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A Politico Exclusive: Getting bin Laden - How The Mission Went Down
From Politico's Mike Allen
Getting Osama bin Laden: How the mission went down
The helicopter It was a heart-stopping moment for President Barack Obama, who had “Obviously, everyone was thinking about Black Hawk Down and Desert One,” a senior administration official recalled. The SEALs disembarked. “The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though The special forces put bombs on the crippled chopper and blew it up, The sick chopper turned out to be a tiny wrinkle in an astounding He was buried at sea less than 12 hours later. He was 54. Here’s how the world’s most-hunted man was vanquished, as recounted by senior administration officials: Contrary to the intelligence community’s long-held belief that bin “Bin Laden was living in a relatively comfortable place: a compound Officials described the raid as the culmination of years of highly On June 2, 2009, just over four months into his presidency, Obama had In the biggest break in a global pursuit of bin Laden that stretched “They indicated he might be living Officials didn’t learn the courier’s name until 2007. Then it took two “It was a “Holy cow!” moment,” an official said. The compound had been relatively secluded when it was built in 2005 — on “In the last six years, some residential homes have been built nearby,” Everything about the compound signaled that it was being used to hide someone important. “It has 12- to 18-foot walls topped with barbed wire,” the official For all their suspicions, U.S. officials never knew for sure that bin Laden was inside. The White House’s original plan had been to bomb the house, but Obama ultimately decided against that. “The helicopter raid was riskier. It was more daring,” an official told Officials knew there were 22 people living there, and Obama wanted to be The SEALs held rehearsals of the raid on April 7 and April 13, with officials monitoring the action from Washington. As the real thing approached, daily meetings were held of the national Over the past seven weeks, Obama had chaired numerous National Security “In the lead up to this operation, the President convened at least 9 At an April 19 meeting in the Last Thursday, just after his East Room announcement that Panetta would Obama didn’t announce his decision at the meeting, but kept his counsel overnight. In the White House Diplomatic Room at 8:20 a.m. on Friday, before flying Donilon signed a written authorization to Panetta, who commanded the The raid was scheduled for Saturday, the day when Obama and most of the Top West Wing staff worked most of the day on the operation. Senior The official’s e-mail gave this account of Obama’s day: “2:00pm the In the Situation Room, the president was surrounded by Daley, Donilon, Panetta was at CIA headquarters, where he had turned his conference room With the team still in the compound, the commander on the ground told a remote commander that they had found bin Laden. Applause erupted in Washington. Three other adult males were killed with bin Laden, officials said. “We believe two were the couriers and the third was bin Laden’s adult U.S. forces took photographs of the body, and officials used It was him. At 11:35 p.m., Obama stepped into the East Room and told the world: “Justice has been done.”
carrying Navy SEALs malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s
compound at about 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday, stalling as it hovered. The pilot
set it down gently inside the walls, then couldn’t get it going again.
been monitoring the raid in the White House Situation Room since 1 p.m.,
surrounded by members of his war cabinet.
they didn’t know if they would have a ride home,” an official said.
then lifted off in a reinforcement craft just before 4:15 p.m., capping
an astounding 40 minutes that gave the United States a tectonic victory
in the 10-year war on terror touched off by 9/11.
military and intelligence triumph. Bin Laden was shot in the face by the
SEALs during a firefight after resisting capture.
Laden was in a lawless “no man’s land” on the Pakistani border, bin
Laden had been hiding in a three-story house in a one-acre compound in
Abbottabad, about 35 miles north of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.
