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Osama Bin Laden Killed By Navy Seals in Firefight
ABC News ^ | 5-2-11 | BRIAN ROSS, JAKE TAPPER, RICHARD ESPOSITO,

Posted on 05/01/2011 10:59:54 PM PDT by STARWISE

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Instead, he 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 or 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.

This April 1998 file photo shows exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. A person familiar with developments on Sunday, May 1, 2011 says bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body.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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 72versions; binladen; firefight; navyseals; obltermination; operationgeronimo; shiftingstory; specialforces; usnavy
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To: Islander7; NFHale; sickoflibs

heheheh...Navy SEALs, helicopter gunships, landlocked mountainous compound, very quick ex5traction for burial at sea, and the photo is either a really bad photoshop, or obamabinladen used a hellava lot of ‘just for men’ on that rat trap beard...???


161 posted on 05/02/2011 6:48:17 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: STARWISE

(CNN) — The operation that killed Osama bin Laden was designed to do just that, not to take him alive, a U.S. government official told CNN Monday.

DNA matching is under way on samples from the body of the slain terrorist leader, the official said. There are photographs of the body with a gunshot wound to the side of the head that shows an individual who is not unrecognizable as bin Laden, the official said.

No decision has yet been made on whether to release the photographs and if so, when and how.


162 posted on 05/02/2011 6:51:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: eak3; Las Vegas Ron
So we finally kill the biggest terrorist figure in our recent history and they quickly dump the body out at sea? But of course Obama is trustworthy and we can take him at his word, so we should absolutely believe everything is on the up and up with this and reelect him because he did what Bush couldnt do. Gimme a break!!

I'm afraid I have to be cynical here and I would like to see more proof like an undoctored full body pic of Osama. The reason is that Obama is so low in the ratings, he needed a boost and this would be it. The burial at sea has added to my cynicism. Sad to say, the only way that I would believe it is if I shot Osama myself or a close friend did it. I would at least take pictures.
163 posted on 05/02/2011 6:52:46 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Debrained


164 posted on 05/02/2011 6:59:42 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Scanian
I have no problem respecting anyone's religion. Even if I disagree with it, and even if they'd refuse me the same courtesy in other countries.

However, that doesn't mean I shut my brain down whenever the President says, "Be Happy!", or "Arugula," or makes Trump jokes.

Whether or not it's true, the story appears somewhat concocted with elements for distraction, especially for those who keep hoping for the best, despite the evidence that Barry is a liar with a red-diaper past and who-in-the-world knows where his loyalties lie and who parties with heads of multi-nationals in Rio and golfs all the time.

A. If you express any doubt about the death of OBL or the method of dealing with it, you are seen as attacking our Seals or our military servicemembers.

B. Saying they hid behind women - makes you say, "ah told you so" and make bacon jokes. Great fodder for the mind to distract from say, a highly weird burial-at-sea.

C. Shrine-building? Wouldn't that just make an excellent piece of fly-paper? Isn't that why we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan? To create "flypaper" for the bad guys, instead of having them attack the US at home? That's what I was told. So, to magically say, "we didn't want to have a shrine" as an excuse to dump a body into the sea, seems strange.

Just sayin'.

165 posted on 05/02/2011 7:00:58 AM PDT by elk
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To: STARWISE

Why is the Media talking about UBL’s proper “Traditional Islamic Burial” at sea? What a bunch of cra!

American’s could care a less about a proper Islamic burial and WILL DEMAND to see PROOF!


166 posted on 05/02/2011 7:04:07 AM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: STARWISE

[A U.S. official said he was buried at sea in accordance with Islamic practice.]

wtf???! They dumped his body at sea in accordance with Islamic practice. Why?


167 posted on 05/02/2011 7:14:13 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: SE Mom

“...the LAST thing UBL saw was an American with a gun.”

