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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: paulycy

There’s just one problem with the Tora Bora bull, the same as it ever has been — there’s no evidence. It’s never been anything but wishful thinking.


261 posted on 05/02/2011 6:27:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; colorado tanker; gleeaikin

Definitely!
262 posted on 05/02/2011 6:37:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv
There’s just one problem with the Tora Bora bull, the same as it ever has been — there’s no evidence. It’s never been anything but wishful thinking.

Exactly...these 'folks' tend to forget about the audios/videos that make reference to much more current events.

263 posted on 05/02/2011 6:42:47 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: TigersEye
Whoda thunk Afghanistan was the country with a lab like that? Now how about that autopsy, x-ray and other forensic matching?

Fast Forensic Test Can Match Suspects' DNA With Crime Samples in Four Hours

As to the autopsy and x-rays, I'd venture to say that any US Aircraft Carrier has better medical facilities than any hospital in the region. Don't doubt that the guy was sliced and diced, x-rayed and photos up the kazoo before he was feed to the sharks --- with full Islamic ritual of course.

264 posted on 05/02/2011 8:15:31 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Candor7

Correct analysis.


265 posted on 05/02/2011 8:53:18 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Ditto

DNA evidence is emminantly transient. Very easy to alter or impose on any forensic scene.You otta know that.

The body should have been forensically verified also by our Allies and instead was deep sixed before it was cold?

NATO nations spent millions hunting for OBL, and they didn’t even get a cursory nod? What a laugh.

I think the scam was organized in Pakistan with Obamas covert Muslim Brotherhood back door help. THe US military was fed false intel and killed a OBL double who was a volunteer martyr. Sadamm Hussein had 5 surgically altered doubles and he was a piker compared to OSB.Sorry, IMHO, the US military and America have been had, royally.

Taqiya. And OBL is kicking back somewhere in the Hindu Kush, not another worry in the world.NICE GRIFT, eh?


266 posted on 05/02/2011 9:12:45 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Correct analysis>>>>>>>>>>>>>

One wonders what the Mossad is discussing in their classified briefings.


267 posted on 05/02/2011 9:57:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Ditto

If they autopsied him then the whole “handling his body with respect” is a complete farce. If they didn’t then the intelligence/identification aspect is a total farce.


268 posted on 05/02/2011 10:36:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: colorado tanker

Obama campaign slogan for 2012 : “Vote for Me; For once I didn’t get in the way and fug everything up.”


269 posted on 05/03/2011 1:19:16 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Candor7
You are going to believe in a conspiracy regardless of any evidence.

If you ever meet a Navy SEAL, why don't you tell him all about this scam.

270 posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:52 AM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: TigersEye
If they autopsied him then the whole “handling his body with respect” is a complete farce.

Why?

271 posted on 05/03/2011 4:49:23 AM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: TigersEye; Ditto
If they autopsied him then the whole “handling his body with respect” is a complete farce. If they didn’t then the intelligence/identification aspect is a total farce. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exactly. Tangos of OBL's prominence are not shuffled off with a few verses of the Koran on a US ship of the line. Thats campaign fodder.Complete autopsy with NATO reps in attendence and redundant DNA tests done by USA and its allies were warranted.That did not happen.

It was a grift.

And thise who say this are called kooks when in fact the Obama administration was "insisting" on proof of death witghout bombing the compound in march. There is no genuine "proof of death." We are supposed to believe what we are told and go home and shut up like children after millions of tax payer dollars were spent to hunt OBL down? WHAT A LAUGH!THe American people deserved better.

272 posted on 05/03/2011 7:05:54 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

“...Did you know that there is a bounty on Soros in Thailand? And if he goes to Singapore or Malaysia, he will be immediately arrested?...”

A bounty on Soros in Thailand...ya’ll hear that?

Hmmmmmm.....there’s an interesting thought


273 posted on 05/03/2011 9:41:46 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: gleeaikin; 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’

Let’s hear it for Renditions.


274 posted on 05/03/2011 1:02:32 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable -- Daniel Webster)
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To: piasa
Barry's 2012 campaign platform should be interesting all right. Vote for me because I didn't do what I said in 2008, as in closing GITMO, trying the terrorists in civilian courts, leaving Iraq, winding down Afghanistan, working with other governments. Heck, I even violated the territorial integrity of Afghanistan by sending troops in to kill OBL without their permission!

Now won't even media-addled voters be able to figure out that sounds a lot more like Bush than Obama ver.2008?

275 posted on 05/03/2011 1:22:34 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Ditto

Don’t ask me. I didn’t come up with the rules for the insane death cult of Islam.


276 posted on 05/03/2011 6:51:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Candor7
For me it is not myself or Americans that need to be convinced that bin Laden is dead but I agree that we deserve the rock solid evidence. It is because the Muslim world will use any doubts about it to mythologize him. Many of the nuttiest will claim he is alive no matter what. That doesn't matter. What matters is the ability to clarify how nutty they are by contrasting their insanity with the bright light of incontrovertible evidence.

It was done with every other raghead HVT that has been killed for exactly that reason.

277 posted on 05/03/2011 7:01:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
Don’t ask me. I didn’t come up with the rules for the insane death cult of Islam.

You are telling me that they never do an autopsy in Islamic countries? Or is that just your guess?

Muslims strive to bury the deceased as soon as possible after death, avoiding the need for embalming or otherwise disturbing the body of the deceased. An autopsy may be performed, if necessary, but should be done with the utmost respect for the dead.

Washing and Shrouding
In preparation for burial, the family or other members of the community will wash and shroud the body. (If the deceased was killed as a martyr, this step is not performed; martyrs are buried in the clothes they died in.) The deceased will be washed respectfully, with clean and scented water, in a manner similar to how Muslims make ablutions for prayer. The body will then be wrapped in sheets of clean, white cloth (called the kafan).

Source: Islamic Funeral Rites

Apparently, if they want to consider this mad dog POS a 'martyr" we went well above and beyond what's called for in their cult by even washing his rotten corpse and wasting a perfectly good sheet before feeding him to the sharks.

278 posted on 05/03/2011 8:23:07 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: STARWISE

I suspect that OBL has actually been dead since Tora Bora. It was politically necessary to keep him “alive” because the left including the press had cast the entire effort as an attempt to kill OBL and his demise would bring a great trumpeting of “The War Is Over! We Must Bring The Troops Home!” that would have made further prosecution of the campaigns difficult if not impossible. The war was never about “getting Osama.” No major nation has ever waged or will ever wage a war to kill one man. I see it as possible that OBL is “killed” now because the Kenyan has decided to pull the plug on our defense in the Islamic War.


279 posted on 05/10/2011 7:47:48 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: arthurus
I'm not saying what you say is true/false.

Isn't it a damn shame we can't tell what is the truth.

OJerko has never given a speech to the US where he didn't lie.

280 posted on 05/10/2011 7:53:52 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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