Posted on 05/02/2011 8:30:14 AM PDT by kristinn
From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, the modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 30 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals, intelligence collectors, and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers.
After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were killed or captured. One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double tap -- boom, boom -- to the left side of his face. His body was aboard the choppers that made the trip back. One had experienced mechanical failure and was destroyed by U.S. forces, military and White House officials tell National Journal.
Were it not for this high-value target, it might have been a routine mission for the specially trained and highly mythologized SEAL Team Six, officially called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, but known even to the locals at their home base Dam Neck in Virginia as just DevGru.
This HVT was special, and the raids required practice, so they replicated the one-acre compound at Camp Alpha, a segregated section of Bagram Air Base. Trial runs were held in early April.
DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak.
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Said it eartlier. Great minds think alike!!
OBL BIN SEALED.
Navy SEALS 2
Bad guys 0
Navy SEALs Sniper team will shoot pirates (in the head) on Easter Sunday; Navy SEALs Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru) making sure Osama bin DEAD (also in the head).
Hot d’mn, with the real handsome photos of our heros (not identifiable to protect them), if this is not some awesome recruiting material, I don’t know what is.
I would guess the firefight was short. Most of the 40 minutes would have been identifying bodies and collecting every scrap of paper, laptop, CD and memory stick in the place. I doubt there are very many people working harder yesterday and today than the intel guys. Got to get 'em while they're fresh.
Yes, because when your brain gets vaporized by a bullet, NATURALLY, you die!
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
If there is justice in the after-life he will spend eternity in the seventh circle of hell being sodomized at both ends by wild boars.
Dust to dust. Brain to pink mist.
Hopefully well find something that’ll lead us to zawahiri.
OBL is DOA, ho-rah.
How much better, knowing where the cat is, to send a car bonb (or just a car and then add a Mk84) - and blame the explosion on a faction within AQ? Get them fighting each other.
Well, we all know who Time’s Man-of-the-Year is gonna be...
Anybody ever read why Major Garrett of FOX left for the National Journal?
Boom Boom Out Go the Lights
Sung by Little Walter
No kiddin'
I'm ready to fight
I've been lookin' for my baby all night
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lightsI thought I treat my baby fair
Now she's kiddin' all in my hair
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lightsNo kiddin'
I'm ready to go
When I find her boy don't you know
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lightsI never been so mad before
When I found out she ain't mine no more
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lights
Dunno how to phrase it well, but “foreign military helicopter crashes on military base/school’s lawn as part of an attack on a high value target just down the street” has got to suck for someone. Kinda like a karate black belt getting mugged, and his date looking at him going “WTF?”
Great article here.
This is/was common knowledge in the public view. Nothing new here other than they are the ones that did it. BTW I would be very surprised if it was anyone other than ST6.
How Ironic he died in the year with the two twin towers staring him in the face. 2011. Eat Shit Osama.
Great article...very informative.
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