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Senior Official on Bin Laden Compound: ‘We Were Shocked By What We Saw’
CNSNews ^ | May 2, 2011 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 05/02/2011 1:12:45 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: Carley
"No telephone and no internet service.
So how is it that they have hard drives from the computers inside. And other electronic equipment was retrieved as well.
Did OBL stick the computer connection into his ear for internet?
Sheesh...........STOP TALKING ALREADY..........what fools."

You CAN have computer and hard drives, etc. WITHOUT internet and telephone. I'll pass on referring to you as a fool though. :)

81 posted on 05/02/2011 2:50:29 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: FReepaholic
"I know it's hard to imagine but it is entirely possible to have a computer that's not hooked up to the Internet."

Stunning lack of thought, isn't it?

82 posted on 05/02/2011 2:51:49 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

A friend of mine happened to be in Pakistan a few years back and swears she saw Bin Laden in a government building.

They’ve been “hiding” him in plain sight for a very long time. Glad we got him!


83 posted on 05/02/2011 2:55:28 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: airborne

Seems to me I’ve come across an article that suggests Zero and his puppetmaster Jarrett were dead set against this operation and Hillary and the CIA were the catalysts. The article called it a “coup”. I’ll have to see if I can locate it again. I think a FB friend directed me to it.


84 posted on 05/02/2011 3:00:01 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: jazusamo

Reads as if this entire compound was built from the ground up to house Bin Laden. And it was constructed in the safest neighborhood in Pakistan. We had to know something was going on there ever since the construction began.


85 posted on 05/02/2011 3:02:44 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: jazusamo

View inside Ben Laden’s ‘mansion’:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/osama-bin-ladens-son-death-unleash-violent-enemies/story?id=13509779

Looks like something from ‘Hoarders: buried alive’.


86 posted on 05/02/2011 3:03:32 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: stripes1776

LOL. Did these guys sleep through 5th grade English?

The word ‘unique’ is never modified.


87 posted on 05/02/2011 3:05:46 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Yaelle

Statement by Trump recently:

“Why haven’t we captured Ben Laden?
Come on, how can you lose a 6 ft Arab on dialysis?
Pakistan knows where he is.
Cut off their foreign aid. They’ll cough him up”


88 posted on 05/02/2011 3:09:05 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Perdogg

“I wonder how young his wife was and was she hot.”

She certainly was after that white phosphorous round hit her.


89 posted on 05/02/2011 3:15:35 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: justa-hairyape

No doubt the compound was built specifically for Osama. There had to be many Pakis that knew it and I imagine some in our intel had a good idea.


90 posted on 05/02/2011 3:19:16 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I’d be willing to bet that even without hard wired telephone or internet service, he probably still was hounded by telemarketers.


91 posted on 05/02/2011 3:20:01 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: RC one
Here is some of the American taxpayer money that Obama has given to that sh*t hole Pakistan and other sh*t holes:

Obama gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/obamas-supplemental-bill-passes-gives-billions-to-enemies/

• $3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

$400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces•

Afghanistan: $1.52 billion, $86 million above the request • West Bank and Gaza: $665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

• Jordan: $250 million, $250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

• Egypt: $360 million, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance, $50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

Pakistan: $1.9 billion, $591 million above the request

• Iraq: $968 million, $336 million above the request

• Oversight: $20 million, $13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

• Lebanon: $74 million

• International Food Assistance: $500 million, $200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

• Refugee Assistance: $343 million, $50 million above the request, …including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

• Disaster Assistance: $200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

• Peacekeeping: $837 million for United Nations peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

• Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system The mainstream media remains silent on this but the International News has now picked up the story http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22164 — and then there is Obama’s $108 billion IMF bailout scheme http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/13/obamas-100-billion-imf-bailout-scheme/ in addition to the Supplemental.

According to the Associated Press, the Obama administration will give away nearly $6 million of American tax dollars to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including Islamic mosques and minarets, in 55 nations. See the State Department document here.

http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-of-policy-and-evaluations/ambassadors-fund/afcp2010list.pdf

92 posted on 05/02/2011 3:26:35 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: MrB

I would say that Bush was extremely close to catching him. BO definitely couldn’t have done it without the Bush Administration.


93 posted on 05/02/2011 3:44:45 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: jcsjcm

I’m willing to bet all I have that all the branches working on the end of this maggot would dedicate the mission’s success to W.

Let’s see if zero is brave enough to insist on photo ops with these men. Doubt it.


94 posted on 05/02/2011 4:28:55 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Carley
No telephone and no internet service.

So how is it that they have hard drives from the computers inside. I owned two computers with hard drives before I had internet. (And my first internets connected computor had a hard drive with less capacity than I have today on a $10 USB thumb drive)

95 posted on 05/02/2011 5:38:37 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: jazusamo

bump


96 posted on 05/02/2011 5:57:15 PM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: jazusamo

“in August 2010, we found their residence”

That was almost a year ago. This is May 2011.

Why now?


97 posted on 05/02/2011 7:49:22 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: I still care

Good question, I wondered the same thing. It definitely shouldn’t take that long to gather intel and act on it if you’re serious about taking him down.


98 posted on 05/02/2011 7:58:53 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: MeganC

“Honestly, do you know who lives in all of the homes around you?”

That’s a reasonable question, but actually, though I don’t know all of them, I do know a lot. I am also rather nosy and I take a good look at my neighborhood as I walk around it for exercise. At the moment, I am weighing whether I should call in some neighbors whom I suspect of running a cock-fighting enterprise. I don’t have hard evidence but things look pretty odd there. (A lot of people have a lot of chickens, but how many have an opaque eight foot fence, concertina razor wire at the top of the fence, and judging by the number of rooster calls, a LOT of roosters instead of hens?) At any rate, I endeavor to be on top of things instead of getting caught by surprise.

I think a better question is, how aware are the police in this area of what is going on here? How aware should they be? In an area such as Abbottabad where there are a lot of military entities, how aware are they or SHOULD they be of reclusive millionaires who come in and build impregnable fortresses with 12 foot fences? I would argue that they should be as nosy as I am.


99 posted on 05/03/2011 10:34:28 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (March 2010: Congress shoved Obamacare down our throats. November 2010: We will shove it back!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

No one in the United States would tolerate the kind of police scrutiny that we’re saying should have existed in Pakistan. I’m just saying that if there were no overt crimes going on at bin Laden’s house in Abbottabad then the Pakistani police had no reason to bother anyone there. Add to this the fact that while Osama’s place did attract some attention, it is not all that remarkable for people in that part of the world to have places like that. Around here you need only go to Mexico City and you’ll see homes that make Osama’s place look downright flimsy.


100 posted on 05/04/2011 9:41:10 AM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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