bin Laden is dead!!!!!
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Maaaaan its getting a lil fishy ain't it? Less than 24 hes later hes dumped in the river,my bad the ocean??? I want to think it happened but I need proof. We need some frogmen out there combing the seas til they find that body. Drag it around the streets of d.c. like them derka derkas do our troops. Have obama drive an 86 chevy caprice on 26s dragging his ass behind it. "YES WE CAN"
http://www.news.com.au/
HELICOPTERS descended out of darkness on the most important counter-terrorism mission in US history. It was an operation so secret that only a select few US officials knew what was about to happen.
The location was a fortified compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad. The target was Osama bin Laden.
Intelligence officials discovered the compound in August while monitoring an al-Qaeda courier. The CIA had been hunting that courier for years, ever since detainees told interrogators that the courier was so trusted by bin Laden that he might very well be living with the al-Qaeda leader.
Nestled in an affluent neighbourhood, the compound was surrounded by walls as high as 5.5m, topped with barbed wire. Two security gates guarded the only way in. A third-floor terrace was shielded by a seven-foot privacy wall. No phone lines or internet cables ran to the property. The residents burned their garbage rather than put it out for collection. Intelligence officials believed the million-dollar compound had been built five years ago to protect a major terrorist figure. The question was, who?
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The CIA asked itself again and again who might be living behind those walls. Each time, they concluded it was almost certainly bin Laden.
US President Barack Obama described the operation in broad strokes on Sunday night. Details were provided in interviews with counter-terrorism and intelligence authorities, senior administration officials and other US officials. All spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation.
By mid-February, intelligence from multiple sources was clear enough that Obama wanted to "pursue an aggressive course of action", a senior administration official said. Over the next two-and-a-half months, Obama led five meetings of the National Security Council focused solely on whether bin Laden was in that compound and, if so, how to get him, the official said.
Normally, the US shares its counterterrorism intelligence widely with trusted allies in Britain, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. And the US normally does not carry out ground operations inside Pakistan without collaboration with Pakistani intelligence. But this mission was too important and too secretive.
On April 29, Obama approved an operation to kill bin Laden. It was a mission that required surgical accuracy, even more precision than could be delivered by the government's sophisticated Predator drones. To execute it, Obama tapped a small contingent of the US navy's elite SEAL Team Six and put them under the command of CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose analysts monitored the compound from afar.
Panetta was directly in charge of the team, a US official said, and his conference room was transformed into a command centre.
Details of exactly how the raid unfolded remain murky, but the al-Qaeda courier, his brother and one of bin Laden's sons were killed. No Americans were injured. Senior administration officials will only say that bin Laden "resisted". And then the man behind the worst terrorist attack on US soil died from an American bullet to his head.
It was mid-afternoon in Virginia when Panetta and his team received word that bin Laden was dead. Cheers and applause broke out across the conference room.
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ha! I knew it. They went in without pakidans knowing cause they would of fucked it up and leaked it
American Navy SEALS = fucking awseome
HELICOPTERS descended out of darkness on the most important counter-terrorism mission in US history. It was an operation so secret that only a select few US officials knew what was about to happen.
The location was a fortified compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad. The target was Osama bin Laden.
Intelligence officials discovered the compound in August while monitoring an al-Qaeda courier. The CIA had been hunting that courier for years, ever since detainees told interrogators that the courier was so trusted by bin Laden that he might very well be living with the al-Qaeda leader.
Nestled in an affluent neighbourhood, the compound was surrounded by walls as high as 5.5m, topped with barbed wire. Two security gates guarded the only way in. A third-floor terrace was shielded by a seven-foot privacy wall. No phone lines or internet cables ran to the property. The residents burned their garbage rather than put it out for collection. Intelligence officials believed the million-dollar compound had been built five years ago to protect a major terrorist figure. The question was, who?
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.
End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.
The CIA asked itself again and again who might be living behind those walls. Each time, they concluded it was almost certainly bin Laden.
US President Barack Obama described the operation in broad strokes on Sunday night. Details were provided in interviews with counter-terrorism and intelligence authorities, senior administration officials and other US officials. All spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation.
By mid-February, intelligence from multiple sources was clear enough that Obama wanted to "pursue an aggressive course of action", a senior administration official said. Over the next two-and-a-half months, Obama led five meetings of the National Security Council focused solely on whether bin Laden was in that compound and, if so, how to get him, the official said.
Normally, the US shares its counterterrorism intelligence widely with trusted allies in Britain, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. And the US normally does not carry out ground operations inside Pakistan without collaboration with Pakistani intelligence. But this mission was too important and too secretive.
