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| US Osama Raiders Spoke Pashtu: Abbottabad Residents | |
| 2011-05-10 | |
| [Tolo News] Some residents of Abbottabad have said a number of US special forces spoke in Pashtu language during raid on the late Osama bin Laden's ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water... compound.
"Copters were flying very low and we became worried as it was unusual to see military helicopters flying at nights. At 01:00 am (local time) a huge kaboom rocked our city and then we curiously went out of our houses to see what had happened," said a resident in Abbottabad who declined to give his name for security reasons. "When we got ourselves to the incident site, it was already surrounded by the troops." A TOLOnews news hound who visited Abbottabad said he made it to the town after going through strict security checks by Pak security. A Pak check post police told TOLOnews "we search all the vehicles that enter the city. We don't let any person or vehicle in without passing through security check." Once you get into the city you would immediately find out that Abbotabad, the city where the runaway al-Qaeda leader holed himself up for several years, is a semi-military town. The structure of Osama compound is more like a military base and one architect living not so far form the compound said "the way the three-story house was designed had made me curious." Osama bin Laden was reportedly in the third floor of the building at the time of the attack and a US soldier has told the media that Laden had peeked at him from a window and then hastily ran for his life. People living near Osama compound said those living in the compound had never told anyone about what their occupation was. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 You don't need fluency to achieve basic communication. I can speak 3 languages at a conversational level, and I would expect basic competency could be achieved in about a month with most reasonably intelligent students, as I must assume the SEALs in question would be. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-05-10 23:46 |
| #5 Fortresses being a typical construct when you live in an barbarian society? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-05-10 16:28 |
| #4 The structure of Osama compound is more like a military base and one architect living not so far form the compound said "the way the three-story house was designed had made me curious." High walls topped with C-Wire, firing ports, and iron, crash proof gate was it? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-10 09:39 |
| #3 ITS NOT WORKING - AGAIN. You gotta feel sorry for the Paks (and by 'sorry', I mean overcome with mirth). Every which way they try to spin their way out of this mess, they come off looking either stupid and clueless, or treacherous and conniving. Or some combination of both. It is really kind of impressive, but not in a good way. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-05-10 08:59 |
| #2 I've concluded that many of OBL's Abbottabad neighbors knew there was a big-time terrorist living at the compound, whether or not they knew the exact ID doesn't matter one bit. The kids in the neighborhood are now expressing their main ambition in life, to kill apostates and infidels. There's a lot of Pak love for jihadis. They may some day evolve to a more humane outlook, or perhaps a good sound thumping might convince them to change. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-10 08:12 |
| #1 "Widout passing security check ... semi-military town" > HMMMM, HMMMMM, wehell, iff Islamabad = PAK GOVT. is still trying to prove it didn't know OBL was at Abbottabad, ITS NOT WORKING - AGAIN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-10 01:46 |