US Spy Ordered to Bring Home Bin Laden's Head on Dry Ice

AFP ^ | Tue May 3

[Petronski]

Yo!

[miele man]

Yes, you are right. They would've keelhauled him and locked him away under Leavenworth or worse.

I heard one yarn on the ROC's that were based around DaNang. As the story went, there was so little enemy activity around Da Nang that the US gov't threatened to withdraw the combat pay of troops stationed there. Supposedly, the ROCs were told about this dastardly deed the gub'mint boys were about to do, so they went up on Marble Mountain and mortared the US base. The US troops kept their combat pay. I never had any contact with the ROCs but heard more than a few times that they were vicious yet effective fighters, that they were not to be messed with.

[GVnana]

CIA counterterrorism director Cofer Black for final instructions. He said he was told: "'your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their cooperation militarily and they will take on the Taliban. "'When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice.'"

This story was told a few years ago in Bob Woodward's book, "Bush at War" without the dry ice bit. (That could be an embelishment.) In Woodward's telling, bin Laden's head was to be delivered to the President on a platter.

[headsonpikes]

I'm glad the meme is replicating!

Justice must not only be done, but be SEEN to be done.

[river rat]

Amen!

Semper Fi

[bert]

Coming from NPR.......

[Pharmboy]

Ya beat me to it...

[river rat]

Yeah, those bastards too!
When I get too tired on a long drive - I'll search for NPR just to get the blood flowing again...


A POX on their asses...
Semper Fi

[7thson]

Whether true or not, it sounds like a good idea to me. In fact, if the enemy feels like living in the 12th century, we should treat them as such.

[Little Ray]

I would have said "in a block of lucite" so that I could put in on display in the oval office...