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Who shot bin Laden? Former SEALs fill in the blanks
Washington Post ^ | 5-2-11 | Manuel Roig-Franzia

Posted on 05/04/2011 9:51:30 AM PDT by bigbob

Who shot bin Laden? Former SEALs fill in the blanks

He is the unknown shooter. The nameless, faceless triggerman who put a bullet in the head of the world’s most notorious terrorist.

Yet there are clues, and the beginnings of a portrait can be pieced together from scraps gleaned from U.S. officials. A trio of former Navy SEALs — Eric Greitens, Richard Marcinko and Stew Smith — helped us fill in the blanks, drawing from their experiences to develop a kind of composite sketch of an elusive historic figure in real time.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: navyseals; seals; triggerman; whoshotosama
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A little insight into the community to which we owe so much.

I hope we never learn the identity of the triggerman, but I hope he receives all due recognition from his peers and superior officers. Thank you sir, whomever you are.

1 posted on 05/04/2011 9:51:37 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
Who shot bin Laden?

A liberal would answer by saying an assault rifle or semi-automatic handgun.

2 posted on 05/04/2011 9:58:40 AM PDT by fso301
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To: bigbob

If the news media (or for that anyone in our government) should release the identities of those involved, they should be jailed for life, if not worse. It would be the most despicable breach of trust one could imagine.


3 posted on 05/04/2011 9:58:43 AM PDT by bcsco
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To: bcsco

It was Mitch Rapp.


4 posted on 05/04/2011 10:01:06 AM PDT by bigtoona
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To: bigbob

The actual triggerman deserves no more credit than those who were with him, all of whom risked their lives in valiant duty.


5 posted on 05/04/2011 10:04:50 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: bigtoona

LOL! Just got my Vince Flynn newsletter today in which he wrote:

“Mitch Rapp was not directly involved, but the CIA’s Clandestine Service was. I’m told they were in the neighborhood for three months casing the joint and collecting intelligence. The operation is very reminiscent of the opening scenes in Memorial Day when the Joint Special Operations Command sends a strike team over the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan to capture a high value target. In the book the U.S. Government does not inform the Pakistani government because we know the terrorists are in bed with their intelligence service. Sounds strikingly familiar to what happened Sunday. It’s a great day for America! We owe a debt of thanks to the CIA and JSOC.”

I think Clark and Chavez and Jack Bauer are off the hook, too ;-)


6 posted on 05/04/2011 10:06:03 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

That guy ought to get free beers from here on out!!


7 posted on 05/04/2011 10:07:02 AM PDT by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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To: bigbob

It was Jack Bauer.


8 posted on 05/04/2011 10:08:47 AM PDT by Tim n Texas
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To: bigtoona

How about John Clarke or Ding Chavez?

Definitely not Dirk Pitt. He’s Air Force.


9 posted on 05/04/2011 10:11:40 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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A trio of former Navy SEALs — Eric Greitens, Richard Marcinko and Stew Smith

Surprised they are saying anything

10 posted on 05/04/2011 10:12:33 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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In his training group, he adds, there were college football studs who couldn’t hack it; those who survived were most often men in good shape,

A lot of former high school wrestlers, you can bet.

11 posted on 05/04/2011 10:14:38 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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Maybe that’s why they’re former SEALs


12 posted on 05/04/2011 10:15:57 AM PDT by sbMKE
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Type ‘A’ personality...you can see the riggers of the training at YouTube...


13 posted on 05/04/2011 10:16:45 AM PDT by shield (Rev2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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Surprised they are saying anything

Yeah, you would think they would STFU about operations and personnel. Why to people have to brag and show off about this stuff??

14 posted on 05/04/2011 10:17:44 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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15 posted on 05/04/2011 10:18:58 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Almost as evil as the Freeper Criminal Mastermind)
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Or Scott Harvath...


16 posted on 05/04/2011 10:19:32 AM PDT by bcsco
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To: bigtoona
It was Mitch Rapp.

Or Scott Coleman.

17 posted on 05/04/2011 10:28:25 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
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To: bigbob

The Washington Compost will not rest until these men are outted.


18 posted on 05/04/2011 10:32:20 AM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: bigbob

I loved the part where they through them in the pigpen.


19 posted on 05/04/2011 10:40:28 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: bigbob

threw not through


20 posted on 05/04/2011 10:41:48 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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