Breaking news @ 11pm -Osama Bin Laden dead

[Duchess]

I don't respond well to men asking me for a picture.

Like the response would be any different if a chick asked. *smirk*

[IMaDick]

I don't respond well to men asking me for a picture.

Like the response would be any different if a chick asked. *smirk*

At least it wouldn't be creepy.

[Duchess]

Tonight on the Discovery channel.

Holed up in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Osama bin Laden nevertheless hatched a plan to trigger a "crisis" in the U.S. by assassinating President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus. Watch a preview of "Secrets of bin Laden's Lair," airing Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on the Discovery Channel

I hesitated in posting a link given the general atmosphere in here right now. *sigh*

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[JsMom]

Tonight on the Discovery channel.

Holed up in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Osama bin Laden nevertheless hatched a plan to trigger a "crisis" in the U.S. by assassinating President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus. Watch a preview of "Secrets of bin Laden's Lair," airing Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on the Discovery Channel

I hesitated in posting a link given the general atmosphere in here right now. *sigh*

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We know you can be trusted.

[Duchess]

Tonight at 8:00 on the National Geographic Channel

Set to air on the National Geographic Channel two days before the Presidential election, “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” is billed as the “real inside story behind the manhunt and raid that took down al-Qaeda’s notorious leader, told through the eyes of the military and intelligence teams involved.”

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[Duchess]

The Navy SEAL who claims he shot and killed Osama bin Laden in the famous raid which captured America's most wanted terrorist has spoken for the first time about the moment he shot the al Qaeda three times in the head and watched him take his last breath.

The Team Six member - who is referred to as 'The Shooter' for the safety of his family - described in unforgettable detail the days leading up to the kill, the moment he shot bin Laden three times and the fallout from the raid.

Once they were given their mission, the woman at the CIA - made famous by Jessica Chastain's portrayal in Zero Dark Thirty - told the team bin Laden was '100 per cent on the third floor' of his compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan.

'We got him,' she told us. 'This is him. This is my life's work. I'm positive.'

In an interview to appear in the March edition of Esquire magazine, The Shooter describes for the first time in unforgettable detail the tense and life-changing two minutes that changed the course of history.

Once he locked eyes on his target, he remembers being surprised at his appearance. Bin Laden was much taller than he expected him to be - taller than any of their guys, and skinny with a short beard and shaved head.

He was holding his wife Amal in front of him as a shield and though The Shooter could see exactly what was going on through night vision goggles, bin Laden was in total darkness and could hear but not see.

'And he's moving forward. I don't know if she's got a vest and she's being pushed to martyr them both,' he recalls. 'He's got a gun within reach. He's a threat. I need to get a head shot so he won't have a chance to clack himself off [blow himself up].

'In that second, I shot him, two times in the forehead. Bap! Bap! The second time as he's going down. He crumpled onto the floor in front of his bed and I hit him again, Bap! Same place.

'That time I used my EOTech red-dot holo sight. He was dead. Not moving. His tongue was out. I watched him take his last breaths, just a reflex breath.

'And I remember as I watched him breathe out the last part of air, I thought: Is this the best thing I've ever done, or the worst thing I've ever done? This is real and that's him. Holy shit.

'His forehead was gruesome. It was split open in the shape of a V. I could see his brains spilling out over his face. The American public doesn't want to know what that looks like.'

The Shooter, a father-of-two, then describes the moments after the shooting and how the al Qaeda leader's wife Amal launched herself at him screaming.

After zip tying her to the bed, he then realized bin Laden's youngest son, who was about two or three years old at the time, had also witnessed his father being shot.

'He was standing there on the other side of the bed. I didn't want to hurt him, because I'm not a savage. There was a lot of screaming, he was crying, just in shock.

'I didn't like that he was scared. I picked him up and put him next to his mother.'

He said the third-floor action lasted for about 15 seconds.

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There are 52 photos showing his death. They've been kept from public viewing on the grounds of national security in that they could incite violence. There is a chance a judge could overrule in the coming days/weeks and they will then be available to the general public.

[Sphincter Cop]

I hope the Judge releases the photos of him deceased. I am curious to see them.

