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Subject: Bin Laden killed in raid by Navy SEALS
esmoore5    5/2/2011 4:33:02 AM
Elite Navy SEALs conducted bin Laden mission: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/01/elite-navy-seals-conducted-bin-laden-mission/
 
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esmoore5       5/11/2011 2:32:15 PM
 
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esmoore5       5/12/2011 12:24:37 PM
Bin Laden journal reveals attack strategy, sources say: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42992612/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/ Osama Drew The Line at Building a Ford F-150 of Death: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/osama-drew-the-line-at-building-a-ford-f-150-of-death/ Accounts piece together bin Laden's fugitive trail: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_as/as_bin_laden_s_steps US to pay Pakistan $300 million for fighting militants: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43001186/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ Pakistan Won't Share Raid Wreckage With China: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6485869&c=ASI&s=AIR Bin Laden case puts Pakistan's 'Military Inc' under scrutiny: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42996834/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
 
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esmoore5       5/13/2011 1:49:46 PM
 
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esmoore5       5/14/2011 8:06:09 PM
 
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gf0012-aust       5/14/2011 9:15:40 PM
some of these links are just rubbish news.

helmet cams have been in use on SF missions for over 15 years. All modern SF where the civilian authority "manages" the military have them.

 
 
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esmoore5       5/15/2011 6:36:32 PM
 
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esmoore5    More "rubbish" links. :)   5/16/2011 12:49:25 PM
US general: Too early to gauge bin Laden killing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110516/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan A Black Hawk View on bin Laden: http://the-diplomat.com/2011/05/13/a-black-hawk-view-on-bin-laden/ U.S., Pakistan to cooperate in fight vs. 'high-value targets': http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/topstory/7566693.html
 
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esmoore5    More "rubbish" links. :)   5/17/2011 2:02:13 PM
 
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gf0012-aust       5/17/2011 5:25:47 PM

Sources: Raiders knew mission a one-shot deal

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/05/ap-raiders-knew-mission-a-one-shot-deal-051711/" />

WASHINGTON — Those who planned the secret mission to get Osama bin Laden in Pakistan knew it was a one-shot deal, and it nearly went terribly wrong.

The U.S. deliberately hid the operation from Pakistan, and predicted that national outrage over the breach of Pakistani sovereignty would make it impossible to try again if the raid on bin Laden?s suspected redoubt came up dry.

Once the raiders reached their target, things started to go awry almost immediately, officials briefed on the operation said.

Adding exclusive new details to the account of the assault on bin Laden?s hideout, officials described just how the SEAL raiders loudly ditched a foundering helicopter right outside bin Laden?s door, ruining the plan for a surprise assault. That forced them to abandon plans to run a squeeze play on bin Laden — simultaneously entering the house stealthily from the roof and the ground floor.

Instead, they busted into the ground floor and began a floor-by-floor storming of the house, working up to the top level where they had assumed bin Laden — if he was in the house — would be.

They were right.

The raiders came face-to-face with bin Laden in a hallway outside his bedroom, and three of the Americans stormed in after him, U.S. officials briefed on the operation told The Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a classified operation.

U.S. officials believe Pakistani intelligence continues to support militants who attack U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and actively undermine U.S. intelligence operations to go after al-Qaida inside Pakistan. The level of distrust is such that keeping Pakistan in the dark was a major factor in planning the raid, and led to using the high-tech but sometimes unpredictable helicopter technology that nearly unhinged the mission.

Pakistan?s government has since condemned the action, and threatened to open fire if U.S. forces enter again.

On Monday, the two partners attempted to patch up relations, agreeing to pursue high-value targets jointly.

The decision to launch on that particular moonless night in May came largely because too many American officials had been briefed on the plan. U.S. officials feared if it leaked to the press, bin Laden would disappear for another decade.

U.S. special operations forces have made approximately four forays into Pakistani territory since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, though this one, some 90 miles inside Pakistan, was unlike any other, the officials say.

The job was given to a SEAL Team 6 unit, just back from Afghanistan, one official said. This elite branch of SEALs had been hunting bin Laden in eastern Afghanistan since 2001.

Five aircraft flew from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with three school-bus-size Chinook helicopters landing in a deserted area roughly two-thirds of the way to bin Laden?s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, two of the officials explained.

Aboard two Black Hawk helicopters were 23 SEALs, an interpreter and a tracking dog named Cairo. Nineteen SEALs would enter the compound, and three of them would find bin Laden, one official said, providing the exact numbers for the first time.

Aboard the Chinooks were two dozen more SEALs, as backup.

The Black Hawks were specially engineered to muffle the tail rotor and engine sound, two officials said. The added weight of the stealth technology meant cargo was calculated to the ounce, with weather factored in. The night of the mission, it was hotter than expected.

The Black Hawks were to drop the SEALs and depart in less than two minutes, in hopes locals would assume they were Pakistani aircraft visiting the nearby military academy.

One Black Hawk was to hover above the compound, with SEALs sliding down ropes into the open courtyard.

The second was to hover above the roof to drop SEALs there, then land more SEALs outside — plus an interpreter and the dog, who would track anyone who tried to escape and to alert SEALs to any approaching Pakistani security forces.

If troops appeared, the plan was to hunker down in the compound, avoiding armed confrontation with the Pakistanis while officials in Washington negotiated their passage out.

The two SEAL teams inside would work toward each other, in a simultaneous attack from above and below, their weapons silenced, guaranteeing surprise, one of the officials said. They would have

 
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esmoore5    More "rubbish" links. :)   5/18/2011 12:28:14 PM
The bulletproof dog that stormed bin Laden's lair: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43068421?GT1=43001 RQ-170 Stealth Drone Used in Bin Laden Raid: http://defensetech.org/2011/05/18/rq-170-sentinel-stealth-drone-used-in-bin-laden-raid/ Al Qaeda operative arrested in Karachi was 'courier' between between bin Laden, Zawahiri: Pakistani officials: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/05/al_qaeda_operative_a.php Reports: Caretaker leader takes over al-Qaida: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43069302/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/t/expert-caretaker-leader-takes-over-al-qaida/?GT1=43001
 
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