Osama Bin Laden confirmed dead

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#201
Thanks man. Great pic. Lyls put it up on FB earlier today too.
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They are saying this was a strict kill mission. Take no prisoners. Might as well, it's been ten years.
 
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Some Pakistanis are taking credit for giving the US information that lead to where he was.
 
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zjcvols said:
They are saying this was a strict kill mission. Take no prisoners. Might as well, it's been ten years.
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Given the nature of the mission, it's a hell of alot easier to get out of Dodge with a corpse than a live prisoner. Add to that the mess that would come with having the bastard alive, and the fact that he probably wouldn't be too useful under interrogation, might as well just plug him.
 
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bam15 said:
The CIA, DOD, and DEVGRU deserve credit.

Barney Fife could have been President and this could have happened.
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As a Marine I do agree that the real credit goes to the boots on the ground. That said you are so wrong when you say Fife could have been President and the outcome would be the same. Politicians are famous for sticking their noses into stuff and screwing it up. They can either act too fast and wait too long (the fact that DC got the timing right on this is amazing). The President has to base his decision on when to act on the information provided to him by advisors and the intelligence community .

So I will give Obama a little credit for trusting the right people and making the correct decision when the time was right. That is pretty much all we can ask from a President in these times.
 
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justingroves said:
Well that's ignorant.

Shoot the bastard in the head on sight should have been the orders from the get go.
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From what I've seen, it's the same thing with Hussein. If you find him, and can capture him without having any Americans dead, that's fine. If not, then kill the bastard. That's how I take it.
 
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zjcvols said:
From what I've seen, it's the same thing with Hussein. If you find him, and can capture him without having any Americans dead, that's fine. If not, then kill the bastard. That's how I take it.
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I'm pretty sure Admrial McRaven had a different take on it.
 
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interesting tidbits

Some White Knuckle Moments for Elite Navy SEALs Team - Political Punch

One possible complication: While CIA contractor Ray Davis was in the Pakistani prison there were concerns about his safety were this mission to be conducted.
Davis’s March 16 release cleared that possible obstacle to the operation -- a kill mission, with the clear objective to kill bin Laden.
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Another white-knuckle moment – at the end of the operation, Pakistan’s military scrambled fighter jets looking for the US helicopters. Who knows what could have happened if the Pakistani planes had reached the US helicopters -- but they didn’t.
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Video: Inside Bin Laden’s Drone-Proof Compound | Danger Room | Wired.com

It means no drone could’ve pulled off the hit on Bin Laden.

The Reaper robotic plane (pictured) is the most advanced in the U.S. unmanned fleet. It has a top speed of only 260 knots. And it lights up on radar like a Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Pakistani surface-to-air-missiles would have brought it down in an instant. Nothing can fly in that region without detection and without permission from the Pakistan Air Force, even from Afghanistan,” as NightWatch notes.
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According to ABC, inside the compound, the raiding team discovered “computers” — plural. Whatever information they contain is doubtlessly being picked over by intelligence officials for clues as to the locales and plans of bin Laden’s deputies, operatives and funding sources.
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Last night, I did something that I don't normally do, and that's jump around the house for joy. Finally, the evil b*****d can rot in Hell.
 
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droski said:
like this part:

The original plan was for the Navy SEALs to rappel down into the compound, and that’s how they practiced it in April on a replica of the compound the military constructed in the U.S. on which SEALs Team Six conducted two practice runs.

BAD ASS
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Fast rope was the plan.
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looks like they found some other good stuff in his house

Porn found in bin Laden lair, officials say - World news - South and Central Asia - Pakistan - msnbc.com

A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday.

The pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.
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funbag_binladen-porn.jpg
 
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