Officials describe it as a relatively affluent community, with lots of
residents who are retired military.
valued at about $1 million,” a senior U.S. official told POLITICO. “Many
of his foot soldiers are located in some of the remotest regions of
Pakistan and live in austere conditions. You’ve got to wonder if they’re
rethinking their respect for their dead leader. He obviously wasn’t
living as one of them.”
advanced intelligence work that included the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which specializes in imagery and
maps, and the National Security Agency (NSA), the “codemakers and
codebreakers” who can covertly watch and listen to conversations around
the world.
signed a memo to CIA Director Leon Panetta stating “in order to ensure
that we have expanded every effort, I direct you to provide me within 30
days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice”
bin Laden.
back to the Clinton administration, the U.S. discovered the compound by
following one of the terrorist’s personal couriers, identified by
terrorist detainees as one of the few al Qaeda couriers who bin Laden
trusted.
with and protecting bin Laden,” a senior administration official told
reporters on a midnight conference call. “Detainees gave us his nom de
guerre, or his nickname, and identified him as both a protégé of Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of September 11th, and a trusted
assistant of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, the former number three of al Qaeda who
was captured in 2005.”
years to find him and track him back to this compound, which was
discovered in August 2010.
the outskirts of the town center, at the end of a narrow dirt road.
an official said on the call. “The main structure, a three-story
building, has few windows facing the outside of the compound. A terrace
on the third floor … has a seven-foot privacy wall. … [T]he property is
valued at approximately $1 million but has no telephone or Internet
service connected to it.”
said. “Internal wall sections — internal walls sectioned off different
portions of the compound to provide extra privacy. Access to the
compound is restricted by two security gates, and the residents of the
compound burn their trash, unlike their neighbors, who put the trash out
for collection.
POLITICO. “But he wanted proof. He didn’t want to just leave a pile of
rubble.”
sure not to kill civilians unnecessarily. So he ordered officials to
come up with an air-assault plan.
security principals, chaired by National Security Adviser Tom Donilon,
and their deputies, chaired by John Brennan, the president’s
counterterrorism adviser.
Council meetings on the topic, including ones on March 14, March 29,
April 12, April 19 and April 28.
meetings with his national security Principals,” a senior administration
official e-mailed reporters. “Principals met formally an additional
five times themselves; and their Deputies met 7 times. This was in
addition to countless briefings on the subject during the President’s
intelligence briefings; and frequent consultations between the [White
House National Security Council], CIA, [Defense Department] and Joint
Staff. The President was actively involved in reviewing all facets of
the operation.”
Situation Room, the president approved the air assault as the course of
action. He ordered the force to fly to the region to conduct it.
succeed Robert Gates as Defense Secretary, the president held another
meeting in the Situation Room, and went through everyone’s final
recommendations.
down to view tornado destruction in Alabama, Obama informed Donilon
that he was authorizing the operation. Also attending the meeting were
Brennan, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley and Deputy National
Security Adviser Denis McDonough.
strike team. Donilon convened a principals’ meeting at 3 p.m. to finish
the planning.
West Wing was due at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
But weather pushed it to Sunday.
national-security officials stayed in the Situation Room beginning at 1
p.m.
President met with the Principals to review final preparations. … 3:32pm
the President returned to the Sit Room for an additional briefing. …
3:50pm the President first learns that UBL was tentatively identified. …
7:01pm the President learns that there’s a ‘high probability’ the HVT
[high-value target] was [bin Laden]. … 8:30pm the President receives
further briefings.”
McDonough, Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Joint Chiefs of
Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper, and others.
into a command center that gave him constant contact with the tactical
leaders of the strike team.
son,” an official said on the call. “There were several women and
children at the compound. One woman was killed when she was used as a
shield by a male combatant. Two other women were injured.”
facial-recognition technology to compare them with known pictures of bin
Laden.
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Strange how all of those people were gathered in front of the White House to cheer about a death that didn't cross the wires until late last night. Hmmm?
One word - Deathers.
Two mysteries solved in a week's time. Obama's birth certificate and Osama Bin Laden's deatth. What next? Jimmy Hoffa's body found? JFK mystery finally solved? Judge Crata discovered? What a mind blowing week!
Now that we've taken care of Bin Laden, its time we take care of the gold and silver cartel!
On June 6th, We Fight Back!
Silver's D-Day!
http://silverdoctors.blogspot.com/2011/05/silvers-d-day-invasion-we-buy-...
Jeez, the "Obama is Satan" wingnuts here never take a day off, even today.
One good reason to bury Bin Gotten at sea is so there's no grave, no shrine, no Jim Morrison-like groupies visiting the grave.
Now go back to the sad extreme-right tin foil.
talking points courtesy of MSNBC or Huffpo??
