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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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KEYWORDS: 72versions; binladen; firefight; navyseals; obltermination; operationgeronimo; shiftingstory; specialforces; usnavy
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To: Candor7

———The body would normally be handed over to NATO allies for independent forensic verification of death———

You misunderstand the action, the operation. It was not a NATO operation. It was All American.

The killing of Usama Bin Ladin in Pakistan was was an American national vendetta.


221 posted on 05/02/2011 11:13:45 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: LS
Thanks for the update. I think 0bama might have ordered this without Paki permission. Sen. Levin is out there ripping the Pakis for protecting bin Laden and Hillary is out there trying to patch things up by saying we have a "partnership" with them.

Someone posted previously that 0bama passed on three previous opportunities to get bin Laden. One was a missile strike and the other two were ops like this.

We have to know 0bama is careless about relations with both allies and enemies. When he was a candidate he recklessly said he might invade Pakistan. Since then we have seen so much more flat-footed and ham-handed words and actions with numerous other nations. I'm waiting to hear how things are going on the street in Pakistan following this news.

222 posted on 05/02/2011 11:43:19 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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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.

I'm very glad to see so many others thinking the same thing I am. I'm so beyond cynical and disgusted by how they (try to) manipulate us. Like we're all so stupid that we'll swallow their lies, hook, line, and sinker. It's so obvious on their Communist unholy day too.

223 posted on 05/02/2011 11:46:40 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: bert; Ditto; Candor7

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was identified by facial recognition, fingerprinting, known scars and tattoos and the U.S. military did an autopsy on him.


224 posted on 05/02/2011 11:54:48 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was identified by facial recognition, fingerprinting, known scars and tattoos and the U.S. military did an autopsy on him.

I imagine they did the same for Osama. Plus it is reported that they can do a DNA match with his sister. I don't know if they had a relatives' DNA sample they could match up with al-Zarqawi.

But when was it SOP to turn the body of any KIA over to some other entity for verification as claimed by Candor7?

225 posted on 05/02/2011 12:13:18 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Ditto

I guess Bush was just too insensitive to give Zarqawi a Muslim funeral and get him in the ground within 24 hours eh? Because there darned sure wasn’t time to autopsy and x-ray bin Laden.


226 posted on 05/02/2011 12:18:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: bert

The killing of Usama Bin Ladin in Pakistan was was an American national vendetta.>>>>>>>>>>>>

I know. A vendetta well exploited in Obama’s latest grift.

When you get off your high, think about it a little.
Just maybe you will get some sense.


227 posted on 05/02/2011 12:25:19 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: TigersEye
Because there darned sure wasn’t time to autopsy and x-ray bin Laden.

How do you know that? FWIU, they flew his rotten carcass out to the USS Carl Vincent which has the best medical facilities available in that part of the world.

They would have had plenty of time to slice and dice, pull samples and x-ray the hell out of him before they tossed him over the side to the mercies of the 72 virgin hammerhead sharks waiting for him.

228 posted on 05/02/2011 12:26:56 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Ditto

Facts:

1)Obama has Muslim Brotherhood advisors on the White Hut staff:

ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration
http://notalemming.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/ex-cia-agent-reveals-muslim-brotherhood-has-infiltrated-obama-administration/

2)Obama is falling in the polls, 42% approval rating and going South. Gas prices and inflation are soaring

3) Obama is being attacked on proving his place of birth, so successfully he has had to respond with his own propaganda initiative, and needs a distraction.

4) Obama is a grift artist, and lives by the campaign in which false images are presented to boost his popularity, this from the outset of his presidential campaign , which has not ceased with his inauguration.

5) Obama, by his conduct on Libya, the betrayal of allies of the USA on he WOT, Mubarack and Kadaffi, shows that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the spread of the World Wide Caliphate movement into North Africa and sub Saharan Africa.

