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2011-05-03 India-Pakistan
Osama killed with shot to head by Navy SEALs: official
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Posted by Fred 2011-05-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 "The spirits of all you have slain are watching you... and they will rest in peace now that your time has come. You must die as you have lived, a coward to the last." -- Luke the Warrior, The Legend of Luke
Posted by Korora  2011-05-03 00:28||   2011-05-03 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 DNA tests have confirmed that Osama bin Laden is dead

Wow! They have a DNA test for death now?
Posted by gorb 2011-05-03 00:45||   2011-05-03 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 See also TOPIX > US OFFICIAL: BIN LADEN SKULL BLOWN APART, after being shot by USN SEALS.

* Also from SAME > BIN LADEN FOUND IN CITY WID THREE PAKISTANI REGIMENTS.

IOW, Abbottobad = "Garrison City".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-03 01:28||   2011-05-03 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 More, from the news service that can not be named...

Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, detainees in the CIA's secret prison network told interrogators about an important courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to bin Laden. After the CIA captured al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he confirmed knowing al-Kuwaiti but denied he had anything to do with al-Qaida.

Then in 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was a courier, someone crucial to the terrorist organization. In particular, Ghul said, the courier was close to Faraj al-Libi, who replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida's operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden's personal courier.

Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. Under CIA interrogation, al-Libi admitted that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through a courier. But he made up a name for the courier and denied knowing al-Kuwaiti, a denial that was so adamant and unbelievable that the CIA took it as confirmation that he and Mohammed were protecting the courier. It only reinforced the idea that al-Kuwaiti was very important to al-Qaida.

It took years of work before the CIA identified the courier's real name: Sheikh Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani man born in Kuwait. In August 2010, Ahmed unknowingly led authorities to a compound in the northeast Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where al-Libi had once lived.


More mission details...

The helicopters lowered into the compound, dropping the SEALs behind the walls. No shots were fired, but shortly after the team hit the ground, one of the helicopters came crashing down and rolled onto its side for reasons the government has yet to explain. None of the SEALs was injured, however, and the mission continued uninterrupted.

With the CIA and White House monitoring the situation in real time — presumably by live satellite feed or video carried by the SEALs — the team stormed the compound.

Thanks to sophisticated satellite monitoring, U.S. forces knew they'd likely find bin Laden's family on the second and third floors of one of the buildings on the property, officials said. The SEALs secured the rest of the property first, then proceeded to the room where bin Laden was hiding. A firefight ensued, Brennan said.

Ahmed and his brother were killed, officials said. Then, the SEALs killed bin Laden with a bullet just above his left eye, blowing off part his skull, another official said. Using the call sign for his visual identification, one of the soldiers communicated that "Geronimo" had been killed in action, according to a U.S. official.
Posted by tu3031 2011-05-03 02:31||   2011-05-03 02:31|| Front Page Top

#5 With the CIA and White House monitoring the situation in real time

If it were Bush, there would be calls right now for ICC.
Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-03 04:21||   2011-05-03 04:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like the rules of engagement are different when there's a (D) in the White House.

I suppose we shoulda stood outside and demanded he come out, with his hands up. Like the gangster movies! "We gotcha surrounded, Baby Face! Cummout widyer hands up!"
Posted by Bobby 2011-05-03 06:44||   2011-05-03 06:44|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL Bobby:
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico Osama?"

*bam bam*


"yep"
Posted by Frank G 2011-05-03 08:24||   2011-05-03 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Body, body, head. Right from the textbook....
Posted by 49 Pan 2011-05-03 09:49||   2011-05-03 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Okay Obama, you're going to give the seals that
$50 Million reward, arent'cha, they earned it.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-05-03 10:53||   2011-05-03 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Wonder what the pucker factor was for the chopper pilot that had to get everybody out and back in one helicopter?
Posted by tu3031 2011-05-03 13:22||   2011-05-03 13:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Wonder what the pucker factor was for the chopper pilot that had to get everybody out and back in one helicopter?

They brought in one of the standby choppers, a Chinook, for the extraction and return flight to Afghanistan.
Posted by Chailing Stalin5434 2011-05-03 13:30||   2011-05-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Good to know. I hadn't heard that.
Posted by tu3031 2011-05-03 13:39||   2011-05-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

#13 "They brought in one of the standby choppers, a Chinook, for the extraction and return flight to Afghanistan."

Jeebus, a Chinook? Otherwise know as a Hurri-crane? Otherwise known as a bus with rotors? And the Pak military still didn't do anything with that large of a target? Guess it's hard to fight from under the bed.

Everybody on the raid has very large brass ones, but that Chinook pilot has the special size! Thank you all.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-03 13:39||   2011-05-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

#14 The past

NYT July 13, 2009

C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders

WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.

Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled an assassination plan after learning of it.

The plans remained vague and were never carried out, the officials said, and Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled the program last month.

Mr. Panetta scuttled the program, which would have relied on paramilitary teams, shortly after the C.I.A.’s counterterrorism center recently informed him of its existence. The next day, June 24, he told Congressional Intelligence Committees that the plan had been hidden from lawmakers, initially at the instruction of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The present

NYT May 2, 2011

The code name for Bin Laden was “Geronimo.” The president and his advisers watched Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, on a video screen, narrating from his agency’s headquarters across the Potomac River what was happening in faraway Pakistan.

“They’ve reached the target,” he said.

Minutes passed.

“We have a visual on Geronimo,” he said.

A few minutes later: “Geronimo EKIA.”

Enemy Killed In Action. There was silence in the Situation Room.

Finally, the president spoke up.

“We got him.”
Posted by Willy 2011-05-03 15:45||   2011-05-03 15:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Willy, SEALs aren't paramilitary, it seems to me. Probably better that way. No matter how good, sending paramilitaries instead of the beat of our best would be the final insult. And by openlycancelling the previous program, Mr. Panetta ensured that few would even think of the possibility...
Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-03 16:17||   2011-05-03 16:17|| Front Page Top

#16 PIMF. ...instead of the best of our best...
Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-03 19:40||   2011-05-03 19:40|| Front Page Top

#17 I know that TW,

I wanted to see the different media treatment of thew same team under Bush when under Obama, so I googled Cheney's assassination team and got plenty of result, one of them, for instance, from Fox Nation that says: SEAL Team That Killed Bin Laden was Smeared as Dick Cheney's 'Assassination Ring'
Posted by Willy 2011-05-03 21:22||   2011-05-03 21:22|| Front Page Top

#18 US CIA + Army DELTA FORCE elements were repor also part of the USN SEAL mission.

* ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > SECRET [US] STEALTH HELICOPTER USED IN ABBOTTOBAD ATTACK | [Aviation Week] BIN LADEN RAID MAY HAD EXPOSED STEALTH HELO?

Stealth-improved UH-60 Blackhawks, as possib derived from techs ala US Army's canceled COMMANCHE project???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-03 23:51||   2011-05-03 23:51|| Front Page Top

#19 Jeebus, a Chinook? Otherwise know as a Hurri-crane? Otherwise known as a bus with rotors? And the Pak military still didn't do anything with that large of a target?

I believe the Chinook is faster than any attack helicopter by a handy margin. If you had to depend on speed alone, the Chinook is probably the way to go in this case. If all goes well, they won't even see the opposing force anyway. Just fly under their radar.
Posted by gorb 2011-05-03 23:56||   2011-05-03 23:56|| Front Page Top

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