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Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad

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  1. Esarbe Esarbe is offline

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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 2:38am)

    Sick read on the entire raid.
     

    Before the President returned to Washington, he posed for photographs with each team member and spoke with many of them, but he left one thing unsaid. He never asked who fired the kill shot, and the SEALs never volunteered to tell him.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 3:51am) in reply to Esarbe

    Just finished. Great read. Guess Obama didn't want to have any worries about where and how they would prosecute him.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 3:55am) in reply to dolphin13

    Def a great read, still very interesting despite how much has already been written.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:01am) in reply to Lord Supremo

    awesome
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:03am) in reply to Esarbe

    cool article, thx
     
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:23am) in reply to sandler1860

    that was an awesome read!
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:23am) in reply to LVpokerdealer

    Still reading, but this part is just awesome

    "Obama, though excited, was not yet prepared to order military action. John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, told me that the President’s advisers began an “interrogation of the data, to see if, by that interrogation, you’re going to disprove the theory that bin Laden was there.” The C.I.A. intensified its intelligence-collection efforts, and, according to a recent report in the Guardian, a physician working for the agency conducted an immunization drive in Abbottabad, in the hope of acquiring DNA samples from bin Laden’s children. (No one in the compound ultimately received any immunizations.)"
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:27am) in reply to BMad524

     
  9. BMad524 BMad524 is offline

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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 5:02am) in reply to donkiman

    That was an incredible read.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 5:13am) in reply to BMad524

    Fantastic read
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 5:19am) in reply to sandler1860

    Awesome read. Thx for posting.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 5:54am) in reply to BRm34eva

    ty for posting
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 6:05am) in reply to _advanced

    echo what everyone else said, thx
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 6:34am) in reply to truesyalose

    good stuff
     
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 7:08am) in reply to Esarbe

    Im just glad the CIA has gone from bush's cohorts back to an impartial source like they were when clinton was prez
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 9:39am) in reply to truesyalose

     
    Originally Posted by truesyalose View Post

    echo what everyone else said, thx


    this. good stuff
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 12:49pm) in reply to bluefront

    I hate to be that guy, but i want more evidence this actually happened. Ill believe it when I see it. This article reads like a shitty movie outline. Go USA type shit, show me the details unfiltered. sad the press doesnt push for more info. Im a big boy i can handle some head shot pics
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 1:58pm) in reply to norcaljeff

     
    Originally Posted by norcaljeff View Post

    Im just glad the CIA has gone from bush's cohorts back to an impartial source like they were when clinton was prez

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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 3:11pm) in reply to BigJohn804

    Interesting read TY OP
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 3:24pm) in reply to ucantbeatthemeat

     
    Originally Posted by ucantbeatthemeat View Post

    I hate to be that guy, but i want more evidence this actually happened. Ill believe it when I see it. This article reads like a shitty movie outline. Go USA type shit, show me the details unfiltered. sad the press doesnt push for more info. Im a big boy i can handle some head shot pics

    No one is ever going to get to see the kill shot pics. Thank Pakistani news for the pics of the blood streaks on the floor.. that is about as graphic as it is going to get.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 3:34pm) in reply to Esarbe

    That was pretty gripping even though I knew how it was going to end!
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:07pm) in reply to 2Slick4u

    next time u go to the bar, order a bin laden

    2 shots and a splash of water
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:38pm) in reply to smokerock247

     
    Originally Posted by smokerock247 View Post

    next time u go to the bar, order a bin laden

    2 shots and a splash of water

    Terrible joke two months ago and it didn't change
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:43pm) in reply to Popperhead

    wait, i thought obama was on one of the blackhawks?

    cool story tho, thx for posting.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 4:48pm) in reply to MUPokerPlayer

    conspiracy theorists, gonna conspiracy theory.. lol, no way did this not happen beatthemeet.. come on now bro, you are better than that
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 5:03pm) in reply to Lord Supremo

     
    Originally Posted by Lord Supremo View Post

    Def a great read, still very interesting despite how much has already been written.

    yeah i felt the same way. incredible he was able to keep it intriguing despite the weeks of coverage we all saw immediately after.
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    Aug 2nd, 2011 (8/2/2011 6:01pm) in reply to Esarbe

    guess that's why he gets to write for the New Yorker lol
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    Aug 3rd, 2011 (8/3/2011 12:13am) in reply to Lord Supremo

    On his radio, he reported, “For God and country—Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.” After a pause, he added, “Geronimo E.K.I.A.”—“enemy killed in action.”

    Hooya motherfuckers
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    Aug 3rd, 2011 (8/3/2011 12:46am) in reply to ihaterats

    If anyone interested in the Commander for the mission, here is a little background.


    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...B1F_story.html
     
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    Aug 3rd, 2011 (8/3/2011 3:19am) in reply to wantagolf

    Obama was the real difference, of coarse the SEALS are brave and the CIA is sneaky but he was the one that really made the operation plan workable. 4 more years!
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