[moehoward]

I don’t know. If they’re still using the “40 minute on the ground” scenario, that’s halfway into it. That leaves 20 minutes to get the prisoners rounded up, toss the whole place, load everything up and blow up half a helicopter.

I’m more inclined to believe they were in his room closer to the 10 min mark from set down.

[mulder1]

The helicopter left behind may not have been what it appears to be...

[mulder1]

The helicopter left behind may not have been what it appears to be...

[JohnBovenmyer]

The neighbor who unintentionally "live Twittered" the raid said he heard just 3-5 minutes of gunfire. Believable for the 'hot' part of the action. One place I saw cited "38 minutes" on the ground rather than the less specific sounding "40 minutes." Time spent tossing the place, collecting the treasure trove, trying to figure out who was how amongst his survivors and whether to take them along. And most importantly, waiting for their backup ride to arrive.

The biggest shame was losing the capacity of the downed copter. Ideally we'd have left with everyone still alive and left the Pakistani's with nothing. The only way any Pakistani could have known what went down would have been if they'd already known HE was there. Work the data and make a couple rounds of follow up live or drone attacks before announcing HIS death and some of those Pakistanis would have proven their complicity in the interim.