We sure are hearing a lot about the anniversary of the raid which took out Bin Laden.
Obama and his henchmen sure do like talking about how rough and tough Obama is, that he made the gutsy call to take out Bin Laden and all that.
Well, to paraphrase Joe Biden, it was the gutsiest most audacious military operation of the last 500 years. And who made the call? Well Obama made the call, because he’s so rough and tough..............
How many conservatives will vote for Obama because of this 1 action? Why are the Obamabots playing this up so much???????
Geez...the comments!
I got in a fight with liberal relatives because they’re against waterboarding since “torture doesn’t work”....even “John McCain says so”.
They would stand by while a city exploded. Seriously.
As a US senator, 0bama never voted >for< anything that was good for our military. He always voted against anything for them to accomplish their missions. Hypocritical bastard.
The author and the title are correct.
President Bush took out Bin Laden. Died in cave, crushed beneath tons of rock.
Obama killed the ‘image’ of Bin Laden, that the Muzzies were trying to ‘project’.
The guy they killed in Pakistan was a relative. Pakistan harbored Bin Laden’s family, but not ole Binny.
That is why the body was unceremonially dumped in the ocean.
What Obama did is authorize the killing of some members of Bin Laden’s family, and claim it was Bin Laden, therefore removing the ‘symbol’ of Bin Laden’s leadership. It was a pawn being moved off the table.
It was a good move, and needed to be done. Obama didn’t want to do it because he was more worried about it disturbing the Muzzies than he was about the safety of our country.
Ha!
If this is what Obama’s campaign is all about.......
they got nuttin’.
Bah. Osama died years ago.
Watch the liar spin, brag, and kill the seal witnesses.
I'm going back to try to find her "explosive specch"....
Now have to go back and see when they first found out about the complex...think this was about the same time.
My previous post says we got intelligence in May & August of 2010. May was the first time (I believe) that Hillary blurts out that Pakistan knows where Osama is....
I love this guy Rodriquez. He is my new hero. I loved hearing him tell Lesley Stahl that what she said was “b*llsh*t”.
He must be making heads on the left explode, speaking truth to power in his Spanish accent.
Maybe Romney can get him as veep?
BTTT
So many questions from this article.
“We later intercepted communications KSM sent to fellow detainees at the black site, in which he instructed them: “Tell them nothing about the courier!”
Does this mean that KSM was able to commuicate with this black site while in detention?
Who is the un-named terrorist?
Some explanation on special operations is needed to sort out the “he said, she said” cacophony going on.
There are many intel pursuits going on all the time on many HVT’s in safe houses all over AfPak. The HVT’s are almost always on the move between safe houses, very difficult to know when to pull the trigger.
After Tora Bora, UBL had three distinct safe havens, localized areas where a number of safe houses existed, fully stocked by some local and available 24/7.
UBL’s entire problem was the wives and kids, very easy to spot their movement. We knew the wives would constantly demand more comfort and stability. His youngest wife refused to live in caves and underground and actually left UBL and went back to Yemen until he agreed to leave Tora Bora at about the same time as our attack.
When UBL left Tora Bora because of the family’s complaints we knew he would be heading for a more urban area as soon as a big enough safe house could be built.
That took years for us to figure out because we needed a network of locals all over Pakistan, that were reliable, like doctors and lawyers, and well paid.
We found UBL not because intel pointed out where he was, but where he wasn’t...... That’s the kicker, it takes years to sort out.
I think UBL would have been safer in Quetta, hiding among the Baloch as they are hard to bribe, but they constantly bicker and quarrel, loose lips.
No brainer that UBL avoided Pakhtun areas as they are very gossipy and easy to bribe.
We knew UBL was somewhere in NE Pakistan as his videos to Al Jazeera came out of N India on virtually the same pathway and couriers.
When a target gets paranoid they cut back on the familiars around them. Familiars find safe pathways and tend to stick with them. If there are only 2-3 handoffs and you find a courier it is fairly easy to track back.
We knew UBL wasn’t going anywhere from Abottabad with all that family to move, so no hurry, let’s see who the visitors are..... We want Z badly, more than UBL.
When we realized there were no visitors to harvest, the raid was on.
On chain of command: McRaven makes the call if the HVT decides to move. If no urgency, Panetta makes the call. Obama is only informed of the decision after assets are in place, but has only a veto regarding the “go”.
If the POTUS says nothing, the raid is on. Obama’s posturing about saying “go” is not true as that is an operational command not available to him, he can only say “no”.
The POTUS has already signed off on the HVT kill or capture list by a secret Presidential Memo.
Very unlikely that any WH staffers like Jarrett had any knowledge of the raid.