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Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound
http://www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | By Steven Swinford 10:25PM BST 04 May 2011

Posted on 05/04/2011 4:01:08 PM PDT by Sprite518

The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; obama; osama; p; pakistan; palin; terrorism
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To: justice14

The dishonesty and incompetence of this administration makes it hard to believe their story. How many times are they going to change one lie for another falsehood? They could screw up a cup of coffee.


161 posted on 05/04/2011 5:33:01 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: ironman

Yes, the tail section survived; the fuselage was burnt. Speculation over at Defensetech.org is that it’s a modified stealthy version of the MH-60. As for controlling height as the Seals rappel down, don’t the pilots practice that all the time?


162 posted on 05/04/2011 5:38:51 PM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: KansasGirl
It is almost like they are trying to create doubt.

We Have a Winner!

163 posted on 05/04/2011 5:39:18 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Sprite518

As Rudy Ray Moore used to say, “HOW LONG... HOW LOOOOONG MUST THIS BS GO ON”?

LLS


164 posted on 05/04/2011 5:39:36 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH! Show the picture of bin laden you kenyan fagot!)
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To: TomServo

I don’t know what they were watching. Perhaps it was a projector screen of the information that was coming over the general’s laptop. Who knows?


165 posted on 05/04/2011 5:40:33 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: Carley

That’s a direct and unambiguous assertion... I wonder if it’s true.


166 posted on 05/04/2011 5:40:42 PM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: grey_whiskers
“Mr Panetta also revealed that the US Navy Seals made the final decision to kill bin Laden rather than the president.”

Yikes. These British Telegraph reporters need to brush up on their English writing skills.

(Not that American reporters are any better...)

167 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:02 PM PDT by Flyin' Hawaiian ("No private messages, please. Thanks.")
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To: foundedonpurpose

I’m so with you.


168 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:08 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (***You'll anger a conservative when you tell a lie & will anger liberals when you tell the truth.)
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To: TomServo

Maybe they were watching Roadrunner cartoons. Beep! beep!


169 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:14 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Sprite518

Bookmarked!


170 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:21 PM PDT by Ballygrl
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To: KansasGirl

Its like it was supposed to go one way, where there would only be rumors about what happened—and Osama would be a guest of US in Cuba. Except we left a chopper there. So, all of a sudden what should have been quiet and an “ace in the hole”, turns into a PR nightmare. No time to get their act together. So they are making it up as they go.

Evidently, none of these guys has ever done the risk assessment for anything. I have seen Boy Scout meetings run better than this.


171 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:33 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: Interesting Times; Cboldt; The Shrew; zot

***Mr Panetta also revealed that the US Navy Seals made the final decision to kill bin Laden rather than the president.***

What a choice! Kill Bin Laden rather than the President! Each would have had celebrations in the street!

Sarc/off

Is that spin or what!


172 posted on 05/04/2011 5:43:52 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare!)
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To: Sprite518

Everyone thought the people in that room were watching the actual mission. Why would the White House allow that kind of misunderstanding to continue?


173 posted on 05/04/2011 5:44:05 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: KansasGirl

Their whole entire coverage of this event is really bad...it just confirms again that they cannot and will not tell things as they are...you cannot believe anything coming out of washington.

If they’d just stop trying to shore up Obama things would get said and done...but not like they are doing..never happen.


174 posted on 05/04/2011 5:44:59 PM PDT by caww
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To: Sprite518
At any rate, according to Dr Steve R. Pieczenik OBL has been dead around the end of 2001, 2002 or maybe even 2003. Thus, why we can’t see the photos. The first photo sent to the media and press was quickly proved a fake.

I have to say that I have felt OBL has been dead for some time. The last video/photos we've seen of him, he looked so frail & could hardly stand. Then, new videos/recordings stopped coming out - ones that did just showed the same picture of him.

I figure if he had been alive all of this time, he would have still been putting messages out. When they announced this week that he had been killed - it just didn't register with me. My gut feeling just didn't jive with the information being put out. Something didn't feel right, the timing was too convenient.

As each day goes by, and the story keeps changing - I have to say that I have my doubts - maybe it was his SON that was killed. I know that sounds crazy, but there is something seriously fishy about this whole thing.

175 posted on 05/04/2011 5:45:18 PM PDT by alicewonders
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To: drierice

Saturday, Obama told the military heads,
“Lemme sleep on it.
Baby, baby, lemme sleep on it.
Lemme sleep on it.
I’ll give you an answer in the morning.”


176 posted on 05/04/2011 5:48:57 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (***You'll anger a conservative when you tell a lie & will anger liberals when you tell the truth.)
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To: TomGuy
they look more incompetent than Jimmy Carter or the Keystone Cops.

I'll add on everything they attempt to do because it all has to be according to whatever political point they want to make and who they want to lift up or take down. It's never the facts as they are...it's always clouded and hidden from how it really is. .......and worse they do it to keep us otherwise occupied on insignificant on matters.

177 posted on 05/04/2011 5:50:33 PM PDT by caww
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To: popdonnelly
I think now that the facts are blowing up in their faces, they are creating plausible deniability. Panetta has said today the decision to kill Bin Laden was the Seals and they didn't know what was going on for 25 minutes until they heard OBL was dead.

They are preparing to hang the Seals out to dry if needed
178 posted on 05/04/2011 5:52:41 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Qbert

Well it’s good news then that ‘Ben Ladens heir’ is dead...that’s really a very good thing.


179 posted on 05/04/2011 5:53:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: sheana
"Maybe they were watching Roadrunner cartoons. Beep! beep!"

They A R E a Roadrunner cartoon!

Btw- Boogieman died a year after the Twins were blown.

180 posted on 05/04/2011 5:54:34 PM PDT by de.rm ('Most people never believe anything you tell them unless it isn't true."-Groucho Marx)
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