Posted on 05/07/2011 1:24:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The compound in Pakistan where U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden was an active command center from which he directed al Qaeda, a senior intelligence official said on Saturday as he released videos showing bin Laden watching himself on tape and rehearsing speeches.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said information carted away from the compound by U.S. forces following Monday's raid represented the largest trove of intelligence ever obtained from a single terrorism suspect.
"This compound in Abbottabad was an active command and control center for al Qaeda's top leader and it's clear ... that he was not just a strategic thinker for the group," the official said. "He was active in operational planning and in driving tactical decisions."
The official released five video clips of bin Laden taken from the compound, most of them showing the al Qaeda leader, his beard dyed black, evidently rehearsing the videotaped speeches he occasionally distributed to his followers.
One video segment, however, showed a gray-bearded bin Laden in a more casual setting wrapped in a blanket and apparently wearing a ski cap while watching videotapes of himself. The official said the personal nature of the videos was further evidence that the man killed in the raid was bin Laden.
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They’re going to know it already.
I'm surprised there were no carrier pigeons found. I'm not sure how useful rabbits are... unless osama used rabbit ears for his TV.
I wonder what the satellite dish(es) were for? I swear I saw at least two in the diagram.
what about the big dish out back?
All BS. We aren't allowed to see death pictures yet they put all this stuff on the internet that should be classified info.
How big of a boost does Obama need?
Satellite TV? At the very least a command center would need to communicate out if not receive.
I agree.I suspect further inspection will reveal a hardwired internet/phone connection surreptitiously routed from a neighboring home. Nobody has “ 2 terabytes of information “ on a non-internet connected computer.
Honestly, Osama Bin Laden struck me as retired from terrorism in this compound (No phone, Broke). Al Qaeda seems to be run by other people now.
Given the U.S. advantage in sigintel, using Napoleonic-era command and control (couriers) at the strategic, and perhaps even operational and tactical level may actually be a good plan for anyone fighting us. AQ seems to have thought so.
I sure hope we find lots of porn on the confiscated computers and PUBLICIZE THAT FACT so the Muzziger world has to deal with the hypocrisy of their godlike “leader.”
When Obama Bin Laden lived in London, apparently he went to nightclubs a lot and probably boinked a few infidels.
What a douche that MF was.
That's right. Not a day will go by there wont be a story about some super intel nugget we uncovered there.
And nothing would be more devastating to that reinvention than a photo of some feeble old man with half his head blown off.
Agreed the franchise took over long ago.
Post 5 ....I think Wacky Sam nailed it.
My point is I don’t believe they didn’t have communications there. I don’t believe anything the government says. I am now not even convinced Bin Laden is dead.
Why do you say the intelligence community is crowing? All the leakage seems to be coming from 1600 Penn Ave, doesn't it?
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