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Obama took SIXTEEN HOURS to make up his mind about Bin Laden mission
Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 7:20 PM on 3rd May 2011 | By Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/03/2011 6:26:29 PM PDT by Niuhuru

Barack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound.

Hit squads of specialist Navy Seals - who were not even told who they were preparing to capture - had practised the mission at two reconstructions of the terror chiefs sprawling compound.

The mission looked set to be given the all clear last Thursday when analysts confirmed beyond doubt that Bin Laden was in busy town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; analysts; binladen; capture; celebration; chiefs; citizens; commanders; committee; compound; decision; hamas; jihadist; meeting; military; mission; national; navyseals; newyorktimes; obama; pakistan; president; security; specialist; sympathisers; terror; unemployment; whitehouse
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To: BobL

We’ve been looking for Osama for almost 10 years. The decision was made to kill him, from the get-go. The fact that the Seals had practiced the operation, and there was a definite ‘go-ahead’ from those who were doing the operational intel on this, means it should have been a no-brainer.


61 posted on 05/04/2011 6:52:04 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: maine-iac7
Read all about this on The JagHunter.com. Amazing story.

God Bless Our Military. This Country will remain free!

62 posted on 05/04/2011 6:59:59 PM PDT by mickie
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To: Niuhuru

1 hour of xbox
1 hour of watching hoops on tv
1 hour with Reggie upstairs
1 hour of showering and lotions
8 hours of sleep
1 hour of Reggie again
1 hour of getting ready, choosing golf shoes
1 hour of breakfast
1 hour of golf

“ok, let’s do it!”


63 posted on 05/04/2011 7:02:26 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
Read all about this on The JagHunter.com. Amazing story. God Bless Our Military. This Country will remain free!

And that includes the tens of thousands of returned TRAINED new WARRIORS - 10 years of training troops... and they all took "the Oath" - ;o)

64 posted on 05/04/2011 7:42:30 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: Freddd

Very interesting!


65 posted on 05/04/2011 7:44:47 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah Palin in 2012!)
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To: Freddd

I’d like to read that article. What is the address of the Atlas site?


66 posted on 05/04/2011 7:55:53 PM PDT by mickie
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To: Niuhuru

More likely the Vacationer-In-Chief had to golf on it.


67 posted on 05/04/2011 8:08:23 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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