Just In: Osama is dead

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

My guess is that he simply looked at a disposable plastic picnic knife that just happened to be in the room, which was just enough justification to warrant a bullet to the forehead.

From quotes I've read from US politicians who have seen photos of OBL's corpse the bullet that killed him entered one eye and exited his ear. Now that's shooting!

[LBraden]

To be a shot like that, it would have had to been an angle shot, and would have been a left eye to right ear, or vice versa.

Though honestly, there are still numerous different iterations coming out of what happened, I doubt we will truly know, but I have to link this, if only for the chuckle.

http://trekmovie.com/2011/05/06/gema...laden-mission/

[Mohoender]

I have no clue and no comment on Bin machin's death and, I'll probably won't have any viable opinion before 70 years (at which point I'll be dead).

However, when I look at the picture showing Obama and his staff watching the intervention, I can help it but to think that something didn't go as planned.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Mohoender

However, when I look at the picture showing Obama and his staff watching the intervention, I can help it but to think that something didn't go as planned.

From what I can gather from my reading, one of our choppers malfunctioned as they got to UBL's hidey hole. So, the "Plan" went out the window.

Who was it that said "In combat, a plan is great until there is contact with the enemy"? This may be a mis-quote on my part, but I think the point gets across.

My two cents!

Mike

[dragoon500ly]

And to add insult to injury, two more jerks got tagged for pretending to be SEALs....one even discribed a Steven Segal movie plot to his home town paper, claiming to have really done this.

Guess the wannabes will be coming out of the woodwork now!

[Raellus]

Supposedly the heavily modified "stealth" Blackhawk crashed after hitting some sort of turbulence caused by the tall walls of the complex.

I'm sure when the news came through that a chopper had crashed during the op, Obama & co. had flashbacks to the Desert One debacle.

[Panther Al]

I would tend to think *everyone* involved had that flashback hit them at that moment.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Supposedly the heavily modified "stealth" Blackhawk crashed after hitting some sort of turbulence caused by the tall walls of the complex.

You'd think that given they'd run through the op on a 1:1 model of the complex, they'd have been aware of the turbulence issue and modified their plan accordingly.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that the US don't want to admit that somebody on the ground got lucky and slotted a bullet or two into something vital during the approach. Seems faaaaaaar more likely than a mechanical fault kicking in at that last critical moment, or "turbulence" they should have known about.

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

"In combat, a plan is great until there is contact with the enemy"? This may be a mis-quote on my part, but I think the point gets across.

The one I learn in the army was no battle plan ever survies frist contact with the ememy

you use for number of other thing like added in wife or scout troop in place of ememy and removing battle

[boogiedowndonovan]

my bad LBraden already posted the link about a german tv station showing the wrong SEAL Team 6 logo.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20061024-71.html