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Source: Only 1 killed in bin Laden raid was armed (Obama's Version 48 of events?)
YahooNews ^
| 05/05/11
| PAULINE JELINEK
Posted on 05/05/2011 8:24:10 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
WASHINGTON Only one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired a shot, a senior defense official said Thursday, acknowledging the new account differs greatly from original administration portrayals of a chaotic, intense and prolonged firefight. The sole shooter in the al-Qaida leader's Pakistani compound was quickly killed in the early minutes of the commando operation, details that have become clearer now that the Navy SEAL assault team has been debriefed, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 72versions; bustickets; navyseals; obltermination; osamabinladenkilled; shiftingstory
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I think it was over at Sweetness and Light; but they commented that "the WH needs to start time stamping their releases". Also, this was a good round-up:
http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/05/04/the-obama-administrations-cloud-of-confusion-explained/
To: Tallguy
I think the intel was bad, the SEALS were screwed, and it WILL come out eventually. They were sent after women and children...blind...and in an untried newfangled helo that effing crashed. This had to have been horrendous for these guys. And I would bet they ain’t happy about it.
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posted on
05/05/2011 9:35:24 AM PDT
by
MestaMachine
(If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Only one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired a shotWho cares? He's dead. Two caps to the head. Just the way it's supposed to be.
Anyone in the way of justice got what they deserved. Obama had better figure that out. Fast.
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posted on
05/05/2011 9:54:24 AM PDT
by
GVnana
To: AngelesCrestHighway
A different version for every demographic!
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posted on
05/05/2011 9:58:39 AM PDT
by
melsec
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Once again Obama and his henchmen have shown their ineptness. They took a great victory in the war on terror and made it look like a key stone cop movie. All they have down is change the story so many times that even they can't keep the lies straight per Carney.
They would have been much better off letting the Pentagon or someone from Spec Ops brief the country on tyhe operation. But noooo, Obama had to toot his own horn and wanted to make sure everyone knew he was in charge. Obama was a blundering booby before this op and he continues to show he still is one.
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:03:17 AM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(Everytime I see that guy's face ot)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:04:16 AM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(Everytime I see that guy's face ot)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
To: ConservaTexan
If they ever release a photo of Osama, you can be sure that it will completely ambiguous and unrecognizable. Like the birth certificate, it will be designed to satisfy the gullible and discredit the skeptical, while continuing to conceal the truth.
To: Hootowl
Hard to tell whos winning this. Osama with his 72 virgins, or Obama with his 72 versions. Best laugh all day. If you don't mind, I'm posting this to my FaceBook
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I've never heard any comments on OBL having dialysis. Did he go out of the hut or was there a machine there. Assuming he needed it 3/week there should be something there. Oh well, I don't believe one thing that comes from this totally corrupt group in D.C.
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:19:06 AM PDT
by
Digger
(would have fought on the souths side.)
To: MestaMachine
“I think the intel was bad, the SEALS were screwed, and it WILL come out eventually.”
Put down the crack pipe.
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:28:28 AM PDT
by
rbmillerjr
(Murdering unborn children is the highest sacrament in the liberal religion.)
To: coaltrain
20 minute firefight with one guy and a gun and no one from a near by military installation heard a thing for 20 minutes? Sure the Seals might have had quiet guns, but bin Ladin's guys certainly didn't. Laughable...
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:32:59 AM PDT
by
Bobby_Taxpayer
(Don't tread on us...or you'll pay the price in the next election.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I read a UK source which said.....
Osama was killed by his own men; so, he would not be taken alive!!
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2 others that were found dead had gun shots from under chin
which indicate they took own lives...........
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I do not know the validity; but, they did encounter a fake door & were shot at as they entered the House......Then they had to make their way up to the third floor to find Bin Laden.....
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Sounds very possible that this was the scenario!!
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:37:09 AM PDT
by
ebysan
(ebysan)
To: melsec
Even if this is true so what? Did these people not know how to put their hands in the air? I cant believe a team of highly trained Seals would shoot someone who is surrendering.Shhhhhh... they were supposed to shoot him. If that decision hadn't been made up front, the mission wouldn't have gone off. The Seals wouldn't have gone in if there was any ambiguity about it.
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:43:57 AM PDT
by
Kenton
(Just my $0.02 worth...)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
UBL was shot (1st time.. 2nd time) while fighting the other bad guy for the gun? An autopsy and photographs would be nice.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:42:27 AM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
To: melsec
whether they were surrendering or not is irrelevant if the seals had kill orders. That is one example of what very special units like the one that did this are for.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Obamas focus groups have ruined the narrative of a great job by the SEALS. The SEALs' job of occupying the building, disarming or neutralizing any armed resistance in the building and holding the building against outside forces was accomplished. What happened to UBL and the others was at the discretion of non-military team members.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:52:43 AM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
The Pakistani's were involved, then they weren't... A Pakistani helecopter crashed, then it didn't... A woman was used as a human shield, then she wasn't... The woman was one of Osama's many wives, then she wasn't... The woman was killed, then she wasn't... Osama was armed to the teeth, then he wasn't.... Osama was going for his gun, then he wasn't.... Women and children killed, then they weren't... Man with a squirt gun shot, then he wasn't.... Osama's "burial" was according to mooslimb tradition, then it wasn't... DUh-bama will release photos, then he won't... No information was gleaned from enhanced interrogation or GITMO, then it was... Osama's son was killed in the raid, then he wasn't...
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:53:10 AM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
To: melsec
I cant believe a team of highly trained Seals would shoot someone who is surrendering. I don't think so either.
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posted on
05/05/2011 12:20:26 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
To: Gabrial
The SEALs captured and secured the compound then the spooks came in and interrogated the remaining residents. Some might have tried to escape.
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posted on
05/05/2011 12:26:36 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
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