Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Details Emerge On The Mission To Kill Osama Bin Laden



'For God And Country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo': The Words The SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Radioed Home - And Why No-One Will Ever Know His Identity -- Daily Mail

* SEALs always intended to shoot Bin Laden
* Advisers including Robert Gates were against the plan
* Mission almost failed in the first minute when helicopter went down
* President Obama has never asked who pulled the trigger
* Medics took bone marrow samples from Bin Laden's body
* SEALs were NOT wearing helmet cameras
* Bin Laden's body was offered to Saudis for burial - they said no

When he pulled the trigger on his silenced rifle in a darkened bedroom in Pakistan and shot a tall, unarmed man with a straggly beard in a prayer cap and shalwar kameez, he ended a nine-year manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, the man who claimed 2,973 lives on September 11, 2001.

But no-one - not even President Barack Obama - will ever know the name of that SEAL, nor of the comrade who wrapped Bin Laden's wives in a huge bear hug and dragged them aside in case they were wearing suicide bomb vests, knowing he would absorb most of the blast and save the men behind him.

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More News On The Mission To Kill Osama Bin Laden

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad. -- New Yorker

Osama Bin Laden: Mission Was To Shoot To Kill From The Start -- The Telegraph
A cinematic retelling of bin Laden raid from the New Yorker, with new details -- Washington Post
New Account of the Night Bin Laden Was Killed -- Atlantic Wire
Details Of The Bin Laden Raid, Recounted By The SEALs -- NPR (Audio)
Inside the bin Laden raid: Navy SEALs 'never' intended on capturing terror leader -- New York Post
Officer: Raid Was Always to Kill Bin Laden -- Military.com
Inside the raid that killed Osama bin Laden: “Crankshaft,” DEVGRU and a dog named Cairo -- Yahoo News/The Envoy
Bin Laden's killers 'not instructed to capture' -- The Independent
Wanted: dead - not alive! -- New York Post
US SEALs had no intention of 'capturing or detaining' Osama during Abbottabad raid -- Economic Times
US Navy SEALs practised with Osama house replica for May raid -- Indian Express
US considered tunneling to bin Laden: report -- AFP
Killing Bin Laden 'Like Mowing The Lawn,' Defense Official Tells Journalist -- NPR
Navy SEALs had "kill" order on Osama bin Laden, report claims -- Global Post
First on chest, second on head, that's how Osama bin Laden was killed -- Economic Times
Osama bin Laden was killed with a shot to the chest, then to the head -- Metro
Advanced Technology, Old-Fashioned Tactics Helped Make Bin Laden Raid a Success -- PBS Newshour
The True Story Of What Happened In Operation Kill Bin Laden -- Gizmodo

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