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SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden’s death
Washington Times ^

Posted on 08/29/2012 5:28:00 AM PDT by Perdogg

firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

Bin Laden apparently was hit in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door into the top-floor hallway of his compound as SEALs rushed up a narrow stairwell in his direction, according to former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen in “No Easy Day.” The book is to be published next week by Penguin Group (USA)’s Dutton imprint.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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1 posted on 08/29/2012 5:28:00 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

So what? He claimed credit for 9/11. Guilty. Punishable by death.

Big deal. Have a nice time in hell, bin Laden!


2 posted on 08/29/2012 5:31:17 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (John Roberts did more to endanger the lives of Americans than all 9/11 hijackers combined.)
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To: Perdogg

Everything about this administration is phoney. From the bin Laden account to the unemployment numbers, to the economic reporting. It’s all a sham.

And the corrupt MSM have all sold out to support and facilitate all the Obama lies and illusions.


3 posted on 08/29/2012 5:33:40 AM PDT by Obadiah (If Reagan had another son he would have looked like Paul Ryan.)
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To: Perdogg
I hope every one of his 76 virgins look like Helen Thomas.


4 posted on 08/29/2012 5:35:35 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I concur 100%. Let's just be honest and call it what it was - an assassination. Don't let Obama hide behind a wall of words, but stand up like a man and claim full credit or blame as the guy who gave the order.
5 posted on 08/29/2012 5:35:42 AM PDT by LaserJock
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To: Perdogg
raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

Who gives a rat's ass. If it's OK to drop bombs on his cave in Tora Bora, why is it questionable when he is simply shot on sight.

I wouldn't care if they'd hosed him down with a flame thrower and then watched him run around screaming until he fell down dead.

6 posted on 08/29/2012 5:36:01 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Perdogg
One of the SEALs said after the mission that they had just gotten Obama re-elected by carrying out the raid.

Don't kid yourself - 0bama would've never have finally approved the raid if it wasn't required to help him hang on to power.

Bin Laden got much better than he deserved, although I sure his muzzie bro 0bama would've rather seen him on vacation at Gitmo until Hussein decided to free him like he's done with countless other terrorist muzzies.

7 posted on 08/29/2012 5:36:31 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: Perdogg

Osama was plugged in the brain-box when he poked his ugly mug out of his bedroom door? I’m good with that.


8 posted on 08/29/2012 5:41:18 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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To: Obadiah
I wish there was a way to shame the left-wing media into honesty, but they are incapable of shame or honor. Plus, the wackos believe what they are spouting.

It is funny and sad to see when one strays and starts to see the truth on something, then they get corrected and act like they never doubted the party line... even when shown video evidence of themselves doing it.

It is Orwellian.

9 posted on 08/29/2012 5:43:25 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Osama was plugged in the brain-box when he poked his ugly mug out of his bedroom door? I’m good with that..

Personally, I don’t really care how he died. He is dead! Now on to the next one..........


10 posted on 08/29/2012 5:45:33 AM PDT by Progov
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To: Perdogg

raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

Okay stop with the horse shit.
Seals are not police officers. Our military is not a police force. We have allowed this to get out of hand. The military exists to blow things up and kill people. PERIOD.
Bin Laden was an enemy soldier, we are at war, he presented as a target, he is dead. End of story.


11 posted on 08/29/2012 5:46:50 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: tx_eggman

That, imho, would also have been too merciful. I don’t support -real torture- but Osama deserved the most painful death ever created. What he did to so many innocent lives... The peace he shattered.

His body should have been placed in the bottom of a public latrine.


12 posted on 08/29/2012 5:47:15 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I really don’t believe he ever gave approval. He delayed several times. Then he is once again on a golf course and has to be pulled off in the middle of his game to come see the results of “his raid”? Yeah, right.

Someone else had to make the call in spite of Obama.


13 posted on 08/29/2012 5:49:28 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Perdogg

This whole thing is a fiction. From Hillary gasping with her hand over her mouth while watching Looney Tunes, to the disposal of the body to this latest White House reformulation.

How many times can they change the story?


