pakistan's spy agency said on Tuesday. The official, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject, said the daughter, whom he described as being 12 or 13-years-old, was one of eight or nine children in the house when a team of US Navy SEALs stormed the complex by helicopter, early on Monday. "We have no independent confirmation of Osama bin Laden being there or dying there except what we got from the daughter," said the official, a member of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. The official said that based on interviews with the daughter and others in the house, Pakistani authorities now believe that bin Laden had been living in the Abbottabad compound for "some months". The Pakistani official's comments came as new details emerged about the men who built the house and were also killed, and as Pakistan broke its silence and denounced the raid as a "unauthorised unilateral action" that "cannot be taken as a rule". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #18 TFB. F with the bull and you get the horns. Hope she learned that well watching the her daddy's brain splatter the wall out of the back of his head. |
| Posted by: The Other Beldar 2011-05-04 17:42 |
| #17 Is it bad that this came to mind? What a shame. |
| Posted by: Anon4021 2011-05-04 16:01 |
| #16 In all likelihood the Bin Laden group had prepared such a story in case of an American attack that would kill some but not all of them. Wasn't there an AQ training manual that gave explicit instructions on how to plausibly claim torture and abuse in captivity? If this should get the Seals into trouble maybe next time an |
| Posted by: Punky Thrusoque1295 2011-05-04 13:25 |
| #15 The official said that based on interviews with the daughter and others in the house, Pakistani authorities now believe that bin Laden had been living in the Abbottabad compound for "some months". Five bucks sez the neighbors' stories about the house go back more than a few months. "The daughter has reportedly told her Pakistani investigators that the US forces captured her father alive but shot him dead in front of family members." Someone ought to remind UBL's "daughter" that 1) UBL said himself he wouldn't go down without a fight and would not be captured alive, and 2) We have gun cam footage of the event. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-05-04 13:02 |
| #14 "The daughter has reportedly told her Pakistani investigators that the US forces captured her father alive but shot him dead in front of family members." If true, this could make things very ugly for our guys - at leasts sounds like murder. (Not that I mind, but ... it would complicate things.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-05-04 12:55 |
| #13 Are we sure its his daughter? 12 or 13 is old enough to be one of his wifes! |
| Posted by: Black Bart Phuling7750 2011-05-04 11:45 |
| #12 Is incest unIslamic? By the time Osama bin Laden was killed, he was down to only one of his five wives: Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, the youngest(29) and his rumored favorite. By the time he moved into his Pakistan mansion, Bin Laden had divorced one of his wives and three others had moved to Syria, according to ABC News, but Amal had remained with him. She had been given to him as a gift when she was still a teenager, and eventually had three children with bin Laden—a daughter (13) and two sons, who lived with them in the compound. On the night of the raid, Amal was in the bedroom with Bin Laden, and apparently reacted with fury to the Navy SEALs who had come to kill her husband. "She rushed one of the U.S. assaulters and was shot in the leg, but not killed," |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-05-04 10:38 |
| #11 Poor kid - but yes, what grom and TW said. Pakistani authorities now believe that bin Laden had been living in the Abbottabad compound for "some months". Like 60 or 70? |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-05-04 09:55 |
| #10 To put this in perspective: 9/11 was an attack on the scale of Pearl Harbour. Even the MSM saw it this way, see this at 1:01 for example. Breaking with historical precedent, the response was not a war on Afghanistan. There was no devastating conventional strategic retaliation against the Afghan nation and the Afghan people. Instead there was a very restrained military response that ousted the non-moderate Taliban from power (Powell wanted the moderates to join.) Western military is in Afghanistan to "serve the people", Afghanistan has received billions in aid courtesy of western taxpayers, same for Pakistan. Putting a bullet in OBL's head is an act of retaliation that is as precise as theoretically possible. There was no collateral damage. Even immediate neighbors were unharmed. And now I am supposed to give a sh*t because a bint (who never should have been born in the first place(*)) got her precious little feelings hurt? Am I supposed to condemn the Navy Seals who took out the guilty and risked their lives to protect innocents, including Pakistanis who happened to be OBL's neighbors? "The (9/11) dead included 8 children: 5 on American 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11, 3 on United 175 ages 2, 3, and 4.[19] The youngest victim was a 2 year-old child on Flight 175," These children are never going to be "12 or 13 years old". They will never experience Western mercy that will risk the lives of Western military in order to spare the innocent. 9/11 was filthy treachery, a filthy betrayal of Western hospitality, Western tolerance and Western generosity. If anything Osama bin Laden and his ilk and ,yes , Islam in general got off far too lightly. (*) In a just world OBL would have been killed during the 90's well before he could have fathered her. /rant |
| Posted by: Punky Thrusoque1295 2011-05-04 09:09 |
| #9 Tune in A&E on Thursdays for 'First 48' and watch a lot of kids who see their parents shot. Theirs usually were not a mastermind in the killing of 3,000 human beings just going about their daily routine. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-05-04 08:59 |
| #8 Cry me a river, indeed. Further comment not fit for printing. |
| Posted by: Boss Ulavith1461 2011-05-04 08:25 |
| #7 Cry me a river, kid. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2011-05-04 08:18 |
| #6 Bin Laden's young daughter 'saw father shot dead' Given the choice, I'll take a headshot over a leap from an 80 story building with my arss on fire. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-04 08:18 |
| #5 Grunter, that's an evil thought. More likely she and his wife fled to him once the bullets started flying. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-05-04 08:04 |
| #4 So she was in Daddy's bedroom at 1am? |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-05-04 07:58 |
| #3 One reason not to become a criminal mastermind is the risk that one's wife and offspring might one day have to see such things. Mr. bin Laden ought to have taken this into consideration as he settled on a career. That he didn't demonstrates his evil inclination in matters small as well as large. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-04 07:35 |
| #2 the daughter, whom he described as being 12 or 13-years-old She's lucky it were eeeevul mericans instead of fellow muslims: she would have been killed---after being raped. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-04 07:23 |
| #1 That's unfortunate. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-05-04 07:19 |