Posted on 05/05/2011 7:01:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Osama bin Laden was killed at close range after he had been captured alive by U.S. commandos, one of the al-Qaeda leader’s daughters told investigators, reported a pan-Arab newspaper Thursday.
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper said Saffia, bin Laden’s daughter who is believed to be 12 years old, told Pakistani security intelligence while under interrogation that she had witnessed the demise of her father at the hands of U.S. Navy Seals at a compound near the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
President Barack Obama announced Monday that the al-Qaeda leader had been tracked down and killed by U.S. Special Forces in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad Sunday.
Saffia, who was one of several of bin Laden’s family members to survive the May 2 operation, said her father's killing had taken place on the ground floor of the complex, the paper said.
"She saw the Americans capture her father alive, then they shot him at point-blank range in a room at the ground floor," Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat said. "Bin Laden's [body] was dragged toward a helicopter hovering over the compound," it said.
The newspaper said Pakistani authorities had also arrested a woman among the survivors of the commando operation who claimed to be one of bin Laden’s wives.
Speaking to investigators, the woman who identified herself as Amal Ahmad Abul-Fateh, said she had passed out when U.S. forces stormed the compound.
Abul-Fateh, who was wounded in the commando operation, told Pakistani authorities that she was a Yemeni national, the newspaper added.
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat quoted Pakistani authorities as saying that two other of bin Laden's daughters – Aman, 22 and Mariam, 26 – had been slightly wounded during the 40-minute operation that killed the United States’ most-wanted man.
After medical treatment, the two women were taken to a “secure location,” the daily added.
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat said Pakistani authorities were facing legal problems in indentifying survivors of bin Laden’s family because they do not have any papers on them, except for bin Laden’s wife, who was carrying a passport issued by the Yemeni government.
It said the Pakistani government announced it would deport bin Laden’s family members to their countries of origin. A Pakistani official, however, said that this measure would be difficult to implement given that the family members do not have any travel documents.
They didn’t kill her though.
Maybe thats why they won’t release the pictures. Powder burn on OBL’s face?
They should let him spend 30-40 minutes next to a roaring 2000 degree fire and then shove him out the window of a 90 story building.
“captured alive then killed”
It would have been harder to kill him, had he been captured
dead.
By tomorrow, it will be “A guy dressed as a UPS man delivered a box of Cubans, and when my father lit one up it blew up in his face, and a bunch of SEALS that were hiding started laughing!”
Only 90 stories? Oh yeah, 110 story buildings got harder to find after 9/11.
The family members are illegal aliens in Pokeestaun.
Was not one of bin Laden's wives even younger than these daughters?
Ain’t that a bitch? Shot him down like a dirty dog. I’m only sorry there wasn’t time to torture him.
Just faxed it to you...honestly...who cares...the murderer can’t cowardly murder again...at least our armed forces took a brave act in showing those barbaric animals we don’t stone then to death...we put them out of immediate service and move on...
Seems logical to me. That way the SEALS didn't have to drag his dead body all the way down the stairs to the ground floor.
Really - I don’t give a tin shit how he got it - just that he got it. He could’ve been armed, unarmed, with or without a squirt gun. I just don’t care. He got what he deserved...and I don’t give a flyin’ f*** if his family was wasted either. Waste ‘em all is what I say.
I’d more likely believe that they still have him in custody for “questioning”.
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