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Hey man, I just mailed to osama_abbottamap@gmail.com. Mails are bouncing back. I think the news is real.
BREAKING NEWS Osama bin Laden killed in CIA operation
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Hey man, I just mailed to osama_abbottamap@gmail.com. Mails are bouncing back. I think the news is real.
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At least we got to see Veerapan's corpse.chiron said:
In this case they buried it at sea
seriously WTF !Bin Laden captured through detective work - Nytimes
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About the burial thing being so fast..
i understand no country would accept the body and they wdnt want to bury it someplace where people would turn it into a shrine.
but still very quick service this burial.
i understand no country would accept the body and they wdnt want to bury it someplace where people would turn it into a shrine.
but still very quick service this burial.
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Yeah, but the article says it was taken to Afghanistan and only AFTER disposed off. There is no question of public burial or marked grave, this body had to be disposed off as soon as possible.
On further thought i cannot believe nobody took any pics of it and maybe they might appear in the following days.
For now if Obama says it happened then thats good enough for me
There's a cpl of things here
- pakistan caught with pants down after denying his presence in the country
- does the fact they turned him in for a bigger prize negate the previous statement. Their relations between the US took a downturn recently. So OBL was always their 'get-out-of-jail' card.
OBL's supporters are going to be hopping mad at the Pakistani adminstration, expect there's going to be some retribution over this in that country.
On further thought i cannot believe nobody took any pics of it and maybe they might appear in the following days.
For now if Obama says it happened then thats good enough for me
There's a cpl of things here
- pakistan caught with pants down after denying his presence in the country
- does the fact they turned him in for a bigger prize negate the previous statement. Their relations between the US took a downturn recently. So OBL was always their 'get-out-of-jail' card.
OBL's supporters are going to be hopping mad at the Pakistani adminstration, expect there's going to be some retribution over this in that country.
How Osama Bin Laden Was Found
The trail that led the CIA to Osama bin Laden began with his most trusted courier. It had taken the CIA years to discover first his name and then the home where he was hiding the al-Qaida leader. But it took only 40 minutes on Sunday for US special forces to kill both the courier and Bin Laden.
Contrary to repeated speculation over the past decade that Bin Laden was living in one of the remote tribal areas of Pakistan or even across the border in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida leader was found in an affluent suburb of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
Senior US administration officials, briefing journalists in a late-night teleconference, said that after 9/11 the CIA chased various leads about Bin Laden's inner circle, in particular his couriers. One of these couriers came in for special attention, mentioned by detainees at Guantánamo Bay by his nom de guerre. He was said to be a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, and one of the few couriers Bin Laden trusted.
Officials said they were initially unable to identify him but finally did so four years ago. They did not disclose his name to reporters on Sunday.
Two years ago, the CIA found the rough location where the courier and his brother lived in Pakistan, and on August last year they narrowed it down to a compound in Abbottabad, an affluent area about 35 miles north of Islamabad that had been founded as a British garrison town in the 1840s and named after its first deputy commissioner, Major James Abbott.
They realised immediately this was no normal residence. The walls of the 3,000 sq ft compound were 12-18ft high, topped with barbed wire. There were two security gates, and access to the compound was severely restricted. The main part of the residence was three storeys high but had few windows, and a third-floor terrace was shielded by a privacy wall. Built around five years ago, it was valued at about $1m but had no phone or internet connection.
The two brothers had no known source of income, adding to CIA suspicions. The CIA learned too that there was a family living with them, and that the composition of this family matched Bin Laden's.
Local suspicions were understood to have been aroused by the fact that the residents of the compound burned their rubbish rather than putting it out for collection. Salman Riaz, a film actor, said that five months ago he and a crew tried to do some filming next to the house, but were told to stop by two men who came out. "They told me that this is haram (forbidden) in Islam," he said. He did not know that he had stumbled across a bespoke terrorist hideaway "custom-built to hide someone of significance", according to a US official.
By September, the CIA had determined there was a "strong possibility" that the hideout was Bin Laden's, and by February, they were confident they had the right location. In March Barack Obama began chairing a series of five national security meetings. At the last of these, on Friday 29 April, while the world's attention was on the royal wedding taking place in London, he gave the order to mount an operation.
At that meeting, at 8.20am in the diplomatic room at the White House, Obama met his national security adviser Thomas Donilon, counter-terrorism adviser John O Brennan, and other senior national security aides to go through the detailed plan to attack the compound and sign the formal orders authorising it, the New York Times reported.
"We shared our intelligence on this compound with no other country, including Pakistan," a senior administration official told the paper. Only a tiny handful of people within the administration were aware of the operation.