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42859914/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/
but you make some good points, I mean look at the thousands of skin heads that make pilgrimages to Adolph's resting place on a daily basis
This was the last military victory for USA. A bankrupt nation will not be doing imperial things for much longer...
here here Tim 73!!
Congratulations America! You have just gone from an alleged murderer to a confirmed one!
It’s time to celebrate good times, pop champagne bottles (read this), play drinking games and party until you puke!
And it’s only taken 10 years for the great United States military might to root out a 6 foot plus diabetic killer with a beard! Awesome!
Watch the YouTube video 'Pop The Champagne And Celebrate America! Osama bin Laden is Dead!' at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCZg1e-bh2I)
Shot with a 50 cal? Expert say BS. Had him in on a chopper, finally. but threw him in the sea out of respect for Muslim tradition.. hmmm.... maybe he was beheaded and his body thrown in the sea?. His head now a shrunken head like was done to the hated nazis? Just thinking outloud.
It took a lot of guts to make the call to go in with a Seal Team and take UBL out. There was huge political risk if the op failed. Remember Carter and the Iran hostages? It was a good call. It showed the M.E. that the americans can get "up close and personal", and don't just drop bombs from the sky.
To give his body a prompt and Islamic burial showed the respect for the religion that is justified, regardless of the sins of UBL.
It is too bad there are so many paranoids in the blogosphere who can't believe things that challenge their preconcieved notions of reality. They are truly the Luddites of the modern world.
If the U.S. is to move forward as a nation, and regain some of the respect in the world that was lost by the previous reign of the neo-con cons, we must act in a manner that inspires respect. I believe in this instance of the liquidation of UBL we did things right.
gh
I like you're view... hope it's correct.
The body was simply dropped from a helicopter over the sea.
guts? hostages? it does not take a lot of guts to order some soldiers to take a position. there were no hostages? what were the ramifications of a 'failed' mission? and really, how likely to fail when I'm sure we had plenty of back-up ready to go in if the initial assault failed. comparing this to the hostage situation is just wrong
It took guts on the part of the soldiers, but I don't see how this took a lot of guts to order.
And I know nothing about Islamic funerals, but I suspect being carried 1,000 miles to get dumped into the sea is not high on the list of standard funeral arrangements
Not to be a party pooper but I don’t swallow any of this propagandistic fantasy puke coming out of the criminally controlled government for one second. I don’t care what the product of a multigenerational intelligence service breeding program (The puppet Obama – Barry Soetoro) has to say. It’s all lies, all part of the BIG CON. This moron is just an interface between a dumbed down populace and the Ruling Oligarchy.
In all seriousness, anyone who buys into this chicken manure narrative is part of the problem. The entire Bin Laden myth is a U.S. Army/ C.I.A. creation. The guy was just a prop in the NWO Theater. The now reputed #1 Al Kaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki , was meeting with the Secretary of the Army within weeks after 9-11 (While #3 Al Kaeda leader at that time.) Check it out for yourself. It’s not that hard to figure out. Only a political infant, a political moron, would believe this government story.
Remember when you recall the images of those poor souls falling to their death from the towers on 9-11, Dick Cheney and David Rockefeller had a 1000 times more to do with it than ‘Osama.’
Watch TerrorStorm for an introduction to the history of government sponsored terror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrXgLhkv21Y
Then watch ENDGAME - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-CrNlilZho
For the uninitiated I doubt if you’ll junk m after that.
If this video is correct... then why do you suppose the Illuminati took such great pains to found the Age of Independence..... http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf
by all means explain yourself. you have ten sentences before we kill you.
I couldn’t answer that not being well informed on the history of the Ruling Oligarchies or Illuminati. I can say without a doubt we are being played. The evidence is readily available supporting that the Enemy is actually comprised of elements or cabals within Western Governments... and boy do they have a nasty, multi-faceted agenda. It’s a real downer to see my fellow citizens and our allies being taken in by these well heeled carnies.
Great little video/graphic BTW
Has anyone heard if V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft were used in the assault? Both the Marines and Air Force Special Operations Command have them in their fleets of aircraft.
