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.
Might explain why they’re not releasing the photos of OBL with a bullet to the back of his head.
Well it seems that if a person is in need of 'papers', send a lawyer to the state of Hawaii and they will produce whatever you might need.
I love this, Conservatives get off easy with this because we all agree that this was more then an appropriate way to dispose of this mass murderer. The liberals on the other hand now have to explain why they are not holding Obama to the same account that they held Bush too when Bush authorized people to pour water up the terrorists noses but never authorized assasination, to gain information from terrorists murderers. So Obama’s direct actions were against the Geneva Convention which conservatives argued for years did not apply to OBL and his ilk but the lefties even moderates lefties and congressional lefty leadership went after Bush with threats of impeachment over what they called war crimes that now their boy is guilty of....
So will the left fess up and either acknowledge that George W. Bush had it right or hold Obama accountable?
Thats the real story that the Obama PRAVDA media does not want to touch with a ten foot pole.
“Might explain why they’re not releasing the photos of OBL with a bullet to the back of his head.”
I was thinking that too.
The secondhand descriptions said “OBL’s head wound.... huge wound above one eye; brain matter showing; other eye is completely gone.”
To me, that sounds like an EXIT WOUND. Or a couple exit wounds.
If you shoot someone point blank in the forehead, does it take half their head off (in front)? Wouldn’t the entry be small, while the exit wound (in back) is large?
Possibly, she was two at the time.
Perfecto mundo....
I find this really interesting, certainly labled Extreme Top Secret is the call from the Seal team leader to the Chain of Command.... “Geronimo, We have target in custody sir, awaiting orders...”...... a few seconds tick by.... “Team Leader you have the go ahead, target did not survive the firefight, repeat target did not survive the firefight.....”
There's no mention of him in this account.
Leni
One guy over there actually said this about the daughter's claim that we captured, then shot, Bin Laden:
"The only reason she is saying that is to make me feel even better about what happened."
Very surprising thing to see on DU. Sounds like something we'd say here.
Those boys never killed anyone that didnt need it.
Tough. Osama got what he has been dealing out for 20 years, a violent death. That it was his own is HIS fault, no one elses.
$1.00 bullet vs Hundreds of millions for a trial? Give me a break, the result would be the same.
Whoa, I just listened to RUSH from today.... some guy calls in, and suggested the same “exit wound” theory!
Sounds very reasonable.
I can believe that they shot him unarmed and on-sight. However, I do not believe that they shot him, execution style.
“Waste ‘em all is what I say.”
Maybe it would have been better to blow the whole building to hell. Then dig his DNA out of the rubble. Then there would be no one left alive to bitch.
EXCUSE ME. This is a WAR! We firebombed most of Tokyo and killed thousands of civilians and no one said — “Look! They only had squirt guns. OOO. Lets give the dead a Shinto funeral to show them how enlightened we are. “
We would have lost WWII with this AH in charge!
This is DANGEROUS for our survival people.
Our cities could be nuked by Al Qadea unless we wipe them out.
“Might explain why they’re not releasing the photos of OBL with a bullet to the back of his head.”
That’s what I’ve been thinking all day. From the description of the injuries above his left eye they must be EXIT wounds.
Funny !
bfl
For the life of me I don’t understand why they would kill obama? Why not keep him alive an get him to talk. They won’t show us the pictures anyway. They could have still claimed he was dead.
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