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Bin Laden killed: How it happened (Time to bomb Pakistan for harboring Al-Qaeda)
BBC ^ | 5/2/2011 | BBC

Posted on 05/02/2011 3:36:22 AM PDT by tobyhill

Details are emerging of how al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was found and killed at a fortified compound on the outskirts of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan.

The compound is just "a stone's throw" and less than 200 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, an elite military training centre, which is Pakistan's equivalent to Britain's Sandhurst, one local journalist from Abbottabad told the BBC.

Other reports have put the distance at 800 yards.

But the compound lies well within Abbottabad's military cantonment - it is likely the area would have had a constant and significant military presence and checkpoints.

The operation began at about 2230 (1730 GMT) and lasted about 45 minutes, military sources told BBC Urdu. Two or three helicopters were seen flying low over the area. Witnesses say it caused panic among local residents.

Barbed wire and cameras

The target of the operation was the compound, which had at its centre a large three-storey building.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; manhunt; osama; osamabinladen; pakitrash
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To: Sacajaweau

So we shouldn’t have bothered killing Bin Laden?


61 posted on 05/02/2011 5:28:50 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: quesney

When Obama came into office he immediately let Pakistan know that they were not off limits and he acted rather pissed off at them. He started early on running military operations in Pakistan.

I think Pakistan politically repelled Bush’s effort to kill Osama and harbored him and Bush knew it. With all the pressure Bush was under from the Left, he was weakened and could not take on the Paki government’s betrayal on top of everything else.

The Left and the Dem party and the Rinos were treasonously anti-US and pro-Muslim to the point where they curtailed and prolonged our war effort. They gave comfort and protection to the Pakis as they ran their pro terrorist policy. Things changed.

Now we will see what happens if the terrorists who have flooded over our wide open border, retaliate from their connections and protection through the Muslim Brotherhood and their mosques. Obama has positioned some of them in government positions and Dems have put them on staff in Congress. It reminds me of the Fort Hood shooter. They are inside and near to figures of power, abetted by political correctness.


62 posted on 05/02/2011 5:30:48 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: tobyhill

We need a UBL urinal in NYC, DC, and PA.

The line will stretch for miles.


63 posted on 05/02/2011 5:32:52 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Frankly it’s not a gain. Would have used the find as an intelligence goldmine.


64 posted on 05/02/2011 5:34:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: tobyhill
“Where's the Death Certificate ?” :)
65 posted on 05/02/2011 5:35:52 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: PieterCasparzen

Ditto! The pakis were probably on his security team. Flatten the country to encourage the others. Then do the same to Iran & North Korea. You are right-idiot politicians & State Dept. people don’t know feces from shinola in dealing w/ terrorism or terrorist. They are great at BSing, though. If we severely punished Pakistan, for hiding & harboring Osama as we should, countries like Iran, Venezuela & North Korea would be pissing their pants.

Bomb holy hell out of ‘em & let India finish ‘em off. Have them annex the joint & call it “North Western Indiastan. The sooner we are rid of these Paki cockroaches the better!


66 posted on 05/02/2011 5:36:25 AM PDT by Bulgaricus1 (Fill your hand you son...)
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To: mylife

Ahh...big birds make much noise and cause the winds to blow downward instead of cross ways. They spit out men from their bellies, with wicked stingers like those of a hornets nest.

//sarcasm off.


67 posted on 05/02/2011 5:38:43 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: PieterCasparzen
Every day that goes by that we don't declare war and annihilate them sends a signal that we are just playing a decades or centuries-long game, sad to say.

The ONLY reasonable, truthful comment I have read all morning.

68 posted on 05/02/2011 5:39:05 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: tobyhill
Why buried at sea before we had a chance to cut his body up?

That's easy to explain and Obama is lying his butt off by claiming there was some effort to treat Obama's body in accordance to Islamic tradition. The truth is that the US military didn't want a grave site of OBL, for his followers to rally around. Same thing the Russians did with Hitler's body - don't leave a place for followers to gather around. This was also rubbing it in the faces of OBL's followers - we went in, killed him, brought him out, and dumped him where they will never find him.

We didn't need to cut anything up to get DNA samples as well. You could take dozens of samples for DNA within just a few minutes.
69 posted on 05/02/2011 5:44:20 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Sacajaweau

Well, this morning I am a proud American.


70 posted on 05/02/2011 5:44:36 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012; Kenny Bunk

If they dropped a dime on Ol’ Slimey Ben Rotten, do you think they would have lived long enough to spend any of the reward?


71 posted on 05/02/2011 5:45:04 AM PDT by magslinger (What Would Stephen Decatur Do?)
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To: Sacajaweau
Frankly it’s not a gain.

You should tell that to all of the people who took to the streets to celebrate last night, along with the families of the thousands of folks who died on 9/11. I think they'd probably disagree with you.
72 posted on 05/02/2011 5:46:32 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

CNN reported he wrote it himself.


73 posted on 05/02/2011 5:47:05 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. - W, 9/20/01)
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To: hershey

It wasn’t his mouth.


74 posted on 05/02/2011 5:58:45 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Speaking of good ideas, does anyone know of a cheap source for small korans that are cheap enough to afford hundreds
that could be deposited in prominent public urinals?

The sleeping dogs need woken up so they can be identified.


75 posted on 05/02/2011 6:02:21 AM PDT by soycd
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To: tobyhill

Bump for later


76 posted on 05/02/2011 6:07:11 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
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To: tobyhill

I can’t believe that Freepers are swallowing this whole stage show.


77 posted on 05/02/2011 6:09:05 AM PDT by fwdude (Prosser wins, Goonions lose.)
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To: quesney

This is old news we all knew about Pakistan. Keep your friends close keep your enemies closer.


78 posted on 05/02/2011 6:10:36 AM PDT by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
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To: hershey
One more thing...Zero actually used the words: One Nation Under God...and God Bless the United States of America. He even hinted that we’re an exceptional nation.

He was just sleepy.

79 posted on 05/02/2011 6:11:24 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Umm, You need to read up on the ISI. No country has the kind of influence on Islamic groups that the ISI has. The only thing that the US set up or rather stepped up was the transfer of funds and ISI threw a low-level flunkie once in while.


80 posted on 05/02/2011 6:15:18 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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