Conclusion: I do not believe a thing that Obama does and says. If Osama Bin Laden is dead, I give credit to George W Bush who launched the Bin Laden hunt program years ago.But given the above stated facts, there is more than an even chance that his whole situation was staged to falsely END the hunt for Bin Laden, who may be even now lapsing into a comfortable anonymous retirement in a secret location.Taquiya,a major component of the Muslin Brotherhood that now is daily advising a traitorous president.Given Obamas thuggishness, his history of concealing all of his personal record, I objectively conclude that Bin Laden is alive and well and kicking back somewhere very safe.All the details of Osama Bin Ladens proof of death could easily have been staged. The body is so disfigured, that no visual ID can be made, and he was allegedly buried at sea. Sorry....no cigar.The body should have been brought to the USA and a very careful verification completed.It was not. Obama lies.

There is no true forensic independent verfication which should have beeen given as proof to NATO Allies.Indeed the body should have been handed over to NATO for verification of identity.Why was it not? I conclude Bin Laden was not killed.


229 posted on 05/02/2011 12:27:57 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; no-to-illegals; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; FARS; All

According to another FR post, the first clues were developed at internment camps located in Poland and Rumania. Here is another news story with several related links thereat:

http://abcnews.go.com/


230 posted on 05/02/2011 12:35:42 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Candor7
Indeed the body should have been handed over to NATO for verification of identity.

Why? NATO didn't get him. Did we hand al-Zircari(sp?) over to NATO? Anyone else?

Your tin foil is way too tight if you think Obama would try to play a scam this big. Someone in the chain of command would blow the whistle in a second. Too many people involved and too many good men have died over the last 10 years hoping for this day to play games with this. Way too many.

A conspiracy can only work if you limit the number of people involved. This was not a limited operation.

231 posted on 05/02/2011 12:36:42 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: SE Mom

“To think of it...the LAST thing UBL saw was an American with a gun.”

Pretty satisfying.


232 posted on 05/02/2011 12:42:58 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Ditto
I know that because a timeline was established by taking the reported time the operation took place and the first report that he had already been dumped in the sea. That came out to nine hours maximum. Nine hours to fly back to Bagram from Abbotabod, fly his carcass to the Carl Vinson, wash his sorry arse and wrap it in Muslim tradition and give him a religious ceremony. That's a lot to do in nine hours and an autopsy is against muzzie beliefs and takes a fair amount of time.

You imagine things, I read things.

233 posted on 05/02/2011 12:47:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Ditto

LOL. They killed a martyr who looked like OBL after plastic surgery.The military has been grifted too.

Thats why the body was deep sixed right after it went aboard the USS Karl Vincent.

If it had indeed been OBL, the body would have been handed over to NATO for independent forensic verification of death.
An easy thing to do. The whole thing is a scam.

I am laughing at how gullible everyone is on this. Obama has grifted everyone again. LOL.

**************************

Facts:

1)Obama has Muslim Brotherhood advisors on the White Hut staff:

ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration
http://notalemming.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/ex-cia-agent-reveals-muslim-brotherhood-has-infiltrated-obama-administration/

2)Obama is falling in the polls, 42% approval rating and going South. Gas prices and inflation are soaring

3) Obama is being attacked on proving his place of birth, so successfully he has had to respond with his own propaganda initiative, and needs a distraction.

4) Obama is a grift artist, and lives by the campaign in which false images are presented to boost his popularity, this from the outset of his presidential campaign , which has not ceased with his inauguration.

5) Obama, by his conduct on Libya, the betrayal of allies of the USA on he WOT, Mubarack and Kadaffi, shows that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the spread of the World Wide Caliphate movement into North Africa and sub Saharan Africa.

Conclusion: I do not believe a thing that Obama does and says. If Osama Bin Laden is dead, I give credit to George W Bush who launched the Bin Laden hunt program years ago.But given the above stated facts, there is more than an even chance that his whole situation was staged to falsely END the hunt for Bin Laden, who may be even now lapsing into a comfortable anonymous retirement in a secret location.Taquiya,a major component of the Muslin Brotherhood that now is daily advising a traitorous president.Given Obamas thuggishness, his history of concealing all of his personal record, I objectively conclude that Bin Laden is alive and well and kicking back somewhere very safe.All the details of Osama Bin Ladens proof of death could easily have been staged. The body is so disfigured, that no visual ID can be made, and he was allegedly buried at sea. Sorry....no cigar.The body should have been brought to the USA and a very careful verification completed.It was not. Obama lies.

