Bin Laden is DEAD, thread from Hell

What do you think about the government's released information?

  • I believe all of it, of course some stuff is withheld for security's sake

    Votes: 39 39.4%

  • I believe none of it, seems like b-s to me

    Votes: 13 13.1%

  • I'm not sure yet

    Votes: 17 17.2%

  • I believe most of it, some stuff fabricated for political reasons

    Votes: 30 30.3%
  • Total voters
    99
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Cheering crowds outside the White House...

Praise Jesus.
 
Grace said:
It was a good speech. And I'm glad he mentioned that Pakistan did assist and was part of the mission.

But now a really sharp eye needs to be kept...for Pakistani's as well as us and our allies.
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Hi girl, I don't trust them a bit. But the new "Bin Laden" has replaced him and it will be work as usual for them....with a bit of revenge.....
 
Damn, people. Why are you fighting amongst yourselves when this is supposed to be something we are united about????
 
I was reminded of something I read in "Bush at War" by Bob Woodward...

Gary, an undercover CIA officer whose last name is not being used, was leading the first critical wave of President Bush's war against terrorism. With him was a team of CIA covert paramilitary officers with communications gear that would allow them to set up direct, classified links with headquarters in Langley, Va. Between his legs was a large strapped metal suitcase that contained $3 million in U.S. currency, non-sequential $100 bills. He always laughed when he saw a television show or movie in which someone passed $1 million in a small attaché case. It just wouldn't fit.

Several times in his career, Gary had stuffed $1 million into his backpack so he could move around and pass it to people on other operations. He had signed for the $3 million as usual. What was different this time was that he could dole it out pretty much at his discretion.

Gary had been an officer in the Directorate of Operations of the CIA for 32 years, the type of CIA clandestine operative who many thought no longer existed. In the 1970s, he had been an undercover case officer in Tehran and then Islamabad. He had recruited, developed, paid and run agents who reported from within the host governments. In the 1980s, he served as chief of the CIA base in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and later as chief of station for Kabul. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was closed due to the Soviet invasion, so he operated out of Islamabad.

In the 1990s, he served as deputy chief of station in Saudi Arabia, then chief of a secret overseas station that operated against Iran. From 1996 to 1999, he had been chief of station in Islamabad, and then deputy chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asian operations division at Langley.

On Sept. 11, Gary had been almost out the door, weeks from retirement. Four days later, he received a call from Cofer Black, the head of the agency's counterterrorism center, asking him to come to headquarters. "I know you're ready to retire," Black told him. "But we want to send a team in right away. You're the logical person to go in." Not only did Gary have the experience, but he spoke Pashto and Dari, Afghanistan's two main languages.

A team would be a small group of CIA operatives and paramilitary officers working out of the super-secret Special Activities Division of the Directorate of Operations.

"Yeah, I'll go," Gary said. When he was Islamabad station chief, he had made several covert trips into Afghanistan, meeting with leaders of the Northern Alliance, the loose confederation of warlords and tribes that opposed the Taliban, and bringing in cash, normally $200,000 -- a bag of money on the table.


Jawbreaker had another assignment. The president had signed a new intelligence order; the gloves were off. "You have one mission," Black instructed. "Go find the al Qaeda and kill them. We're going to eliminate them. Get bin Laden, find him. I want his head in a box. . . . I want to take it down and show the president."

"Well, that couldn't be any clearer," Gary replied.

Gary left Washington the next day, and the team hooked up in Asia. There was a maddening wait for visas and clearances to get into Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Now in the helicopter, he had to worry through the 2 1/2-hour overflight into Afghanistan. A CIA man in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was in regular radio contact with the Northern Alliance and had radioed that the team was heading in. But the radio link was not secure, and though the territory they were flying over was supposed to be controlled by the Northern Alliance, any Taliban or al Qaeda soldier with a Stinger missile or a Z-23 antiaircraft gun on a hilltop could have shot the Mi-17 out of the air.

Jawbreaker touched down in a landing field about 70 miles north of Kabul, in the heart of Northern Alliance territory, at about 3 p.m. local time. The team comprised 10 men -- Gary, a senior deputy, a young Directorate of Operations case officer who had four years in Pakistan and spoke excellent Farsi and Dari, an experienced field communications officer who had worked in tough places, a former Navy SEAL, another paramilitary operative, a longtime agency medic, two pilots and a helicopter mechanic. The men spanned nearly 30 years in age and were of different shapes and sizes. They wore camping clothes and baseball caps.

Two Northern Alliance officers and about 10 others greeted them. They loaded the gear on a big truck and drove about a mile to a guesthouse in a tiny village. The village had been cordoned off with a checkpoint at each end. The Alliance officers were nervous and wanted the team out of sight.

By about 6 p.m., they had their secure communications up. Gary sent a classified cable asking for some additional supplies. In the exuberance of the safe arrival and mindful of Black's request for bin Laden's head, he added a line to the cable requesting some heavy-duty cardboard boxes, dry ice and, if possible, some pikes.
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I would just love it if Obama would have the A-Team at the White House for some cold ones then

I would just love it if Bush would have whatever A-Team did this over to his ranch for some BBQ
 
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CRStar said:
Grace said:
It was a good speech. And I'm glad he mentioned that Pakistan did assist and was part of the mission.

But now a really sharp eye needs to be kept...for Pakistani's as well as us and our allies.
Click to expand...

Hi girl, I don't trust them a bit. But the new "Bin Laden" has replaced him and it will be work as usual for them....with a bit of revenge.....
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Oh, most assuredly. Quite a few Bin Ladins, I'm sure.
 
You poor, easily misled, brainwashed stupid sheople. You're like the cattle snacking on tiny bits of grass while corralled up on their way to the slaughter house. What a shame what we have become. ~BH
 
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You are the ones that brought this about. You are the ones that sweat, bled, cried, died to make one guy go down.

No politics. No standing or ex presidents. Just to the military. Thank you.
 
Yea the Brass Balls on those Soldiers huh? Wow. Brave Heroes to be remembered forever. God Bless em.
 
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