On April 29, Obama approved an operation to kill bin Laden. It was a mission that required surgical accuracy, even more precision than could be delivered by the government's sophisticated Predator drones. To execute it, Obama tapped a small contingent of the US navy's elite SEAL Team Six and put them under the command of CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose analysts monitored the compound from afar.
Panetta was directly in charge of the team, a US official said, and his conference room was transformed into a command centre.
Details of exactly how the raid unfolded remain murky, but the al-Qaeda courier, his brother and one of bin Laden's sons were killed. No Americans were injured. Senior administration officials will only say that bin Laden "resisted". And then the man behind the worst terrorist attack on US soil died from an American bullet to his head.
It was mid-afternoon in Virginia when Panetta and his team received word that bin Laden was dead. Cheers and applause broke out across the conference room.
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ha! I knew it. They went in without pakidans knowing cause they would of fucked it up and leaked it
American Navy SEALS = fucking awseome
Islamic Scholars Split Over Sea Burial for Bin Laden
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN LELAND
Published: May 2, 2011
Islamic scholars and clerics were divided Monday over whether it was appropriate for American forces to bury Osama bin Laden at sea, a decision that added an ambiguous coda to a life that had been clouded in ambiguity and secrecy over the past decade.
Bin Laden, who left a legacy of death and destruction upon sites around the world, has no final burial place.
American officials on Monday stressed that the sea burial was arranged according to Islamic custom, but some clerics objected that Bin Laden should have been buried on land in a simple grave.
The sea burial prevents Bin Laden’s followers from turning his grave site into a shrine, said Akbar Ahmed, the chairman of the Islamic studies department at American University.
According to a senior American intelligence official, after Navy Seals killed the man they believed to be Bin Laden in a compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday, C.I.A. agents compared DNA samples with the profiles of several family members to confirm his identity, finding a “virtually 100 percent” match. One of Bin Laden’s wives who was living in the compound also identified the body, the official added.
American defense officials said they found no country willing o take the body for land burial in time to satisfy Islamic custom, which requires burial within 24 hours of death.
Military forces transferred the body to the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, in the North Arabian Sea, a senior defense official said. Shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern daylight time, the body was washed in accordance with Islamic custom, placed in a white sheet, then put inside a weighted bag.
A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a “native speaker,” the official said. The body was placed on a board, tipped up and then “eased into the sea,” the official said.
The official did not name the native speaker or say whether he was a Muslim cleric.
The sea burial also prevents Bin Laden’s resting place from becoming a focus for discontent, said Professor Ahmed of American University, who added that visitors to such a shrine would attribute healing powers to the site. But the secretive burial at sea may also give rise to anger and speculation about whether Bin Laden is really dead, he said.
In the Iraqi city of Najaf, home to one of Islam’s holiest shrines, Sheikh Mohammed Ali said the sea burial was contrary to Muslim “respect and honor for the dead.”
Elisabeth Bumiller reported from Washington, and John Leland from New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03burial.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN LELAND
Published: May 2, 2011
Islamic scholars and clerics were divided Monday over whether it was appropriate for American forces to bury Osama bin Laden at sea, a decision that added an ambiguous coda to a life that had been clouded in ambiguity and secrecy over the past decade.
Bin Laden, who left a legacy of death and destruction upon sites around the world, has no final burial place.
American officials on Monday stressed that the sea burial was arranged according to Islamic custom, but some clerics objected that Bin Laden should have been buried on land in a simple grave.
The sea burial prevents Bin Laden’s followers from turning his grave site into a shrine, said Akbar Ahmed, the chairman of the Islamic studies department at American University.
According to a senior American intelligence official, after Navy Seals killed the man they believed to be Bin Laden in a compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday, C.I.A. agents compared DNA samples with the profiles of several family members to confirm his identity, finding a “virtually 100 percent” match. One of Bin Laden’s wives who was living in the compound also identified the body, the official added.
American defense officials said they found no country willing o take the body for land burial in time to satisfy Islamic custom, which requires burial within 24 hours of death.
Military forces transferred the body to the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, in the North Arabian Sea, a senior defense official said. Shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern daylight time, the body was washed in accordance with Islamic custom, placed in a white sheet, then put inside a weighted bag.
A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a “native speaker,” the official said. The body was placed on a board, tipped up and then “eased into the sea,” the official said.
The official did not name the native speaker or say whether he was a Muslim cleric.
