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 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.
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.
Couldn’t it have been a faster, longer-range fixed-wing Navy aircraft, such as a C-2 Greyhound, rather than helicopter, that transported the bullet-ridden cargo the 800-1000 miles to the USS Carl Vinson?
Shuuuush!.....Can’t u just move along like everybody else?? *G*
I hope we caught UBL, claimed he was dead and as we speak, he’s sitting at Gitmo waiting for his 24th straight hour of waterboarding.
I thought I heard Greta mention that the mission was executed days earlier, but was interrupted by Bret Baier indicating it happened hours earlier. I didn’t have it on PVR, so I couldn’t review. Maybe I completely misunderstood what Greta uttered.