Posted on 05/02/2011 8:08:58 PM PDT by RummyChick
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So what happened to the other people??
“Other unidentified males who survived were flown from the scene, while four children and two women, including Bin Laden’s daughter Safia, were taken away in an ambulance.”
I beleive OBL carried an AKS-74U not an AK-47.
Why didn’t his daughter get a say in how Osama would be buried?
Okay, so he is a war criminal, or whatever the proper designation is...but...doesn’t the family get a say in what happens to his body???
The UK is saying that the helicopter could have been shot down by rocket propelled grenades.
Sunday 2 p.m. Obama meets with his national security team to review final preparations on the assault.
Time unknown: 4 American helicopters depart Tarbela Ghazi airbase in north-west Pakistan
Sunday 3:50 p.m. Obama learns that Bin Laden had been “tentatively identified.”
Sunday 4:00pm Sleeping Abbottabad citizens awoken by the clatter of four military helicopters thought to be two Black Hawks and two Chinooks.
Firefight claimed to have lasted 40 minutes
Time unknown-Osama body flown by helicopter to a US base in Afghanistan for DNA and facial testing
6:50+pm president was told, after the operation, that there was a “high probability” that it had been the Al Qaeda leader who had been killed in the operation.
Time unknown-Osama body flown by helicopter to the USS Carl Vinson in the North Arabian sea
Monday 1:10AM- Preparations for at-sea [burial] began
Monday 2:00 AM Burial completed
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Looking at the timeline, the firefight ended no earlier than 4:40pm
So they had to take pics.
Tag and bag the body.
Fly 200-250 miles to a US airbase in Afghanistan by helicopter
Land, remove the body, conduct DNA and facial testing.
Repack the body, reload onto another helicopter.
Fly apprx 800-1000 miles and land on a US ship in the North Arabian Sea.
All in less than 8 1/2 hours as burial at sea preparations began at 1:10AM.
Not saying its not possible, not saying Osama is alive or any other type conspiracy, just curious if anyone else finds the timeline hard to believe.
I wonder if anyone else noticed that the land of his compund looks like Israel from the side, with UBL’s room right about where Jerusalem would be. Just an interesting coincidence.
I saw one report that the helicopter lifted off at 4:15
There is a twitter post from someone near there at the time this was going down. He posted that he heard helicopters.
No.
Nice waterbed osama. Didn’t they go out around 1989?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bin-laden-tweets-20110503,0,2868654.story
“Athar and Shah began sending out tweets, or 140-character messages, shortly before 1 a.m. in Pakistan, documenting abnormal helicopter flybys, a copter crash and then an explosion.”
The families of war criminals have little say in the matter. It is up to the discretion of the convening authority.
I still don’t get how the noise of the approaching choppers didn’t alert them and give him some time to try and make an escape. Maybe we can get them pretty quiet if we need to, and by the time anyone heard anything we were already on the scene. Also, maybe you just get tired of running at some point. He dedicated his life to fighting America, and after all this time America finally showed up at his doorstep and obliged him. But the fact they got in and out so cleanly was very impressive.
Early AARs suggest UBLs youngest wife wasn’t KIA. So this overview appears wrong. I can also assure you not all (if any) SEAL trigger pullers were carrying M4s.
Yeah, that’s what he carried even if it might not work half the time, though I expect he could afford a Russian model.
Popularly known as a `krinkov’ or krink, but not it’s real name. The Russians had a nickname for it: meant `cigarette butt.’
If you wanted to be a fashionable tribal gunman in Pakistan or Afghanistan you got one of those. Perfect for a poser like Usama bin Ladin: Rest in piss you SOB.
No. That bastard lost any right to a funeral or whatever it is they were after when he had 3000 Americans killed.
Yes, I agree. Obama appears to have a AK-74 in that pic.
Not to mention OBL was brought to an aircraft carrier with a crew of around 6,000. I’m curious what the security was like, who was allowed on the flight deck and witnessed it, was it shown on the ship’s CCTV? What kind of tales are going to eminate from the crew of the Carl Vinson? My bet is the vast majority of the crew was unaware of what happened until “it” was over, only to be briefed after the fact.
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