Bin Ladin dead!

[mondeo]

Interesting coincidence...

Technically, Bin Laden is May 2nd. It was around 1AM in Pakistan.

 

[dmc]

Technically, Bin Laden is May 2nd. It was around 1AM in Pakistan.

Good catch...

 

[ctenidae]

Good catch...

Yeah, but it was on the front page of Stars and Stripes on May 2...

 

[gmcunni]

i don't know, seems too convenient that he was killed in a firefight and dropped off a boat before anyone knew what had happened.

you'd think they'd have tried very hard to take him alive to obtain intel from him. i won't be surprised in 25 years to learn he was stashed away somewhere for years while they "extracted" info from him.

 

[SkiDork]

you'd think they'd have tried very hard to take him alive to obtain intel from him.

He had made it know he would not be taken alive. I imagine he made it impossible for the Seals to do that

 

[Dr Skimeister]

"And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand." -George Bernard Shaw

 

[legalskier]

The United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), commonly known as DEVGRU and informally by its former name SEAL Team Six (ST6) is one of the United States' two secretive Tier One counter-terrorism and Special Mission Units (SMUs); the other such group is 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force).... The origins of ST6 can be traced to the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, the failed 1980 attempt to rescue American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. During the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, Richard Marcinko was one of two Navy representatives for a Joint Chiefs of Staff task force known as the TAT (Terrorist Action Team). The purpose of the TAT was to develop a plan to free the American hostages held in Iran, which culminated in Operation Eagle Claw. In the wake of the operation's disaster at Desert One, the U.S. Navy saw the need for a full-time dedicated Counter-Terrorist Team and tasked Marcinko with its design and development. ***
Full article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group

 

[legalskier]

"And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand." -George Bernard Shaw

As long as al Qaeda intends to kill Americans, we can exercise our right of self-defense.

 

[Puck it]

 

[ctenidae]

As long as al Qaeda intends to kill Americans, we can exercise our right of self-defense.

Doesn't mean Shaw's not right.

 

[ed-drum]

Gee, nobody ever shook my hand for the horrors that I witnessed while serving my country. How does a Army Recruiter REMF fit in to all of this? "All great truths start out as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

 

[jack97]

Gusty call by the prez..... wasn't a given Bin Ladin was in the mansion and whether sailors in the SEAL team would come through unharm. Imagine what would have happen if either of those two came to be?

Got to give props to Obama for making the call on the Somalia pirates and then this. k, this just became poltical :?

 

[ed-drum]

The Stars and Stripes European edition has the story Gaddhafi's son killed in air strikes, NOT OBL killed. The Stars and Stripes LIED as to what happened when I was there. Most of us went to schools that taught us that Henry Ford invented the automobile. He didn't.

 

[dmc]

Gusty call by the prez..... wasn't a given Bin Ladin was in the mansion and whether sailors in the SEAL team would come through unharm. Imagine what would have happen if either of those two came to be?

It sounds like this was a very well planned incursion..

 

[campgottagopee]

Gee, nobody ever shook my hand for the horrors that I witnessed while serving my country. How does a Army Recruiter REMF fit in to all of this? "All great truths start out as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

That's a shame.

I'd say ANYONE in any branch of the military had alot to do with it.

 

[wa-loaf]

They got some video ...


:beer:

 

[wa-loaf]

Hitler declared dead, May 1, 1945. May 1 2011, Osama Bin Laden declared dead.

Interesting coincidence...

It was also my Birthday so I take responsibility. :dunce:

 

[ed-drum]

GREAT video! I don't understand if Camps' comment was sardonic or what. They warned us in training that we might not come home alive. I was assigned to a field hospital. Anyone who thinks that someone assigned to a 2nd or 3rd echelon unit is safe is very naive. They dropped rockets on people I know who were in the Air Transportable hospital. (ATH)

 

[drjeff]

Thank god that Guantanamo has remained open and that a select few of our servicemen/under cover CIA operatives have been able to use advanced interogation techniques to help acquire the information that allowed the operation to be a success to get Bin Laden!

 

[roark]

‎"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that" -- Martin Luther King, Jr