There is no true forensic independent verfication which should have beeen given as proof to NATO Allies.Indeed the body should have been handed over to NATO for verification of identity.Why was it not? I conclude Bin Laden was not killed.


234 posted on 05/02/2011 12:48:43 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: TigersEye

Facts:

1)Obama has Muslim Brotherhood advisors on the White Hut staff:

ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration
http://notalemming.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/ex-cia-agent-reveals-muslim-brotherhood-has-infiltrated-obama-administration/

2)Obama is falling in the polls, 42% approval rating and going South. Gas prices and inflation are soaring

3) Obama is being attacked on proving his place of birth, so successfully he has had to respond with his own propaganda initiative, and needs a distraction.

4) Obama is a grift artist, and lives by the campaign in which false images are presented to boost his popularity, this from the outset of his presidential campaign , which has not ceased with his inauguration.

5) Obama, by his conduct on Libya, the betrayal of allies of the USA on he WOT, Mubarack and Kadaffi, shows that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the spread of the World Wide Caliphate movement into North Africa and sub Saharan Africa.

Conclusion: I do not believe a thing that Obama does and says. If Osama Bin Laden is dead, I give credit to George W Bush who launched the Bin Laden hunt program years ago.But given the above stated facts, there is more than an even chance that his whole situation was staged to falsely END the hunt for Bin Laden, who may be even now lapsing into a comfortable anonymous retirement in a secret location.Taquiya,a major component of the Muslin Brotherhood that now is daily advising a traitorous president.Given Obamas thuggishness, his history of concealing all of his personal record, I objectively conclude that Bin Laden is alive and well and kicking back somewhere very safe.All the details of Osama Bin Ladens proof of death could easily have been staged. The body is so disfigured, that no visual ID can be made, and he was allegedly buried at sea. Sorry....no cigar.The body should have been brought to the USA and a very careful verification completed.It was not. Obama lies.

There is no true forensic independent verfication which should have beeen given as proof to NATO Allies.Indeed the body should have been handed over to NATO for verification of identity.Why was it not? I conclude Bin Laden was not killed.


235 posted on 05/02/2011 12:50:35 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
There is no true forensic independent verfication which should have beeen given as proof to NATO Allies.Indeed the body should have been handed over to NATO for verification of identity.

They supposedly extracted DNA from UBL and were able to analyze it in a matter of hours before they dumped him in the ocean? I thought it would take days or weeks. The whole thing stinks. Like you said...the big-eared one needed a distraction, like when Klinton blew up an aspirin factory.

236 posted on 05/02/2011 12:58:01 PM PDT by azishot (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: Candor7
They killed a martyr who looked like OBL after plastic surgery.The military has been grifted too.

And you know this how?

If it had indeed been OBL, the body would have been handed over to NATO for independent forensic verification of death. An easy thing to do. The whole thing is a scam.

You can keep repeating that over and over, but when did we ever hand a body over to NATO for 'independent forensic verification?' Give me an example? And why not take your tin foil a step further? How could you trust NATO to tell the truth?

Now take it a step further. Let's say you are right -- it wasn't Bin Laden and all those SEALS and CIA covert ops people who have been putting their lives on the line tracking the bastard down got fooled by a bunch of two-bit Chicago hustlers.

What then keeps Bin Laden from poping up in another video and sending Obama's poll numbers to zero?

Frankly, your parinoid rants are making FreeRepublic look foolish.

237 posted on 05/02/2011 1:08:25 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: STARWISE
Russian Secret Service confirms it was ObL's double!


238 posted on 05/02/2011 1:11:49 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Obama couldn’t have stayed in the house. It wasn’t built until 2005.


239 posted on 05/02/2011 1:14:27 PM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: TigersEye
You imagine things, I read things.

Apparently, you didn't read this.

The Americans took Bin Laden's body into custody after the firefight, taking it back to Afghanistan by helicopter, and confirmed his identity. His DNA matched DNA taken from a sister who had died of brain cancer in Boston.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/khalid-sheikh-muhammad-capture-osama-bin-laden-courier/story?id=13506413&page=2


240 posted on 05/02/2011 1:37:08 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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