Everyone should watch this video to know how this all really went down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiDyrkU0WAQ
If he's dead and buried at sea, I hope they stuffed his mouth with raw bacon first.
Why raw bacon? Sounds funny but I don't know why. Please enlighten.
for muslim..... pork =unholy=impure=sinful..
GET IT?
Raw bacon, salty fatty goodness even sharks can't resist.
Tyler - you might want to put up an ad link for tin foil, could make a mint today.
I can see a SEAL team catching Osama by surprise and popping his ass.
If the military has any memory of Iran and the disastrous Carter mission to save the hostages - backup choppers would be prudent.
Hiding in a wealthy residential area makes sense; look where our financial terrorists hide.
When does SEAL Team Six move in on Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, Angelo Mozillo, Barney Frank, Hank Paulson, and their ilk?
OBL did shit his pants, absolutely. the one i bagged did. And "they're next."
Future headline post-collapse:
"Blankfein, Rubin killed, Paulsen taken prisoner in SEAL raid on walled compound outside Asuncion, Paraguay"
"Geithner, Bernanke rumored to be 'On The Run' in Bolivia; "The net is closing" accorsing to CIA sources" (Reuters)
If only...
In case no one has noticed, the 2012 election is coming and certain parties prefer the Afghan War not go into extended overtime. So it was time to grab the scalp, wave the flag and come home.
I suspect they made sure not to interrupt the wedding and to have the news come out on a Monday morning. None of this Friday night business for closing down a war.
buffalo soldiers, er, sailors.
OBL is certainly one of the goodfellas at this point. especially compared to those lying sacks of shit we've had in the white house since he started pushing oprah off the front pages.
he will be given a new identity. FBI stuff. they'll protect him. as a 6'5" gray-bearded saudi muslim on dialysis, coming to a cave near y-o-u!
oh, wait! the presidents are deciders, thaaat's riiight!
Hang on!?!?! They shot him in the face and then they used facial recognition technology to identify him??? Am I missing something here?
Ben Laden may be dead, he may not be dead... who knows what oBama is up to. He lies all the time, I don't believe ANYTHING that comes out of his mouth! So, when he tells the truth, how would I know? The only thing that makes sense is that they knew where he was about 9 MONTHS before they actually did anything... that almost makes the story believeable.
Ben Laden may be dead, he may not be dead... who knows what oBama is up to. He lies all the time, I don't believe ANYTHING that comes out of his mouth! So, when he tells the truth, how would I know? The only thing that makes sense is that they knew where he was about 9 MONTHS before they actually did anything... that almost makes the story believeable.
High Plains Drifter: ya think? Yeah, it's utterly transparent bullshit. Funnier even than Barry's "birth certificate", and that's quite an achievment in itself.
So now we have 2 episodes of back to back BS so totally blatant it shows they no longer care to even try to make it believeable anymore.
Friends, I'm sorry to tell you this simple truth, but here it is straight up: from this point forward, we are in truly grave danger.
God please protect us from these Evil ones.
And there you have it.
Attack On Osama Tweeted By Resident As It Happened
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8953526-attack-on-osama-tweeted-by-resident-as-it-happened
"Buried at sea".......................uh-huh. If they had him, dead or alive, they would have paraded him around like a show pony.
It wouldn't surprise me an ioda if this whole thing is a publicity ruse.
I overheard some Obama "brothers" talking this am: "Obama took care of business!" Yeah, right.
I was watching the TelScreen last night and saw Glorious Leader inform us that the Glorious Forces of The Empire have killed Osama bin Goldstein. Mini-Tru determined through DNA tests that it was in fact, beyond all doubt, Osama bin Goldstein.
This is double-good.
Why was it, do you think, that relatives of the WTC victims received payoffs of $1.5 million approximately?
When before or since has .gov done that?
DO IT TO JULIA! sayeth the masses.
First the COLB with the embedded Adobe Illustrator info, now this . . .
It seems unclear where the doctored picture came from -- whether or not it is official.
If so, I'm amazed at the bush league incompetence--like the Chinese interpolating footage from Top Gun into their propaganda piece on their new stealth fighter..
