SEAL Helmet Cams (on Each of the 25) Recorded Entire bin Laden Raid

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Source: CBS News

WASHINGTON - A new picture emerged Thursday of what really happened the night the Navy SEALs swooped in on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the 40 minutes it took to kill bin Laden and scoop his archives into garbage bags were all recorded by tiny helmet cameras worn by each of the 25 SEALs.

Officials reviewing those videos are still reconstructing a more accurate version of what happened. We now know that the only firefight took place in the guest house, where one of bin Laden's couriers opened fire and was quickly gunned down. No one in the main building got off a shot or was even armed, although there were weapons nearby.

The SEALs first saw bin Laden when he came out on the third floor landing. They fired, but missed. He retreated to his bedroom, and the first SEAL through the door grabbed bin Laden's daughters and pulled them aside.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/12/eveningnews/main20062410.shtml#ixzz1MBaMWYkj

[tblue37]

1. Interesting point from the article:

Ruppersberger said, "He kept all that information and he kept all of the data, computers, hard drives and this is what we're analyzing and it shows that his focus was clearly the United States."

U.S. officials cannot understand why bin Laden apparently left what amounts to the keys to his terrorist kingdom just lying around his compound in plain sight -- none of it rigged for self destruction.The killing of Osama bin Laden

Why didn't bin Laden protect his files? The best guess is he thought the United States would never find him <emphasis added>.

I think he figured that the ISI would keep him safe. He was so well protected by them and by our tiptoeing around Pakistan as both a sovereign state and an important "ally" that it never occurred to him that the US might end up inside his compound at all.

[malaise]

3. Maybe he was told they were no longer looking for him

Wait- Bush said so publicly !!

[Sedona]

2. Can't help but think of this scene from Aliens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ5J8ZiS2f8