[Duchess]

A journalist is saying that not one word of the account of the night Osama was killed is true. This isn't some hack reporter, this is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and he has stated the report of that night is all lies. This is a pretty serious claim.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh says that the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 is "one big lie" and that "not one word" of the Obama administration's narrative on what happened is true.

Hersh added that the Obama administration habitually lies but they continue to do so because the press allows them to get away with it.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

I have a bit of a hard time believing it is a complete lie, sanitized and exaggerated certainly, but there are plenty of people that do not like the big O enough that I would think they would have come out and called it out long ago.
Especially the seal team 6 guys that he ratted out.

[Duchess]

Yeah, I have a hard time believing it too & it's pretty sucky that this is coming from what I consider to be a legitimate journalist.

[HairOfTheDog]

Hard to believe it's been 5 years since Bin Laden was killed.

Tonight on CNN President Obama will discuss the raid during which Bin Landen was taken down and terrorism today.

[Duchess]

Hard to believe it's been 5 years since Bin Laden was killed.

Tonight on CNN President Obama will discuss the raid during which Bin Landen was taken down and terrorism today.

Ooooo that'll be interesting! I'm recalling the photograph taken that night at the White House with all the power grouped together in the room. They all looked so intense watching what was going down in real time.

[Donovan]

I still think there was a lot about that event we weren't told. Especially the part where they just decided to throw the body overboard without a single shred of verifiable evidence that he was killed in the manner that was put forth. I smelled fish then and I smell fish now.

[HairOfTheDog]

Do you think Hillary Clinton has lied to the public many times about the operation and watching the killing go down from the situation room, Donovan?

Personally, I don't doubt that Bin Laden was killed that day.

However, I wouldn't be terribly shocked if the photos haven't been released because his body had a hundred bullet holes in it, as some claim.

[Maggot]

Bonnie and Clyde and Dillinger got less respect. But this prick has more. Oh yeah...........it was a different time.

[HairOfTheDog]

Who gave Bin Laden respect?

The official word is that the photos haven't been released because they would incite violence, not outta respect for Bin Laden.

That may be fully or partially true. I just wouldn't be surprised if his body ended up with a lot more bullets in it before it was buried at sea.

[HairOfTheDog]

The CNN anniversary special was pretty interesting. There were interviews with Obama, Clinton, Brennan, the Special Ops leader...

I didn't hear anything about the decision not to release photos of Bin Laden dead though (if it was addressed, I missed it).

Back in February, a large batch of Hillary Clinton's emails was released. One of them was yet another piece of advice from Sidney Blumenthal, a member of Bill Clinton's former administration. This time, the advice was about how to handle conspiracy theories circulating that bin Laden was not actually dead.

In the email, Blumenthal suggested that the Administration show the photos of Bin Laden to members of Congress. Here was his reasoning (emphasis added):

“Having the members file through will provide testimony to the President’s feat. They will be not only be acknowledging but also enhancing his power. They will in effect become liegemen bowing before him, but not in any way they will resent or will protest. They will serve as witnesses to the magnitude of what he has done.

Having the whole Congress see the photos would have these likely impacts as well: The far right wing Tea Party Republicans would by their mere presence admit to the President’s status above them and to his effectiveness.”

Blumenthal sent the memo to Clinton on May 5, 2011. Reporting by CNN several days later shows that some members of Congress did in fact view the photos of bin Laden.

REF: http://www.ijreview.com/2016/02/538220-h...th-photos/

[Duchess]

I fell asleep and missed it. Now I'm scrambling around trying to find video of it and all I can find are highlights that last a minute or two. Balls!

[Donovan]

I have no doubt that Bin Laden is dead. But I think it had a lot different story in how it went down than the public was told. And yes, I think our leaders probably lied about watching the raid out of necessity in order to protect someone or something. I do not have a problem with our leaders with holding key information from time to time. Necessary evil of poker and politics.

[Blindgreed1]

I have no doubt that Bin Laden is dead. But I think it had a lot different story in how it went down than the public was told. And yes, I think our leaders probably lied about watching the raid out of necessity in order to protect someone or something. I do not have a problem with our leaders with holding key information from time to time. Necessary evil of poker and politics.

So the guy that's backing the liar has no issue with being lied to. In other news, a man attempting to walk around the world today drowned. Now here's Tom with sports.