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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
I may have misread the mix of chinooks and Blackhawks. Also which bird did we lose? Dunno. Some day when the book comes out we’ll know.
Plus the mission plan may have called for open seats for detainees.
Like I said, just askin’
Impressive job and great planning/ execution = mission accomplished and no US casualties
The last part of this is really funny - enjoy:
http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2011/05/02/osama-raid-re-enacted-in/
LOL!!!! BeautifuL!
Of course it is. Just look back at the backpedaling Zero has done on several of his pet issues since last Aug, when he claims to have found out about OBL's little love nest.
You’re referring to rumors that circulated before the presidential announcement and WH confirmation. Rumors that floated so the press corpse had something to say for the hour or so while they waited for POTUS.
The operation was yesterday at @ 330p EDT, 5/1/11 in the US, not a week ago. (with the time difference, it’d have been early in the am on 5/2/11) The DNA stories accompanied those about the timing being a week ago with a missile or bomb attack vs. an on-the-ground SEAL operation.
Not in the least surprising. Political expediency above all else.
A bullet to the brain is natural?
As natural as can be as long as it was FMJ,
wood, or tungsten, a PP (Porcine Projectile)
might not be.
Not that there is any thing wrong with that.
could they have completed the mission, taken DNA eveidence and received a positive DNA result, transported the body to a body of water, washed it, dressed it and dispose of it that quickly? now we’re talking less than 24hrs?
After 15 minutes, you will be praying for God to rain ammo on you due to lack of resupply, even in a grunt battalion.
If Special Ops guys engage in anything over about a minute, they might succeed in winning the firefight, but they might fail to reach an extraction point from lack of logistics.
Rule of thumb for reconnaissance guys is to avoid engagement, except perhaps for a raid or ambush or maybe call for fire.
Nobody's been outed... no names, no pics, nothing but a nice story.
Like you, I am highly skeptical.
Facts:
1)Obama has Muslim Brotherhood advisors on the White Hut staff:
ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration
http://notalemming.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/ex-cia-agent-reveals-muslim-brotherhood-has-infiltrated-obama-administration/
2)Obama is falling in the polls, 42% approval rating and going South. Gas prices and inflation are soaring
3) Obama is being attacked on proving his place of birth, so successfully he has had to respond with his own propaganda initiative, and needs a distraction.
4) Obama is a grift artist, and lives by the campaign in which false images are presented to boost his popularity, this from the outset of his presidential campaign , which has not ceased with his inauguration.
5) Obama, by his conduct on Libya, the betrayal of allies of the USA on he WOT, Mubarack and Kadaffi, shows that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the spread of the World Wide Caliphate movement into North Africa and sub Saharan Africa.
Conclusion: I do not believe a thing that Obama does and says. If Osama Bin Laden is dead, I give credit to George W Bush who launched the Bin Laden hunt program years ago.But given the above stated facts, there is more than an even chance that his whole situation was staged to falsely END the hunt for Bin Laden, who may be even now lapsing into a comfortable anonymous retirement in a secret location.Taquiya,a major component of the Muslin Brotherhood that now is daily advising a traitorous president.Given Obamas thuggishness, his history of concealing all of his personal record, I objectively conclude that Bin Laden is alive and well and kicking back somewhere very safe.All the details of Osama Bin Ladens proof of death could easily have been staged. The body is so disfigured, that no visual ID can be made, and he was allegedly buried at sea. Sorry....no cigar.The body should have been brought to the USA and a very careful verification completed.It was not. Obama lies.
There is no true forensic independent verfication which should have been given as proof to NATO Allies.Indeed the body should have been handed over to NATO for verification of identity.Why was it not? I conclude Bin Laden was not killed.
I believe the team killed someone. I doubt it was Osama Bin Laden.
Muslims would line up to martyr themselves for Bin Laden, after having plastic surgery. LOL.Sorry Obummer!
No Cigar.
Whay was the body not handed over to NAT for independent verification. They too have been searching for him for years.Not having done that Obama can’t claim SQUAT.
You are still confusing the pre-official announcement rumors with some facts. The rumor that they got DNA confirmation was based on the rumor that he’d been killed a week ago. Neither is true.
The SEALS emerged with the actual body, from which no doubt DNA was taken for testing. But, no, there is not yet confirmation. But then again, it happened only 24 hours ago. With the body vs. parts following a missile or bomb, and with the witness of Navy SEALS, we can assume that DNA isn’t as necessary, just a good idea to have for doubters.
Every move related to this operation was planned out in excruciating detail and repeated in practice over months with the most skilled of our military, or it would not have succeeded. And, one might also assume, the post-operation movements were equally well planned.
Who seriously questions our Navy’s ability to take a body from the scene of the assassination, back to the base and off to a waiting carrier to conduct a funeral service and burial at sea within 12 hours?
Yes.
[And I swear to you I had not seen that video when I made that comment]
Kristinn, this is THE BEST THING I have read on what happened and who did it. But the explanatory reporting on the JSOC was just extraordinarily good without giving away our secrets. IT CAN BE DONE. The illustrations were very interesting, too.
“A bullet to the brain is natural?”
Is was for Osama bin Laden! He knew who he was...
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