I'm amazed at the bush league incompetence--like the Chinese interpolating footage from Top Gun into their propaganda piece on their new stealth fighter
In this case it is, as with the Birth Certificate, the Guys In Charge THUMBING THEIR COLLECTIVE NOSES at the lemmings, who absolutely SWALLOW it all up.
Meanwhile..."let's roll"
Whole breathless report by the "senior administration offocial" is designed to make Obama appear useful. I'm sure political fallout was the #1 consideration of the final thinking.
Can hardly wait for the miniseries - too much Obama thinking for a regular 2 hr movie.
Shot in the face.
Buried at sea.
U.S. forces took photographs of the body, and officials used facial-recognition technology to compare them with known pictures of bin Laden.
It was him.
Hmmm...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ME03Df02.html
Well, he might have been 'crushed between the tectonic plates' or maybe it was 'popped in the head twice at close range', but I gotta believe that he's now fish food out somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
No one provided a suitable ending, thus I shall do so:
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
As for the footage in front of the White House, my first thought was: "lunch". Ignorant & infantile 'useless idiots' symbolically served up in front of the white house.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
wOW, where is it from?
fabulous
Maybe this raid was not about getting Osama Bin Laden at all? Maybe they were after someone else and used this made up story for cover and a lot of press. Catching two birds with one stone.There is too many rabbit trails to this story. For example: chopper stalling during low altitude hover = hard landing & injuries or death. I was a helecopter crewman in the military and know how choppers react in different flight conditions. Then there is no pictures of the dead bodies for the public to see? No picture of Osama Bin Laden dead? It amases me that everyone asumes and talks all this story of Osama Bin Laden's death; and even throwing parties, with absolutely no proof that he was killed in this raid. How gullible the public is.
China's Xinhua gives another story about the attack.
It says that the Pakinstani forces killed Bin Laden and not the Navy SEALs.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/05/02/Report-Bin-Laden-child...
Yet another Obama's lie!
totally fucking bizarre.
"OBL Killed and body (evidence) dumpt in ocean",....and so the big lies continue.
TPTB had to know the stench that the quickie burial at sea would cause. They also had to plan and authorize the whole operation, down to the details. The real question is that, knowing the permanent questions it would raise among millions of people, why would they choose to bury the body rapidly at sea, if it really was OBN's body?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDOt1ZNteE
photoshop picture of assasination
even blind sheep can see its a fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDOt1ZNteE
photoshop picture of assasination
even blind sheep can see its a fraud
ummm, Cass Sunstein:
I mean you DO realize that they made a movie named Wag the Dog, ya? And that lots and lots of people have seen it, ya?
uhh, what's that you say? You're gonna have all of THEM categorized as domestic terrorists, just like all the others already on The List? Wow dude, you really ARE a genius.
You and Val have a nice time at Mao's Happy Valley Cadre camp, ya hear? Ya crazy kids.
Buried the guy at sea eh? Sounds fishy to me.
It sounds like Obama likes playing 'cobra commander' more than a president dedicated to bring the promises he made on the campaign trail to fruition-- well countless dead US and international soldiers, $444billion dollars, 10+ years of state terrorism, and we are no closer to solving society's greater problems.
Who'd a thunk that a nobel peace prize recipient would be more focused on war games than bringing peace-- the assholes over in Sweden should award him the nobel prize in economics-- maybe he'll be able to bomb the economy back into revival-- oh wait the assholes over at the fed are already doing that to the dollar.
Mission accomplished, yes we can, and 4 more years of this crap.
Scrambling out of a helicopter with .50 Barrets must have been quite a choreographed ballet...
To: Al Quaeda #2 guys (all 4,378 of you)
From: HR
re.: New Technology Policy, effective as of now
All iPhones must be discarded and securely destroyed immediately. That is all.
(Sorry if someone else already came up with this gag hours ago. I stole it from my 13 year-old son).
i think this circus acieved its goals - the masses now believe more than ever that Obama did this to aid his reelection - thus reinforcing the belief that elections matter.
