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To: ConservativeMan55

Another brief on what happened...also last paragraph mentions they are following Islamic practice and tradition on handling the body...must be Obama is naturally compling by their terms...or maybe his terms.

“Ben Laden was in a house eight times larger than its neighbors, with a seven-foot wall and valued at $1 million. The house had no phone of television and the residents burned their trash. The house had high windows and few points of access, and U.S. officials concluded it had been built to hide someone.
According to U.S. officials, two U.S. helicopters swept into the compound at 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Twenty to 25 U.S. Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command in cooperation with the CIA stormed the compound and engaged Bin Laden and his men in a firefight, killed Bin Laden and all those with him.

Two Bin Laden couriers were killed, as was one of Osama Bin Laden’s son, as was a woman reportedly used as a shield by one of the men. Other women and children were present in the compound, according to Pakistani officials, but were not harmed. U.S. officials said that Bin Laden himself did fire his weapon during the fight.
One of the U.S. helicopters was damaged but not destroyed during the operation, and U.S. forces elected to destroy it themselves with explosives.

The Americans took Bin Laden’s body into custody after the firefight and confirmed his identity. According to a senior administration official,..

.....the U.S. is “ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. It’s something we take seriously and therefore it’s being handled in an appropriate manner.” “

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-killed-navy-seals-firefight/story?id=13505792


1,395 posted on 05/01/2011 10:40:33 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Thanks...that answers my last question about how they carried out the raid.


1,411 posted on 05/01/2011 10:44:06 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah Palin in 2012!)
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To: caww

P.S. I’d rather see his body “handled” the way Mussolini’s was!


1,414 posted on 05/01/2011 10:45:47 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah Palin in 2012!)
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To: caww

Color me skeptical


1,429 posted on 05/01/2011 10:51:56 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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