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jakeXT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 02:46 PM
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Shot in the left eye after he refused to surrender:Reconstruction of how U.S. hit squad took out OBL
Shot in the left eye after he refused to surrender: Dramatic reconstruction of how U.S. hit squad took out Bin Laden

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After several run-throughs and the diplomatic blessing of the Pakistani government, a small special forces team of U.S. Navy Seals landed in the compound grounds yesterday with the explicit instruction - get Osama bin Laden, dead or alive.

The raid on the compound, which was just 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy, was launched at about 1.15am in the morning, according to witnesses. Four U.S. helicopters took off from the Ghazi air base in northwest Pakistan.

Bin Laden's guards opened fire from the roof and one of the helicopters crashed.

During an operation that took just 40 minutes from start to finish, Bin Laden was shot in the left eye in a firefight as he tried to evade capture. Three of his men were also killed along with a woman they tried to use as a human shield. One of Bin Laden's eleven sons was said to be among the dead.


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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382645/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-How-Navy-Seals-killed-Al-Qaeda-chief-near-Islamabad.html#ixzz1LE4CK1IO


Maybe Jessica Lynch can proof read this one
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 02:48 PM
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1. 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy?
Were they protecting him?
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 02:52 PM
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2. This story is fishy to me
I saw the Google earth maps and there did not appear to be anything resembling a military academy anywhere close.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 02:57 PM
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3. Well they called the women a human shield
Edited on Mon May-02-11 03:04 PM by RandomThoughts
instead of female worker or associate at the compound, so there is some working of the text that makes the credibility a little less.

If the guy was living in the middle of a compound, for years without capture, did he have that lady there as human shield for years, it is a bit spinny.

Unless his human shield was USA ma, the idea of forever war, and terror used on the population, that would make sense.

Could be to remove the concept of non combatant, or civilian casualty.



:shrug:

Either way I am still due beer and travel money and many experiences.







Seriously, if you look at what kept him alive, part of that was a few that wanted forever war, that were in USA system private and public. The idea of having a boogey man to subdue a population, look at the use of controls implemented, in the name of security, that are about data gathering, or that are used to try and take the beer and travel money from just people fighting for due process.

Look at the Patriot Act, the 'Bin Laden' allowed that to pass, when it is about stripping rights not about terrorism.


And I do like this song, and don't think it is about that topic. But about concepts of ending the terror state.

Eminem - Mosh Music Video Hq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M9MTle-8AM
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:16 PM
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11. Side note.
Edited on Mon May-02-11 04:18 PM by RandomThoughts
If you think this song is about Osama being taken out.


Eminem - Mosh Music Video Hq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M9MTle-8AM

Then it would be that song group being sniped by your bad association by correlation, that does not match the concept.

So the very thought of that admirable group, going against forever war and psyops, thought to be on the wrong side by some, is the getting sniped, becuase he wants you to stand up for the USA with Constitutional rights.

Not what you think, and what you think is the sniping of his better idea, not the symbol recently in the news.


So if you think, "If I get snipped tonight you will know why" is Osama, you are Snipping Eminem's better thoughts, and you know why. Because you can only see the correlating event, not the meaning of the entire song.
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:37 PM
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12. Eminem isn't a group FYI
Just one dude who can rap his ass off..

Check out his album "Recovery"

greatness...

Cold Wind Blows--
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqjmf9GUP0

You can get the dick, just call me the ballsack, I’m nuts
Michael Vick in this bitch, Dog fall back you mutts
fuck your worms, you never seen such a sick puppy
fuck it a sick duck, I want my duck sick mummy
And my nuts licked, gobble ‘em up trick, yummy
b**ch you don’t fucking think that I know that you suck dick dummy?
You’ll get your butt kicked, fuck all that love shit honey
Yeah I laugh when I call you a slut, it’s funny!
Shawty dance while I diss you to the beat, fuck the words
You don’t listen to ‘em anyway, yeah struck a nerve sucker
Motherfucker might aswell let my lips pucker
Like Elton John, cause I’m just a mean cock sucker
This shit is on, cause you wen’t and pissed me off
Now I’m sitting and pissing on everbody
give a fuck if it’s right or wrong
So buck the buddah, light a bong
But take a look at mariah the next time I inspire you to write a song, cmon

Read more: http://www.killerhiphop.com/cold-wind-blows-lyrics-eminem/#ixzz1LEWfcwh8
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Zen Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:59 PM
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13. Brennan said the woman was one of OBL's wives.
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:41 PM
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6. It's in Kakul, not far from Abbottabad. It has been there for over 60 years, and ...
it's existence has never been a secret.
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DFab420 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 06:10 PM
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17. Lol...Sorry man.."I have seen the google maps and I KNOW what a base looks like"
I can't help but laugh...

I'm sure you and the military both use the same google map service :/....

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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:09 PM
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10. The ISI has connections with the Taliban,
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:09 PM
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4. Nope...
more like 1800 metres.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:18 PM
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5. did U.S. capture any hostiles?
I haven't heard that addressed. Presumably not everyone there was killed. Some documents were seized, we were told that today.

But were any prisoners taken alive?
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IrishBuckeye Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:06 PM
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8. Yes, who we dont know.
Women and children included in the mix though.
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 05:03 PM
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14. They were handed over to Pakistani authorities, according to news reports I've read.
Edited on Mon May-02-11 05:04 PM by ClarkUSA
The only survivors were women and children, including the OBL wife who called him by his name after he was killed.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:03 PM
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7. So Osama got the Moe Greene Special..
Cool!
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Hotler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 05:13 PM
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15.  That kid's name was Moe Greene
"Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go."
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:08 PM
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9. Not buying parts of this :
"After several run-throughs and the diplomatic blessing of the Pakistani government, a small special forces team of U.S. Navy Seals landed ..."

Also the article says we worked closely with Pak Intelligence. I don't believe it.
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Abq_Sarah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 06:08 PM
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16. I don't believe it either
If they had known we were coming, bin Laden would have been long gone.

President Obama kept a tight lid on bin Laden's location and this operation and that's why it succeeded.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 06:11 PM
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18. I heard on tv that Pakistan is trying to claim some credit for the successful raid.
IOWs - they are just making shit up cause people are pissed that Osama was happily living undisturbed right down the street.
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Abq_Sarah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 07:14 PM
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19. They don't want to admit
The USA could enter their country, conduct a military operation in a city home to 3 regiments and their premier military academy and then scoot across the border before they could scramble their jets.
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