The man who shot Osama Bin Laden

davidk14
davidk14: .

Interesting article.

http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?click=pp

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ohnonotthatguy
ohnonotthatguy: boring
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CatO9_Tales
CatO9_Tales: what? why didn`t the interviewer correct her if she named the wrong Usama Bin Laden? Is this doctored? hmmm
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Ms_Mafdet_The Great
Ms_Mafdet_The Great: The plot sickens: Another 1:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Lung infection in 2001 ....

The sheeple who believe "seal team 6" killed him are gonna hate this

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lori100
lori100: veteranstoday--------Friday, January 13th, 2012 | Posted by Gordon Duff

Bury Bin Laden at Arlington?--------------In fact, we have been totally unable to connect bin Laden to any violent act against America at all, including during lengthy debriefings of his CIA handler and former White House Intelligence Coordinator, Lee Wanta. Here is what we had found out some time ago: -------------Two weeks ago, CIA Director Leon Panetta told the press the CIA had not been able to positively confirm any specific information on Osama bin Laden since “late 2000.”

Interviews with high ranking military and intelligence officials, some at the highest levels, have confirmed that all evidence lends toward Osama bin Laden’s death in December 2001.
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Ms_Mafdet_The Great
Ms_Mafdet_The Great:

Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows
Two years after raid on al-Qaeda's leader's hideout it appears Pentagon moved relevant documents to CIA, erased traces to avoid Freedom of Information Act
Yitzhak Benhorin, AP
Published: 07.08.13, 20:30 / Israel News


Washington - Military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout were purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public, the AP news agency reported.

The secret move, described briefly in a draft report by the Pentagon's inspector general, set off no alarms within the Obama administration even though it appears to have sidestepped federal rules and perhaps also the US Freedom of Information Act.

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The one responsible for the data purge from the Pentagon's computers is top US special operations commander, Adm. William McRaven, who wanted to protect the the names of the Navy SEAL personnel involved in the Pakistan raid.



Bin Laden's hideout destroyed by bulldozers (Photo: AFP)

AP has recently filed the Pentagon with a request to peruse said documents but was buffeted when the reply came that no such files exist in the Pentagon's computers.

The Pentagon's response represents a new strategy for the US government to shield even its most sensitive activities from public scrutiny.

McRaven's directive sent the only copies of the military's records about its daring raid to the CIA, which has special authority to prevent the release of "operational files" in ways that can't effectively be challenged in federal court.

The Defense Department can prevent the release of its own military files, citing risks to national security, but that can be contested in court and a judge can compel it to turn over non-sensitive portions of records.

McRaven's unusual order would have remained secret had it not been mentioned in a single sentence on the final page in the inspector general's draft report that examined whether the Obama administration gave special access to Hollywood executives planning a film, "Zero Dark Thirty," about the raid.

McRaven described steps he took to protect the identities of the SEALs after the raid, directing that their names and photographs not be released.

"This effort included purging the combatant command's systems of all records related to the operation and providing these records to another government agency," according to the draft report. The sentence was dropped from the report's final version.

Since the raid on Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan a member of the Navy SEAL's team who participated in the raid released a book describing the operation, and another SEAL member exposed additional details in a comprehensive interview for Esquire magazine.

However, media outlets and pro-freedom of information NGOs blame the Obama administration of hiding documents pertaining to the raid, and demand their release.

In the first days following Bin Laden's assassination the White House gave conflicting versions of the operation's details. At first it was reported the Bin Laden was armed and even fired toward the SEAL team, and that his wife died in the fire exchange – information that was later revealed to be false.

Afterward, the White House spokesperson related the false data to "fog of war."

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4402469,00.html
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lori100
lori100: The Western Center For Journalism---------Obama’s SEAL Team 6 Coverup

May 30, 2013 by Kris Zane ------------------On August 6, 2011, a military helicopter— Extortion 17— carrying thirty-eight men (including twenty-five of the elite SEAL Team 6, five National Guard and Army Reserve, and eight Afghan commandos) was shot down over Taliban-controlled territory in eastern Afghanistan. They had been on a top secret mission to take out a high-value target.