Osama bin Laden: it took years to find him but just minutes to kill him | World news | guardian.co.uk
The trail that led the CIA to Osama bin Laden began with his most trusted courier. It had taken the CIA years to discover first his name and then the home where he was hiding the al-Qaida leader. But it took only 40 minutes on Sunday for US special forces to kill both the courier and Bin Laden.
Contrary to repeated speculation over the past decade that Bin Laden was living in one of the remote tribal areas of Pakistan or even across the border in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida leader was found in an affluent suburb of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
Senior US administration officials, briefing journalists in a late-night teleconference, said that after 9/11 the CIA chased various leads about Bin Laden's inner circle, in particular his couriers. One of these couriers came in for special attention, mentioned by detainees at Guantánamo Bay by his nom de guerre. He was said to be a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, and one of the few couriers Bin Laden trusted.
Officials said they were initially unable to identify him but finally did so four years ago. They did not disclose his name to reporters on Sunday.
Two years ago, the CIA found the rough location where the courier and his brother lived in Pakistan, and on August last year they narrowed it down to a compound in Abbottabad, an affluent area about 35 miles north of Islamabad that had been founded as a British garrison town in the 1840s and named after its first deputy commissioner, Major James Abbott.
They realised immediately this was no normal residence. The walls of the 3,000 sq ft compound were 12-18ft high, topped with barbed wire. There were two security gates, and access to the compound was severely restricted. The main part of the residence was three storeys high but had few windows, and a third-floor terrace was shielded by a privacy wall. Built around five years ago, it was valued at about $1m but had no phone or internet connection.
The two brothers had no known source of income, adding to CIA suspicions. The CIA learned too that there was a family living with them, and that the composition of this family matched Bin Laden's.
Local suspicions were understood to have been aroused by the fact that the residents of the compound burned their rubbish rather than putting it out for collection. Salman Riaz, a film actor, said that five months ago he and a crew tried to do some filming next to the house, but were told to stop by two men who came out. "They told me that this is haram (forbidden) in Islam," he said. He did not know that he had stumbled across a bespoke terrorist hideaway "custom-built to hide someone of significance", according to a US official.
By September, the CIA had determined there was a "strong possibility" that the hideout was Bin Laden's, and by February, they were confident they had the right location. In March Barack Obama began chairing a series of five national security meetings. At the last of these, on Friday 29 April, while the world's attention was on the royal wedding taking place in London, he gave the order to mount an operation.
At that meeting, at 8.20am in the diplomatic room at the White House, Obama met his national security adviser Thomas Donilon, counter-terrorism adviser John O Brennan, and other senior national security aides to go through the detailed plan to attack the compound and sign the formal orders authorising it, the New York Times reported.
"We shared our intelligence on this compound with no other country, including Pakistan," a senior administration official told the paper. Only a tiny handful of people within the administration were aware of the operation.
Osama bin Laden: it took years to find him but just minutes to kill him | World news | guardian.co.uk
Ok! The Immediate disposal of Osama's Body is a little suspicious.
When Saddam Hussein was captured, He was taken into custody, He was sent for confirming that he actually was the original Saddam Hussein I am wondering why that didn't happen with Osama, as he is know to have many duplicates.
What i think is that, Either He was dead Long before, When American's didn't find anything & Pakistan was the last place they looked & still didn't find anything so they may have assumed that he was actually dead & Hence Just Claimed Victory for the Millions of Dollar that was on Osama's Head.
Or, Osama Himself surrendered to American's with the vast amount of information he has on All the countries which would be of alot of help for the Super Power American, that they staged his death.
What do you guys think?
When Saddam Hussein was captured, He was taken into custody, He was sent for confirming that he actually was the original Saddam Hussein I am wondering why that didn't happen with Osama, as he is know to have many duplicates.
What i think is that, Either He was dead Long before, When American's didn't find anything & Pakistan was the last place they looked & still didn't find anything so they may have assumed that he was actually dead & Hence Just Claimed Victory for the Millions of Dollar that was on Osama's Head.
Or, Osama Himself surrendered to American's with the vast amount of information he has on All the countries which would be of alot of help for the Super Power American, that they staged his death.
What do you guys think?
ABC News obtained footage inside of Osama bin laden's Abbottabad compound.
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Inside the Pakistan Kill Site Video - ABC News
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Inside the Pakistan Kill Site Video - ABC News
Local man apparently live-tweeted Osama mansion raid
This fellow, a consultant in Abbottabad, appears to have reported events from the attack on Osama bin Laden's compound on Twitter, without being aware of their significance: "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it."
This fellow, a consultant in Abbottabad, appears to have reported events from the attack on Osama bin Laden's compound on Twitter, without being aware of their significance: "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it."
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