14 posted on 08/29/2012 5:50:48 AM PDT by bereanway
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To: All

So the “real story” went like this.. Obama hit nine consecutive holes-in-one, jumped into the SR-71 (which he piloted of course), jetted off to Costellostan and free-jumped into the choppers in flight, grabbed a customized .99 caliber Barrett rifle, shot Osama in the eye while repelling down and simultaneously send out the Stuxnet virus to Iran. He then dropped into the home, saved all the children and repaired the broken helo while writing his speech and then jumped back into the waiting SR71 and zoomed home getting dressed in the process..

got it.


15 posted on 08/29/2012 5:51:02 AM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: newnhdad

So you are a member of the MSM, huh?


16 posted on 08/29/2012 5:57:47 AM PDT by Obadiah (If Reagan had another son he would have looked like Paul Ryan.)
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To: Perdogg

Obama was slumped down in his chair. looking like the kid who was sent to the principles office in a now famous photo from that day. I believe the only thing he had to do with this event is the “taking credit campaign” that Valarie Jarrett has invented for him. As for how OBL died, GW said it was like the posters from the old west “Wanted” any means will do!


17 posted on 08/29/2012 5:58:01 AM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: newnhdad

What I want to know is how you got hold of the pre-publication manuscript of the story the DNC will release the week of the Dem convention?


18 posted on 08/29/2012 6:00:20 AM PDT by Pecos (Double tap: the only acceptable gun control)
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To: swamprebel

He signed off on the mission when he realized that the first 3 turn-downs would eventually get out and Osama would again go to ground.


19 posted on 08/29/2012 6:34:19 AM PDT by AU72
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To: tx_eggman

“I wouldn’t care if they’d hosed him down with a flame thrower and then watched him run around screaming until he fell down dead. “

Neither would I. I just wish they had taken pictures of his dead body before dumping him into the sea. Conspiracy theorists either think he is still alive, or that he’s been dead for years.

Knowing this administration’s tenuous hold on the truth. I’d like to see proof.


20 posted on 08/29/2012 6:37:57 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: bereanway

How many times can they change the story?

I also remember hearing that the seals died in a crash. To many different stories.


21 posted on 08/29/2012 6:46:52 AM PDT by mouse1
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To: FreeAtlanta
Someone else had to make the call in spite of Obama.

It was Panetta who gave the green light to GO

22 posted on 08/29/2012 6:59:05 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama - Can you afford to keep him?)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

> Okay stop with the horse shit.
> Seals are not police officers. Our military is not a police force. We have allowed this to get out of hand. The military exists to blow things up and kill people. PERIOD.
> Bin Laden was an enemy soldier, we are at war, he presented as a target, he is dead. End of story.

Well put.
My opinion is ditto.


23 posted on 08/29/2012 7:13:23 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The First Amendment is a large caliber weapon. USE IT !!!)
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To: Perdogg

Only—ONLY!—in 21st Century America would this even be brought up as an issue.


24 posted on 08/29/2012 7:18:29 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: mouse1

SEALs from the SEAL team 6 died in the crash, but not any that were on the mission. That was the report.


25 posted on 08/29/2012 7:21:36 AM PDT by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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To: Perdogg

Contrast the book to the movie that Hollywood will be releasing prior to the election...the glorification of Messiah Obama.


26 posted on 08/29/2012 7:35:28 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: New Jersey Realist
I hope every one of his 76 virgins look like Helen Thomas.

I was hoping they were all male, but in Helen's case, perhaps its a tie.
27 posted on 08/29/2012 11:56:35 AM PDT by krogers58
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To: Perdogg
From the Daily Mail: 'Osama Bin Laden was unarmed and ALREADY DYING when Navy SEALs burst into bedroom': Shocking claim by retired soldier that threatens to debunk official story of raid

This may be the author's most dangerous mission.


28 posted on 08/29/2012 12:30:47 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Perdogg
firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

I know it's an unpopular view around here, especially in today's tell-all society, but we should not be hearing about any first-hand accounts of any raids by our special operations folks.

If people start spilling the beans on this stuff, it could endanger future missions, and the life of one of our special operations folks is not worth correcting that smarmy little lib in the White House.
29 posted on 08/30/2012 5:52:01 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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