The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden (Not so secret now)

The National Journal ^ | Monday, May 2, 2011 | Marc Ambinder

[Sacajaweau]

Said it eartlier. Great minds think alike!!

[BigFinn]

My new bumper sticker:

OBL BIN SEALED.

[Sir Napsalot]

Navy SEALS 2
Bad guys 0

Navy SEALs Sniper team will shoot pirates (in the head) on Easter Sunday; Navy SEALs Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru) making sure Osama bin DEAD (also in the head).

Hot d’mn, with the real handsome photos of our heros (not identifiable to protect them), if this is not some awesome recruiting material, I don’t know what is.

[Pan_Yan]

... any firefight over 3 minutes is a VERY long firefight.

I would guess the firefight was short. Most of the 40 minutes would have been identifying bodies and collecting every scrap of paper, laptop, CD and memory stick in the place. I doubt there are very many people working harder yesterday and today than the intel guys. Got to get 'em while they're fresh.

[WayneS]

Yes, because when your brain gets vaporized by a bullet, NATURALLY, you die!

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[WayneS]

If there is justice in the after-life he will spend eternity in the seventh circle of hell being sodomized at both ends by wild boars.

[MHGinTN]

[Georgia Girl 2]

Dust to dust. Brain to pink mist.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Hopefully well find something that’ll lead us to zawahiri.

[ASOC]

OBL is DOA, ho-rah.

How much better, knowing where the cat is, to send a car bonb (or just a car and then add a Mk84) - and blame the explosion on a faction within AQ? Get them fighting each other.

[OrioleFan]

Well, we all know who Time’s Man-of-the-Year is gonna be...

[RitaOK]

Anybody ever read why Major Garrett of FOX left for the National Journal?

[FReepaholic]

...One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double tap -- boom, boom -- to the left side of his face. ..

Boom Boom Out Go the Lights

Sung by Little Walter

No kiddin'
I'm ready to fight
I've been lookin' for my baby all night
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lights

I thought I treat my baby fair
Now she's kiddin' all in my hair
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lights

No kiddin'
I'm ready to go
When I find her boy don't you know
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lights

I never been so mad before
When I found out she ain't mine no more
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! out go the lights

[ctdonath2]

Dunno how to phrase it well, but “foreign military helicopter crashes on military base/school’s lawn as part of an attack on a high value target just down the street” has got to suck for someone. Kinda like a karate black belt getting mugged, and his date looking at him going “WTF?”

[TigersEye]

Great article here.

[OrioleFan]

Obama passed on the opportunity twice:

"One administration official said that Obama advisers presented him with the option of bombing the compound. Advisers also presented the president with plans to conduct raids on the compound on two other occasions, but Obama rejected the plan, according to another administration official."

[mad_as_he$$]

This is/was common knowledge in the public view. Nothing new here other than they are the ones that did it. BTW I would be very surprised if it was anyone other than ST6.

[crazydad]

How Ironic he died in the year with the two twin towers staring him in the face. 2011. Eat Shit Osama.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Great article...very informative.