Posted on 05/07/2011 11:32:01 PM PDT by GVnana
Excerpted:
Videos seized from Bin Laden’s compound and released by the Obama administration on Saturday showed him wrapped in an old blanket watching himself on TV, like an aging actor imagining a comeback. A senior intelligence official said other videos showed him practicing and flubbing his lines in front of a camera. He was interested enough in his image, the official said, to dye his white beard black for the recordings.
His once-large entourage of Arab bodyguards was down to one trusted Pakistani courier and the courier’s brother, who also had the job of buying goats, sheep and Coca-Cola for the household.
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Abbottabad, a scenic hill cantonment for the British Raj and later home to the elite military academy that is Pakistan’s West Point, became the Bin Laden family base in late 2005. Their large compound, in a new neighborhood on the outskirts of town, is now the most photographed house in the country, with stories spilling forth from astonished neighbors. Bin Laden, who was the tall man C.I.A. officers watched pacing the courtyard from a surveillance post nearby, never went out. The neighbors knew the family as Arshad Khan and Tariq Khan, the aliases of the trusted courier and his brother. The courier also went by the name Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.
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Cue Springsteen’s “Glory Days”.
Well, there wasn’t any 40 minute blazing gun battle with this doddering old man. He was probably sleeping in his Barcalounger.
Its what enraged muslim mobs chant every Friday - "abottabadabottabadabottabad". It makes sense that they would keep it for this town's name.
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He was simply suffering from a fear of a hellfire missile flying up his ass if he ever stepped out into plain sight.
Heh. I’ve got a vision in my head of OBL kicking back in his La-Z-Boy last Sunday, remote in one hand, Coca-Cola in the other, a bowl of popcorn on the floor in front of him, watching an old video of an interview he did with CNN back in 1997, and saying, “What the hell is up with all that racket outside?! I’m watching TV, dammit!”
But then again, I could be wrong about the La-Z-Boy; that’d be seriously upscale for his digs.
ROFL!!! THanks for that.. :-)
I am beginning to buy into the theory that Al Zawahiri flipped him to move up in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Bin Laden was living with two couriers, a bunch of wives, goats and kids. Doesn’t sound too daunting for the Seals or too gutsy for our fearless leader.
He's coming to get you: The day Osama Bin Laden sat glued watching TV of Barack Obama, the man who had him killed
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384573/Osama-Bin-Laden-sat-glued-watching-TV-pictures-Barack-Obama.html#ixzz1LmZOGugi
A title that doesn't match the original content of the article at all. Then the posting was pulled from FR without explanation. Weird.
So the CIA couldn't hire an out of work sniper?
True, but how would they get a positive ID?
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