Osama bin Laden was reportedly killed Sunday morning, around 1am Pakistani time.
Some details:
Security at the compound was “extraordinary,” an official said, with 12- to 18-foot walls topped by barbed wire. Yet the $1 million compound had no phone or Internet service. “Our best assessment was that bin Laden was living there with several family members, including his youngest wife,” the official said.
Asked what bin Laden did once the U.S. team landed, an official would say only: “He did resist the assault force.”
Officials said three other men were killed in the raid—one who is believed to be bin Laden’s adult son, and two couriers. One woman was killed when she was used as a shield by one of the combatants, they said. The U.S. team lost a helicopter due to mechanical failure.
Some more:
The U.S. had been monitoring the compound in Abbottabad for months after receiving a tip in August that Bin Laden might be seeking shelter there. He had long been said to be in the mountainous region along the Afghanistan, Pakistan border, hiding in a cave as the U.S. sought to kill him with drone strikes from above. Instead, he was in a house eight times larger than its neighbors, with a seven-foot wall and valued at $1 million. The house had no phone of television and the residents burned their trash. The house had high windows and few points of access, and U.S. officials concluded it had been built to hide someone.
According to U.S. officials, two U.S. helicopters swept into the compound at 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Twenty to 25 U.S. Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command in cooperation with the CIA stormed the compound and engaged Bin Laden and his men in a firefight, killed Bin Laden and all those with him.
H/T: HotAir.
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ReplyDeleteFew Questions: Why an amphibious SF like SEALs and not Delta? Surely taking him alive would of been more profitable, was he armed or unarmed? if so why not maim him first? and finally why they dump the body in the ocean? personal grudge by the patriotic SEALs or lack of need for evidence? does seem fishy
ReplyDeleteAnonymous hasn't figured out that any burial site would become a place of worship for aspiring terrorists?
ReplyDeleteOf course, the original info on the \"trusted courier\" came from a Gitmo interrogation, something the NYT doesn't mention.
Also, Inconceivable that OBL could live in Abbottabad, a city with many military installations and retired senior officers without someone somehow being aware of his presence. I wonder how much money monthly was going to whom in ISI & other corrupt Paki state entities to allow this to happen. And Omar Muhammed, OBL's original sponsor in Afghanistan, lives to this day in Quetta in Baluchistan with impunity.
Having Pakistan as an ally reminds me of Napoleon's famous dictum: \"Italy rarely ends up on the same side of a war it started on, except in instances when it changes sides twice!\"
Just saying: With having Pakistan as a friend, who needs enemies?
SEAL stands for SEa Air Land. Seals are trainied to operate in all conditions. SEAL Team 6 is the anti-terrorist team, the best of the best. No bad things to say about Delta, but I do know the SEALs are usually tasked when missions require little to no prep time.
ReplyDeleteThe air sure smells a lot fresher now... Good bye a-hole #1...! Now let's go out and get the rest of them, especially al Zawahiri, before they strike back in anger that they're #1 supreme leader is now history... Actually, they should be pleased... They're #1 leader is now #1 martyr. So..., how about it Al Qaeda...? Shall we call it 'even' for now...? We just helped you out... Allah must be very pleased...
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