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Obama blocked plot to bomb Bin Laden's lair FOUR months ago - he wanted DNA proof he was dead
dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 3, 2011 | Rob Cooper

Posted on 05/02/2011 8:04:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Barack Obama vetoed a plan for stealth bombers to blow up Osama Bin Laden's compound in March so special forces could get DNA evidence to confirm he was dead.

The U.S. President gave the all clear for an air strike on the 54-year-old's hideaway - but backed out.

Military leaders were going to drop 2,000lb bombs from two B2 stealth bombers on the secure site yards from Pakistan's military academy, sources revealed.

But Obama told the military to hold off, and instead an elite team American forces killed the terrorist during a firefight.

The President vetoed the original plan so the U.S. could preserve the terror leader's remains and prove that he had been killed, ABC News reported.

DNA samples taken from the body showed the man killed was '99.9 per cent certain' to be Bin Laden.

Detailed photo analysis by the CIA, confirmation by other people at the raid site and matching physical features like bin Laden's height all helped confirmed the identification.

His body was swiftly dumped at sea so that his burial site did not become a shrine.

Destroying the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, from the air would have killed all 22 people inside - including women and children potentially sparking an angry backlash from the international community.

The daring mission to take out the world's most wanted man was finally given the go-ahead last Friday, according to the source.

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


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To: pnh102

That doesn’t make sense. You could just as well say what if they stormed the wrong compound and killed an innocent Paki family?


21 posted on 05/02/2011 8:35:05 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: edpc
Wanting evidence is not calling BS or being a conspiracy kook.

The whole world wants to see the corpse.
22 posted on 05/02/2011 8:36:01 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My, my, my ...it’s hard to imagine a pacifist liberal planning the perfectly orchestrated assassination ...backed up with proof.


23 posted on 05/02/2011 8:36:25 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: rlmorel

Spot on. I couldn’t agree with you more.


24 posted on 05/02/2011 8:37:33 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Isn't it wonderful how, after 60 YEARS, the Commies are suddenly treating statements from the CIA as the Divine Truthyness of the Barak Obama Apotheosis?
25 posted on 05/02/2011 8:38:31 PM PDT by jonascord (The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; All
Destroying the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, from the air would have killed all 22 people inside - including women and children potentially sparking an angry backlash from the international community.

Think of it this way...we've heard that OBL, two of his lieutenents, his son, and a woman were killed. Perhaps 17 women, children and any other men survived. Probably most of those 17 were literal prisoners to that compound.

They couldn't go out for fear of being id'd. And even if they wanted to, those two security gates were two-way security gates!

The U.S. delivered these 17 from around 2,000 days of false imprisonment.

The SEALS are heroes in yet one more way!

26 posted on 05/02/2011 8:38:35 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: over3Owithabrain

You know full well any evidence provided won’t be good enough for some.


27 posted on 05/02/2011 8:41:08 PM PDT by edpc (Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
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To: Winstons Julia

The helicopter op was the way to go. The captured computers and flash drives are the major bonus. There will be huge intelligence dividends from this. Betcha those computers will be in Langley tomorrow morning.


28 posted on 05/02/2011 8:41:25 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: jeltz25; All

I wasn’t here last night. I wasn’t anywhere online except Facebook. I broke the news to my nephew from the Rummy tweet that we may have killed Bin Laden.

He CALLED me and together we surfed and found official confirmation.

He’s going to deploy soon for training to deploy for his third tour.

He reminded me not to be too happy because of possible retribution...but I was happy.

I just didn’t want to see ANY political codswallop.

I wanted to savor that moment. It wasn’t about politics...it was about 9/11.

And terrorism didn’t start on 9/11....the idea that us striking against it is CAUSING it is bollocks.

I moved to Belgium with my family in 1985. Terrorists had just hit the NATO Support Activity there. At 15, I had to take anti-terrorist training at the embassy....so

ALL of this has hit it’s gigantic huge pinnable carbuncle point.

I hope that it wanes now. I put my hands together and I PRAY that we no longer seek blood vengeance. Let’s REALLY end it .... but it means that THEY have to start....

I am hopeful. I am scarred from the past. I am positive for the future and feel that we are strong.

One man can’t really bring CHANGE ... CHANGE will come when people discover freedom.

God help and guide us.


29 posted on 05/02/2011 8:42:00 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: rlmorel

Where’s the “like” button when you need it? Great post.


30 posted on 05/02/2011 8:43:59 PM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: reasonisfaith

The Navy Seals ... if you try to say Obama is trying to fool you ... you are indicting the Navy Seal heroes who did this.

They lost a helicopter and STILL carried it out.

Please do NOT try to say our military would be complicit in something to deceive the public.

They are heroes.


31 posted on 05/02/2011 8:44:24 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Winstons Julia

My heart is with the spirit of your comments. God bless the Seals and our troops, and may they be guided by God’s light and truth.

And after seeing the look on Obama’s fact in that photo, I’m mostly convinced this thing really happened.

Obama looks like a Red Sox fan being forced to cheer for the Yankees.


32 posted on 05/02/2011 8:55:36 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Sarah Palin is above taking the fake high road.)
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To: edpc

For some, yes, but that’s no excuse not to do the right thing and provide sufficient proof. The world expects and deserves it - remember OBL killed many in other friendly countries.


33 posted on 05/02/2011 8:59:07 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama vetoed a plan for stealth bombers to blow up Osama Bin Laden's compound in March so special forces could get DNA evidence to confirm he was dead.

I do not believe this.

Mister Obama is not a deep thinker, and not an "ahead" thinker, especially about things forensic (DNA, etc).

Mister Obama has never professed an iota of interest in Military strategy, or any kind of attack planning, short of a sort of simultaneous avoid/delay/apologize/blame thing, that's tantamount to surrender.

(The Somali pirates being one good example.)

I suspect, most strongly, that it was the Military that campaigned to send in the SEALS, and that Mister Obama reluctantly agreed.

34 posted on 05/02/2011 9:02:42 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Fred Hayek
The helicopter op was the way to go.

Or they could have drove up and knocked on the front door. A lot less noise that the sound of those copters in the middle of the night.

35 posted on 05/02/2011 9:04:07 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: rlmorel

>> Not one ounce of credit. Not one inch of credit to the Left.

Indeed. This is one thing Obama inherited from Bush that he’s willing to boast about.


36 posted on 05/02/2011 9:06:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: reasonisfaith; All

Also, there’s a shark in the ocean today thinking, “Mmmm....tastes like curry.”


37 posted on 05/02/2011 9:33:13 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Winstons Julia

So they do a DNA test. Question: Who do they compare it to in order to determine it belongs to osama?


38 posted on 05/02/2011 10:29:50 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Winstons Julia

It was a better choice...but rendered less effective by not immediately releasing the photos and video.


39 posted on 05/02/2011 10:36:01 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day ("As government expands, liberty contracts." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: WVNan

His sister.

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/bin-laden-shot-through-left-eye-dna-matched-sisters-brain-tissues-—buried-in-arabian-sea-121094823.html


40 posted on 05/02/2011 10:36:13 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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