And now reported the body has been buried at sea? Something is rotten in Denmark.
Was it a 40 minute fire fight? I heard a lot of the 40 minutes was ransacking the house for information.
Hanging out with the SEC and the CFTC.
It doesn’t make any sense to me. Hopefully more questions can clarify this situation.
That’s quiet simple. His bodyguards were probably from the Pakistani army, which happens to be an army with a country. Its not impossible that they are asked to stand back while the Americans did what they want. It’s not a bad bargain for the Pakistani army.
All this BS about the muzzie Pope hiding in a cave when he was living downtown all along.
Body guards probably were at the Mickey D’s down the street for the 49 cent cheeseburgers.
It may be that Bin Laden was protected by Pakistan intelligence service personnel who were told to flee just before the raid.
The Pak military academy was less than one click down the road. There was a hospital about 1 click in the other direction.
He was set up pretty well, overall. He no doubt had lots of eyes and ears of the Pak military and ISI telling cut-outs about any threats - of which there were basically none. He was so deep in Pakistan that our cross-border missions weren’t going to come anywhere close to his home.
And there’s this aspect: The more mouths to feed, the more mouths to blab. The news stories say that our guys found him by tracking the two couriers that OBL trusted. It seems as tho his inner circle shrank to a very small group of people - probably both for security, as well as a result of our pursuit of him over the years.
Just speculating, but it’s been reported that Osama had ordered his bodyguards to shoot him if he was ever about to be captured. I suspect the helicopters landed and SEALs jumped out, stormed the house, Osama made his guards shoot him, and then the goons negotiated to surrender, were disarmed and let go or turned over to local forces. Troops searched the house, destroyed the downed chopper and got out of there with OBL’s body. 40 minutes sounds about right.
OTOH, they may have had to shoot their way in after all. Some media reports out of Pakistan have OBL’s guards firing RPG’s from the rooftop and possibly shooting down the helicopter that crashed. Take it FWIW, just throwing it out there.
At least Obama didn’t demand that he be captured alive and then tried in NYC. Holder is heartbroken.
It’s SEALs not Seals.
Idiot reporter.
Abc reported that the firefight was short but spent the rest of the time looking for intel.
Where were OBL’s guards?
Fabrizio, where are you going?