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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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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US Navy Seals - Fantastic! Thank God for all our magnificent military forces .. none better !


1 posted on 05/01/2011 11:00:00 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: onyx; SE Mom; penelopesire; maggief; rodguy911; Liz; hoosiermama; Allegra; LUV W; Brad's Gramma; ...

The beast did go out shooting ..


2 posted on 05/01/2011 11:01:21 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE
FWIW, it may be fake, but here is a supposed photo of bin Laden dead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j2M8efvPhA&feature=player_embedded

3 posted on 05/01/2011 11:01:33 PM PDT by gandalftb (Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
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To: STARWISE

But he bought the bullet. Thank God!


4 posted on 05/01/2011 11:03:16 PM PDT by luvie (GOP? You need to fight like a GIRL!!~~Sarah Palin)
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To: STARWISE
I seem to recall stories that Bin Laden was dead years ago, that Bush was keeping him alive via video's to stoke fear in this Country??

I wanna see the body.

5 posted on 05/01/2011 11:04:38 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Woah, Obama will appease Trump, but not Lakin? Thanks LSM)
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To: gandalftb

i saw a photo earlier on the blaze blog— but it was removed about 5 minutes ago— looks like he hade a hole between the eyes


6 posted on 05/01/2011 11:06:12 PM PDT by chicken head
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To: Las Vegas Ron

they almost have to release a photo. They did it with Saddam after capture and after his hanging. If they don’t we will have a whole new conspiracy both here and in the muslim world.


7 posted on 05/01/2011 11:07:04 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Las Vegas Ron

its a coming ron.


8 posted on 05/01/2011 11:08:23 PM PDT by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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To: chicken head

probley a breathing hole there chiken head.


9 posted on 05/01/2011 11:10:19 PM PDT by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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To: STARWISE
"According to a senior administration official, the U.S. is "ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition."

Screw that. I still remember the pictures of the body parts of the contractors hanging from the bridge.

I tend to like how things were done in the past. The Americans took the bodies of certain Nazis and put them in unmarked graves.

During the war, tens of thousands of German soldiers were killed and buried in the East. After the war, Russia had them ALL dug up and placed in vast unmarked graves.

Point being: There is no need to honor a murdering enemy.

10 posted on 05/01/2011 11:11:52 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

With Obama as POTUS....hell, I want DNA matches!


11 posted on 05/01/2011 11:13:00 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: STARWISE
Here is the alleged death pic of Obama - got it from DU no less !!!

Not confirmed that this is real ...


12 posted on 05/01/2011 11:13:09 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: LUV W

Amen!


13 posted on 05/01/2011 11:13:52 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

I wonder if mommar or dinnerjaket are watching TV right now.


14 posted on 05/01/2011 11:13:52 PM PDT by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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To: Enterprise
I tend to like how things were done in the past. The Americans took the bodies of certain Nazis and put them in unmarked graves.

Too bad Inglourious Basterds was fiction, "I want my scalps."

15 posted on 05/01/2011 11:14:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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It's impossible to know what the truth is anymore.

I'd have to kill the SOB myself to know for sure.

16 posted on 05/01/2011 11:15:04 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Woah, Obama will appease Trump, but not Lakin? Thanks LSM)
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To: Lmo56

See my link at #3. I’m getting confirmation from several sourced that the photo may be genuine.


17 posted on 05/01/2011 11:18:34 PM PDT by gandalftb (Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
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To: Lmo56

I meant Osama - not Obama ...


18 posted on 05/01/2011 11:21:18 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: STARWISE

This world is on FIRE, this is going to make Ferdinand look like a popper.


19 posted on 05/01/2011 11:23:18 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Woah, Obama will appease Trump, but not Lakin? Thanks LSM)
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To: gandalftb

YT deleted it already :/

Bikk


20 posted on 05/01/2011 11:23:22 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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