ABC reporting the mansion that held Bin Laden now on fire**
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They didn't leave that compound without all the intel that was possible being gathered. Look for some more random drone strikes and some more random pakastani assistance helping kill or capture more of those scum in the coming days and months.
This compound was 100 yards from a Pakistani military unit. The fire that everyone saw was actually a blackhawk that we blew up ourselves because it was having engine problems.
They were met with resistance outside the mansion, Osama and 3-4 other automatic weapons toting cowards. As the seals engaged in a volley of heavy automatic weapons fire, Osama and the other cowards tried to use the woman as a human shield, hiding behind her. All were killed in the fire fight and Osama's body was dragged back to the one working chopper and flown away.
The seals supposedly never went inside the mansion to collect intel, they had accomplished what they came for and were back on the chopper in very short order.
The seals supposedly never went inside the mansion to collect intel, they had accomplished what they came for and were back on the chopper in very short order.
...and I heard one report say that the firefight probably lasted 10 minutes and the rest of the time was spent gathering intel. Who knows?
DowntownDawg said:
I heard this report from several different sources: that the fire fight was swift and over almost immediately (don't mess with USN Seals) with the remaining 35 minutes used to gather intel.
This whole thing took huge nads: an unannounced mission into what was basically the back yard of Paki's West Point Academy. Obama was not kidding when he said back in 2007 that he would go into Paki to get the guy.
It's more than 100 yards, actually it's a little over 1100 yards, but yea, there's little doubt that they knew he was there in my mind.<div>therightway said:
</div><div>Bin Laden Compound:</div><div>http://maps.google.com/ma...007332,0.016512&z=17</div><div>
</div><div>Military Training Academy:</div><div>http://maps.google.com/ma...007331,0.016512&z=17</div>
both sides against the middle. They cooperate with us just enoughtto keep our money flowing in and they obviously do the same with the terroist groups. I don't think there is any doubt that someone was receiving quite a bit of payola from Bin Laden within the military or the Pak govt or both to keep his sorry *** alive. Obviously there aren't alot of better choices for us right now but it is amazing we were able to pull this off under this situation. A damn good day indeed, Osama's check must have bounced.