It was the worst loss of life in a single day since the war in Afghanistan began. Per a 1250-page military report, it was simply the result of a “lucky shot” by Taliban soldiers perched on top of a building. Per families of those killed and military experts at a press conference held on May 9, 2013, this is a lie among a host of other lies.

After the families attended a several hour military briefing about this “lucky shot,” describing what happened and why their sons died, they smelled a rat and started digging around.

Billy and Karen Vaughn, parents of Navy SEAL Aaron C. Vaughn, started poking around at the “official” story and found not a rat, but a stinking swamp, a coverup that went all the way to the top.

When the Vaughns began trying to drain the swamp, they received what the Obama administration is famous for: the shakedown. None other than one of the highest ranking officers in the nation—Admiral William McRaven, commander at U.S. Special Operations Command—paid the Vaughns a little visit, in essence telling them to keep their mouths shut.

What exactly happened on August 6, 2011? What went wrong—or in this case went right that has the Obama administration dispatching high-ranking officers as thugs?
-----------------------There are two possibilities, according to information revealed at the press conference:

1. The Obama administration sent American soldiers on a suicide mission, or

2. Someone set up our American heroes—that is, had them murdered—that may include the Afghan government—or shockingly may include Barack Hussein Obama himself.

We learned seven major facts at the press conference:

1. Thirty SEAL Team 6, National Guard, and Army Reserve were packed into a decrepit 1960s era CH-47 helicopter (something, according to military experts, that was unheard of.) Per military experts, special operations were always conducted with the state-of-the-art MH-47 helicopter—the helicopter SEAL Team 6 exclusively trained in. Further, never—ever—were that many special operations personnel packed into a single helicopter. They were always split up into small groups with multiple MH-47s.

2. Although the military could have easily taken out the Taliban positions with a drone strike prior to the operation, as the families were later told, this was not done because there were possible “friendlies” among the Taliban; the United States wanted to “win the minds and hearts of the enemy.”

Billy Vaughn, father of Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn, speaking at the press conference with rage in his voice, blasted this ludicrousness:


Aaron did not become a Navy SEAL Team 6 Gold Squad to win the hearts and minds of the Islamic jihadists. He became a Navy SEAL to fight for this republic and defeat the enemy!

3. Although the military had intel that the Taliban were planning on firing on a helicopter, although an intense battle had been raging for several hours, and although normal protocol mandated that the CH-47 required at least one gunship escort, all normal rules of war were suspended.

But now for the real coverup by the Obama administration:

4. There were eight nameless Afghan commandos onboard the CH-47. Eight Afghan commandos were loaded onto the CH-47 along with their American counterparts; but at the last minute, they were replaced without changing the manifest. It was as if someone knew they were going on a suicide mission and pulled them out. The official in charge of the investigation (General Jeffrey Colt), in his 1250-page report, did not address this fact and did not even mention it. In fact, it is likely these original Afghan commandos contacted the Taliban, telling them the CH-47 was on its way. It appears the Taliban knew the exact time and route the CH-47 would be using; that the only way the “lucky shot” would have been possible with the helicopter thousands of feet in the air in cover of darkness would have been if the Taliban had been tipped off.

5. Everyone on Extortion 17 was immediately cremated without permission from the families, supposedly because the bodies were so badly burned in the crash. According to Charles Strange, father of Navy SEAL Michael Strange, this need to immediately cremate everyone aboard is a complete lie. Taliban on the ground in fact found the bodies of the crew. The Obama administration cremated everyone in order to cover up something.

6. The CH-47 black box was “lost” according to the military investigation—“washed away by an Afghan flood.” As most know, aircraft black boxes don’t get “lost”; they are virtually indestructible and carry a tracking device that makes them easy to locate. It was “lost” in order to cover up something the Obama administration wants to keep hidden.
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