Posted on 05/01/2011 7:11:45 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Geraldo just announced Obama will make some sort of statement in 30 minutes. Geraldo says this is unusually late and figures it has something to do with Libya.
He looks like he suffered some.
where is it exactly? I have Abbotabad up to and I have the karokoram highway but I don’t see the rochi clinic or st peters church. is it north or south of the intersection with kakul rd? any other landmarks nearby?
CNN’s Gloria Borger is reporting that intel from Gitmo detainees led to Bin Laden’s whereabouts, beginning four years ago.
Maybe the son.
Yeah, obvious shop job. Different resolutions, feathered clipping. The nose doesn’t even match up correctly.
ConservativeMan55 says it’s a photo-shopped fake, that he saw it days ago.
What if Obama had closed down Gitmo in the first year of his reign, as he had promised to do?
“On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets—and no one sees it, because they’re watching the movie Heidi instead. With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in favor of its previously scheduled programming, a made-for-TV version of the children’s story about a young girl and her grandfather in the Alps. Viewers were outraged, and they complained so vociferously that network execs learned a lesson they’ll never forget: “Whatever you do,” one said, “you better not leave an NFL football game.”
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-heidi-bowl
Yeah, well, it’s the pic they were discussing anyhow.
Appropriately, Gloria Borger is working the red eye shift tonight.
They’ll have to release it as we did with the photos of Saddam’s boys or the muslim world will never believe it.
Well that’s interesting. I wonder how they knew this was going to happen?
Another brief on what happened...also last paragraph mentions they are following Islamic practice and tradition on handling the body...must be Obama is naturally compling by their terms...or maybe his terms.
“Ben Laden was in a house eight times larger than its neighbors, with a seven-foot wall and valued at $1 million. The house had no phone of television and the residents burned their trash. The house had high windows and few points of access, and U.S. officials concluded it had been built to hide someone.
According to U.S. officials, two U.S. helicopters swept into the compound at 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Twenty to 25 U.S. Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command in cooperation with the CIA stormed the compound and engaged Bin Laden and his men in a firefight, killed Bin Laden and all those with him.
Two Bin Laden couriers were killed, as was one of Osama Bin Laden’s son, as was a woman reportedly used as a shield by one of the men. Other women and children were present in the compound, according to Pakistani officials, but were not harmed. U.S. officials said that Bin Laden himself did fire his weapon during the fight.
One of the U.S. helicopters was damaged but not destroyed during the operation, and U.S. forces elected to destroy it themselves with explosives.
The Americans took Bin Laden’s body into custody after the firefight and confirmed his identity. According to a senior administration official,..
.....the U.S. is “ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. It’s something we take seriously and therefore it’s being handled in an appropriate manner.” “
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-killed-navy-seals-firefight/story?id=13505792
AL JEZEERA:
This background on the operation to kill bin Laden was given to Al Jazeera by a senior US offiicial:
In the lead up to this operation, the President convened at least 9 meetings with his national security Principals. 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 NSC, CIA, DoD and Joint Staff. The President was actively involved in reviewing all facets of the operation.
The President made the decision to undertake the operation at 8:20am on April 29th in the Diplomatic Room before he left for Alabama. In the Dip Room were Donilon, Daley, Brennan and McDonough. Donilon then prepared the formal orders and convened the Principals at 3pm to complete the planning.
May 1 — staff worked pretty much all day today on the operation. Principals have been in the Situation Room since 1pm.
2:00pm the 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 was UBL.
8:30pm the President receives further briefings.
That’s a butt-load of Just for Men on that beard.
Thanks. That’s quite a compound. I wonder how our guys snuck up on it.
The same way CNN knew Obama was going to release a BC?
heh...
I have the map up too. I couldn’t believe it, there is an Abbottabad golf club!!!Maybe that’s how Obama found him! /s
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