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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54162.html";> White House modifies Osama bin Laden account
The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.
Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces.
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At a Pentagon briefing earlier in the day, a senior defense official said bin Laden used a woman as a human shield so he could fire shots. “He was firing behind her,” the official said.
In another background briefing early Monday morning, a senior administration official also said bin Laden put up a fight. “He did resist the assault force. And he was killed in a firefight,” the official said.
However, during a background, off-camera briefing for television reporters later Monday, a senior White House official said bin Laden was not armed when he was killed, apparently by the U.S. raid team.
Another White House official familiar with the TV briefing confirmed the change to POLITICO, adding, “I’m not aware of him having a weapon.”
At the Monday evening briefing for TV reporters, a senior official also corrected what Brennan described earlier as “my understanding” that the woman who acted as a shield for bin Laden was one of his wives and was killed.
“A different guy’s wife was killed,” a different official familiar with the briefing for TV reporters said Monday night. Bin Laden’s wife was “injured but not killed,” the official said.
Another official familiar with the operation said it did not appear that any woman was used as a human shield, but that the woman killed and the one injured were hurt in the crossfire. The official said he believed Brennan had mixed up the episode involving bin Laden’s wife with another encounter elsewhere in the compound.
“Two women were shot here. It sounds like their fates were mixed up,” said the U.S. official. “This is hours old and the full facts are still being ascertained as those involved are debriefed.”
In another discrepancy, Brennan said during his on-the-record briefing that bin Laden’s son Khalid was killed in the attack. However, the official White House transcript had the counterterrorism adviser saying it was another son, Hamza, who perished in the raid.
The White House didn’t offer a reason for any of the changes. However, Brennan noted during his televised briefing that his information came from reports from the scene as well as live video feeds of the raid. “I wasn’t there,” he said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BIN_LADEN_DNA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-02-17-17-06 Not everyone believes bin Laden really is dead
U.S. officials are balancing that skepticism with the sensitivities that might be inflamed by showing images they say they have of the dead al-Qaida leader and video of his burial at sea. Still, it appeared likely that photographic evidence would be produced.
“We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden,” John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, said Monday. He said the U.S. will “share what we can because we want to make sure that not only the American people but the world understand exactly what happened
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/bin-laden-lived-pakistan-compound-5-6-years-114333796.html Bin Laden lived in Pakistan compound 5-6 years: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden lived for the past five to six years in the compound deep inside Pakistan where the al Qaeda leader was killed by U.S. forces, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser said on Tuesday.
Bin Laden, who was living in Afghanistan before a 2001 U.S.-led invasion helped topple its Taliban regime, was holed up in a compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad in Pakistan before Sunday’s operation to kill him.
“Well I think the latest information is that he was in this compound for the past five or six years and he had virtually no interaction with others outside that compound. But yet he seemed to be very active inside the compound,” White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan said on the CBS Early Show program.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/osama-bin-laden-dead-navy-seal-team-responsible/story?id=13509739 Osama Bin Laden Dead: The Navy SEALs Who Hunted and Killed Al Qaeda Leader
These men have done all of this in anonymity. It is standard procedure never to identify members of Team Six.
“A lot of those missions — a majority of those missions — are ones that the public will never know about... and that’s a good thing,” Smith said.
Make that Dengar01. Whew, what a wild and crazy trip it was last night. Y'all keep your ears to the ground and eyes wide open for suspicious activities. It may not be this week or next week but six months from now when they think things are back to normal and we've let our guards down.
It was a cynical political ploy orchestrated by the administration and most of those who gathered there were young children on 9/11.
The second we saw them we said they were in 4th grade on 9/11 and were there only to party, not for what 9/11 meant. The Me!Me!Me! speech along with the fashionably (rude) hour late and the following mixed up timeline is nothing but the norm for this narcissist. Bush declining the invitation was the right thing to do.
Not showing the photo will do more harm than good. Without it, photoshopped or not, will only send the message to the ME that OBL is alive and well.
Even if America survives to see him out of office, he has placed far too many evil doers in government positions at all levels. He knows it will take many years to weed them out as it's nearly impossible to fire a government employee. They will continue his and Soros' work for many, many years. In fact, the plan to destroy America will probably move more quickly with him out of office as they can proceed with fewer questions and prying eyes.