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Gotta love those SEALS)

IMHO


168 posted on 05/02/2011 7:21:41 AM PDT by ripley
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To: PigRigger

We finally killed that Rat Bastard. Thanks to all of our Special Operation teams like the Navy Seals, CIA, all our military members,President Obama who gave the orders yesterday to go in and take him out. And especially of course former President Bush who got the ball rolling. Kudos to all of you!!


169 posted on 05/02/2011 7:25:45 AM PDT by Corporal Clegg
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To: STARWISE

Obama couldn’t even be bothered to stay in the Situation Room during the operation? That’s cold.

The most important military operation in years, and he can’t drag himself away from the golf tournament or NBA playoff game long enough to monitor it? Sheesh.

(I knew I’d find something to sheesh him about, othe4r than his self-centered speech last night.)


170 posted on 05/02/2011 7:25:57 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: STARWISE

Obama couldn’t even be bothered to stay in the Situation Room during the operation? That’s cold.

The most important military operation in years, and he can’t drag himself away from the golf tournament or NBA playoff game long enough to monitor it? Sheesh.

(I knew I’d find something to sheesh him about, other than his self-centered speech last night.)


171 posted on 05/02/2011 7:26:11 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: conservativeimage.com

Yes!


172 posted on 05/02/2011 7:35:05 AM PDT by trialbyfire (Black conservatives are people too.)
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To: dervish

Waiting for the most politically useful time?


173 posted on 05/02/2011 7:42:31 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I haven’t thought much about Goatface for a while, but weren’t their reports a few years ago that OBL had received plastic surgery?

The height factor was a little harder to conceal. 6-5 Arabs are pretty scarce.


174 posted on 05/02/2011 7:45:30 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: SunkenCiv

Yep it was 6.


175 posted on 05/02/2011 7:45:29 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Keep the 'ICk" in Democratic)
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To: Nowhere Man

“The reason is that Obama is so low in the ratings, he needed a boost and this would be it.”

Not to mention the fact that he lies like a rug everytime he opens his mouth.


176 posted on 05/02/2011 7:47:37 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: ecomcon

Wouldn’t you rather have waterboarded him first?


177 posted on 05/02/2011 7:49:34 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: TheDailyChange

Damn straight.

That “burial at sea” bit fries my ass worse than anything.

We owe nothing to terrorists except a horrible death after a thorough interrogation using every technique available.


178 posted on 05/02/2011 7:51:54 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: STARWISE

I don’t know what or who to believe anymore. The first reports last night on Fox News said Bin Laden was killed a week ago but hey were waiting for DNA that they got from his relatives to match-which it supposedley did. ALL of the anchors including Greta and Geraldo reported this.

THEN Obama got on and read a week old speech and didn’t even notice the faux pax’s he was making. My husband and I looked at each other increduously. TWICE in the speech, Obama said TODAY I issued an order to kill Bin Laden, and said it again later as if the act happened yesterday...

When Geraldo came back on he was more subdued. Then for the rest of the evening they never followed any of the rules of journalism.-Who, what, where, why and WHEN.. All they said is Obama Bin Laden was killed. It was listed as breaking news, but noone said what day or time he was killed! they all actually covered up for Obama’s mistake of just reading the speech and changing nothing-not even the part about us waiting to report until we had the DNA.

Then, I woke up this morning waiting to see the pictures and find out when we were going to get the DNA proof, and I hear he was “buried at sea:??? WTF?

If he IS dead, how do we know he didn’t die peacefully in his sleep from the kidney failure he was in, and Obama is now taking credit for the death?

This whole story stinks to high heaven.


179 posted on 05/02/2011 7:59:04 AM PDT by Wisconsinlady (DEFUND NPR, PBS, THE TSA AND THE U.N.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Too bad the body "fell into the ocean" before anyone else could view it. Still, Muslim customs must take precedence over every other consideration, I suppose...wouldn't want to upset our enemies' sensibilities.

By rights, his head belonged mounted on a pike in the middle of Ground Zero.

"I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

180 posted on 05/02/2011 8:07:38 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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