Nicholas Schmidle writes a Clancy worthy report in the latest New Yorker on how the attack on the compound in Abbottadad went down. Looks like interviews from the ground team and insight from the key planners was the major input to his article.
Answers many of the questions you know you've asked.
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Getting Bin Laden - How It All Went Down
Started by Burn-E, Aug 01 2011 09:13 PM
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 08:57 PM
I laughed. Give it ten years.
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 09:41 PM
You laughed because most of it was fiction and no one would leak this level of true detail so soon? I was contemplating that question - those guys don't talk. Then again I wouldn't put it past the Obama administration to want to build a hero story around taking Osama down. So maybe it is Clancy worthy in that it's more fiction than truth? 
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Posted 06 August 2011 - 07:47 PM
i have a hard enough time figuring out what, from my past meals, made up the shit im currently looking at in the toilet. So i dont bother trying to figure out how it all went down.
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Posted 07 August 2011 - 02:11 PM
The truth:
Imagine living with 3 wives in one compound and never leaving the house for 5 years.
It is now believed that Bin Laden called the US Navy Seals himself.
Imagine living with 3 wives in one compound and never leaving the house for 5 years.
It is now believed that Bin Laden called the US Navy Seals himself.
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Posted 07 August 2011 - 04:53 PM
Americans have mouthy wives, not muslims.
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Posted 22 August 2011 - 04:11 AM
Che, on 07 August 2011 - 04:53 PM, said:
Americans have mouthy wives, not muslims.
They're still women though
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Posted 22 August 2011 - 12:33 PM
New tin foil hat report? We shot our own helicopter down, to silence the ' truth'. Osama has been dead for 5-7 yrs, there's no way a gentic renal disease could have been treated in caves. NO Dialysis gear was found or photographed in his compound. NO pics of the body, and an extremely weak excuse to bury him at sea for Muslim reasons. So, SOCOM troops wacked 31 of their own to make the Prez look like a hero.
SOme questions ther for sure, but WTF. There is no way any SOCOM troops are going to wack his own brother for anybody. I submit the Prez would catch a beatin before that happened...interpret that as you will.
SOme questions ther for sure, but WTF. There is no way any SOCOM troops are going to wack his own brother for anybody. I submit the Prez would catch a beatin before that happened...interpret that as you will.
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Posted 16 September 2011 - 11:11 AM
Che, on 07 August 2011 - 04:53 PM, said:
Americans have mouthy wives, not muslims.
No
Imagine 3 of them.. Maybe a Volvo in the garage...
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Posted 16 September 2011 - 02:46 PM
A Fatwa is coming your way now, boy did you just screw up. THAT is hot tho.
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