Story of FAKE Birth Certificate and FAKE Ben laden death scam becoming biggest search term on Google.: OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A FAKE / OSAMA BIN LADEN DEATH A FAKE TOO.
What is really happening as the media-illusionists keep your attention on these lies that are getting more incredible as time goes on?
1. Is it the continued dollar crash?
2. Prep for more war?
3. A possible HAARP manipulation in the Madrid Fault area?
4. More towards the final solution as planed? http://www.zoklet.net/totse/en/politics/international_banking_money_laun...
5. More Distraction from the real possible deal of Comet Elenin and associates or the five other incoming objects this coming fall? http://elenin.org/levy-YU55.php
6. A coming Jericho/Blackjack type exercise/event coming?
7. Iran or Syria to spark a huge region wide war?
8. More tectonic type earth changes?
9. Continued ignorance of the Fukushima radioactive contamination of the entire planet?
10. All of the above?
Hummm....things to ponder...days left to make the best of...preparations to do and a one day at a time attitude in prayerful gratitude for the light that shines on all this insanity...and ZH where the more intelligent of the species gathers to comment on it all. Open minded discussion is a good thing.
What was it Spock would say?
-V-Live well and prosper.
Wow. Convenient!
Now they can cut the military budget down to 1/10th the size, balance the budget, get rid of the deficit enttirely and get back to a non war footing in the economy!
Better sell my commodities immediately!
well. that's the end of that, eh, zeroHeadZ?
OBL has a new day job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXCAKL9ESc&feature=related
I have a photo to share, I think you know what it is....dont ask me where I got it. I dont know how to upload it though, I need one person that knows how to upload a photo to PM me and I will give it to them. No tricks, just a photo of the end result.
Anybody remember Jessica Lynch? That's all that needs to be said.
For everyone saying Bin Ladin died years ago of kidney failure, I have one question for you all. If this guy is a hero in Pakistan and Iran and he can convince thousands of poor, uneducated easily influenced young men to go fight and die for him do you think maybe just maybe he convinced someone to give him a FUCKING KIDNEY? It's not an exceptionally complicated surgery these days. Who knows how long that asshole has been dead but I'd bet my left nut it wasn't from kidney failure. I'm nobody and I could have a new kidney by next week, installed, if I had a complete lack of morals.
When Obama spoke about the killing of bin Laden Sunday night, he was shameless. Every other word was “I.” I am really surprised that Obama didn’t insist that bin Laden be brought to Manhattan to stand trial. Seriously. Obama can puff himself up and shamelessly strut like peacock, claiming credit for the death of Osama bin Laden, but Gd bless our troops. Hats off to the US military that has been relentless, dogged and brave for ten years in their mission to kill that devout bastard.
In fact, it was intelligence gleaned from interrogating Gitmo detainees, specifically Khalid
Sheik Muhammad, that led to capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden. These are the very techniques that Obama and Holder have stopped and fought to reverse. Obama railed against these interrogations and wanted to prosecute the CIA interrogators who led to this capture.
Obama’s chest pounding leads to some troubling conclusions. If he takes credit, that causes other problems. Remember: when Muslims were killing innocent people in Afghanistan because fringe pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran in Florida, Obama said that Jones should curtail his freedom of expression, implying that he would be responsible if Muslims killed anyone because he burned a Koran. But if we follow Obama’s line of thinking, if Muslims go jihad now and start killing people because of the death of bin Laden, who will be responsible for those deaths? Barack Hussein Obama.
How does he reconcile such crippled thinking? Preserving freedom of speech and freedom of expression is just as precious and essential in this war on our civilization as avenging those who died for those very things (our very way of life) in the jihadist attack on America on September 11, 2001.
Besides taking credit, Obama said: “We must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims.”
Pure nonsense. Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden was a Muslim leader. Whether the Zuhdi Jassers of the world like it or not, Osama was a Muslim leader. Whether the violent Muslims of the world like it or not (and they do), he was a Muslim leader. Muslims in Indonesia were wearing Osama bin Laden t-shirts when we were over there helping them after the tsunami. He was a beloved figure to millions in the Muslim world because of his devotion and purity to the Islamic jihad.