The sea burial also prevents Bin Laden’s resting place from becoming a focus for discontent, said Professor Ahmed of American University, who added that visitors to such a shrine would attribute healing powers to the site. But the secretive burial at sea may also give rise to anger and speculation about whether Bin Laden is really dead, he said.
In the Iraqi city of Najaf, home to one of Islam’s holiest shrines, Sheikh Mohammed Ali said the sea burial was contrary to Muslim “respect and honor for the dead.”
Elisabeth Bumiller reported from Washington, and John Leland from New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03burial.html
Islamic Scholars Split Over Sea Burial for Bin Laden
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN LELAND
Published: May 2, 2011
Islamic scholars and clerics were divided Monday over whether it was appropriate for American forces to bury Osama bin Laden at sea, a decision that added an ambiguous coda to a life that had been clouded in ambiguity and secrecy over the past decade.
Bin Laden, who left a legacy of death and destruction upon sites around the world, has no final burial place.
American officials on Monday stressed that the sea burial was arranged according to Islamic custom, but some clerics objected that Bin Laden should have been buried on land in a simple grave.
The sea burial prevents Bin Laden’s followers from turning his grave site into a shrine, said Akbar Ahmed, the chairman of the Islamic studies department at American University.
According to a senior American intelligence official, after Navy Seals killed the man they believed to be Bin Laden in a compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday, C.I.A. agents compared DNA samples with the profiles of several family members to confirm his identity, finding a “virtually 100 percent” match. One of Bin Laden’s wives who was living in the compound also identified the body, the official added.
American defense officials said they found no country willing o take the body for land burial in time to satisfy Islamic custom, which requires burial within 24 hours of death.
Military forces transferred the body to the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, in the North Arabian Sea, a senior defense official said. Shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern daylight time, the body was washed in accordance with Islamic custom, placed in a white sheet, then put inside a weighted bag.
A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a “native speaker,” the official said. The body was placed on a board, tipped up and then “eased into the sea,” the official said.
The official did not name the native speaker or say whether he was a Muslim cleric.
The sea burial also prevents Bin Laden’s resting place from becoming a focus for discontent, said Professor Ahmed of American University, who added that visitors to such a shrine would attribute healing powers to the site. But the secretive burial at sea may also give rise to anger and speculation about whether Bin Laden is really dead, he said.
In the Iraqi city of Najaf, home to one of Islam’s holiest shrines, Sheikh Mohammed Ali said the sea burial was contrary to Muslim “respect and honor for the dead.”
Elisabeth Bumiller reported from Washington, and John Leland from New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03burial.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN LELAND
Published: May 2, 2011
Islamic scholars and clerics were divided Monday over whether it was appropriate for American forces to bury Osama bin Laden at sea, a decision that added an ambiguous coda to a life that had been clouded in ambiguity and secrecy over the past decade.
Bin Laden, who left a legacy of death and destruction upon sites around the world, has no final burial place.
American officials on Monday stressed that the sea burial was arranged according to Islamic custom, but some clerics objected that Bin Laden should have been buried on land in a simple grave.
The sea burial prevents Bin Laden’s followers from turning his grave site into a shrine, said Akbar Ahmed, the chairman of the Islamic studies department at American University.
According to a senior American intelligence official, after Navy Seals killed the man they believed to be Bin Laden in a compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday, C.I.A. agents compared DNA samples with the profiles of several family members to confirm his identity, finding a “virtually 100 percent” match. One of Bin Laden’s wives who was living in the compound also identified the body, the official added.
American defense officials said they found no country willing o take the body for land burial in time to satisfy Islamic custom, which requires burial within 24 hours of death.
Military forces transferred the body to the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, in the North Arabian Sea, a senior defense official said. Shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern daylight time, the body was washed in accordance with Islamic custom, placed in a white sheet, then put inside a weighted bag.
A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a “native speaker,” the official said. The body was placed on a board, tipped up and then “eased into the sea,” the official said.
The official did not name the native speaker or say whether he was a Muslim cleric.
The sea burial also prevents Bin Laden’s resting place from becoming a focus for discontent, said Professor Ahmed of American University, who added that visitors to such a shrine would attribute healing powers to the site. But the secretive burial at sea may also give rise to anger and speculation about whether Bin Laden is really dead, he said.
In the Iraqi city of Najaf, home to one of Islam’s holiest shrines, Sheikh Mohammed Ali said the sea burial was contrary to Muslim “respect and honor for the dead.”
Elisabeth Bumiller reported from Washington, and John Leland from New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03burial.html