And if he wasn’t a Muslim leader, why was he buried within twenty-four hours of his death “in keeping with Islamic tradition”? We washed and cleaned this monster? Outrageous. He should have been put behind a wall at the 911 Memorial and Museum, the very thing they are doing with the human remains of our loved ones who were killed there.
Also, the question must be raised: if Osama bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, but was instead a “mass murderer of Muslims,” why was the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan protecting him? And they were: Osama was not living in a cave. He was living in a mansion outside of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, and that’s where the American forces found and killed him. Osama was living in a splendid complex, a fortress that was built specifically for him near Islamabad. If that is so, then clearly the ISI, Pakistan’s spy service, knew where he was all along. He has apparently been there since 2005. He was there with his son and his youngest wife. So there is no way that the Pakistani government didn’t know that he was there.
Why now? Why did Pakistan allow this to happen after years of sheltering bin Laden? What did Barack Obama have to give up to the Pakistanis in order to make this campaign-bolstering deal for Osama bin Laden? Amid all the celebrations, there is something worrisome about the death of Osama bin Laden – and that is what we don’t know about it.
When Obama spoke about the killing of bin Laden Sunday night, he was shameless. Every other word was “I.” I am really surprised that Obama didn’t insist that bin Laden be brought to Manhattan to stand trial. Seriously. Obama can puff himself up and shamelessly strut like peacock, claiming credit for the death of Osama bin Laden, but Gd bless our troops. Hats off to the US military that has been relentless, dogged and brave for ten years in their mission to kill that devout bastard.
In fact, it was intelligence gleaned from interrogating Gitmo detainees, specifically Khalid
Sheik Muhammad, that led to capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden. These are the very techniques that Obama and Holder have stopped and fought to reverse. Obama railed against these interrogations and wanted to prosecute the CIA interrogators who led to this capture.
Obama’s chest pounding leads to some troubling conclusions. If he takes credit, that causes other problems. Remember: when Muslims were killing innocent people in Afghanistan because fringe pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran in Florida, Obama said that Jones should curtail his freedom of expression, implying that he would be responsible if Muslims killed anyone because he burned a Koran. But if we follow Obama’s line of thinking, if Muslims go jihad now and start killing people because of the death of bin Laden, who will be responsible for those deaths? Barack Hussein Obama.
How does he reconcile such crippled thinking? Preserving freedom of speech and freedom of expression is just as precious and essential in this war on our civilization as avenging those who died for those very things (our very way of life) in the jihadist attack on America on September 11, 2001.
Besides taking credit, Obama said: “We must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims.”
Pure nonsense. Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden was a Muslim leader. Whether the Zuhdi Jassers of the world like it or not, Osama was a Muslim leader. Whether the violent Muslims of the world like it or not (and they do), he was a Muslim leader. Muslims in Indonesia were wearing Osama bin Laden t-shirts when we were over there helping them after the tsunami. He was a beloved figure to millions in the Muslim world because of his devotion and purity to the Islamic jihad.
And if he wasn’t a Muslim leader, why was he buried within twenty-four hours of his death “in keeping with Islamic tradition”? We washed and cleaned this monster? Outrageous. He should have been put behind a wall at the 911 Memorial and Museum, the very thing they are doing with the human remains of our loved ones who were killed there.
Also, the question must be raised: if Osama bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, but was instead a “mass murderer of Muslims,” why was the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan protecting him? And they were: Osama was not living in a cave. He was living in a mansion outside of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, and that’s where the American forces found and killed him. Osama was living in a splendid complex, a fortress that was built specifically for him near Islamabad. If that is so, then clearly the ISI, Pakistan’s spy service, knew where he was all along. He has apparently been there since 2005. He was there with his son and his youngest wife. So there is no way that the Pakistani government didn’t know that he was there.
Why now? Why did Pakistan allow this to happen after years of sheltering bin Laden? What did Barack Obama have to give up to the Pakistanis in order to make this campaign-bolstering deal for Osama bin Laden? Amid all the celebrations, there is something worrisome about the death of Osama bin Laden – and that is what we don’t know about it.