Osama Bin Laden

[Rob ITST]

I picture this scenario:

You land in a helicopter at this giant compound, with 15ft concrete walls, barbed wire, etc. You're storming through the building, up flights of stairs, probably with a lot of shooting/yelling/flash grenades/other crazy chaotic shit going on. This is going on for 25 minutes. You see the guy you came for - himself a well trained, war hardened soldier; the world's most wanted man. When you approach him, he makes a move. You're not sure what he's doing, but he's not surrendering.

What's your next move? I know mine, and it ends with me being alive.

[Coolhand Texas]

I picture this scenario:

You land in a helicopter at this giant compound, with 15ft concrete walls, barbed wire, etc. You're storming through the building, up flights of stairs, probably with a lot of shooting/yelling/flash grenades/other crazy chaotic shit going on. This is going on for 25 minutes. You see the guy you came for - himself a well trained, war hardened soldier; the world's most wanted man. When you approach him, he makes a move. You're not sure what he's doing, but he's not surrendering.

What's your next move? I know mine, and it ends with me being alive.

Thank you Rob, for expressing what I was thinking so clearly!

[Amazing Matheja]

...

What's your next move?...

"Huh?!? What the f***?!??..." - shit in pants.

[TomBs]

If the objective of the mission is to capture him alive I'd try everything to capture him alive. In case I end up dead I'd just restart the mission.

[Rob ITST]

...

What's your next move?...

"Huh?!? What the f***?!??..." - shit in pants.

Yeah, that probably would be mine too. That, or collapse in a corner in the fetal position.

[jayl0ve]

I'd go absolutely apeshit with the machine gun

[VillaJ100]

you know for sure its gonna be a mission in modern warfare 3 or some related game.

[DRII]

I think its pretty obvious that there was a kill order, if it happened at all...

[VillaJ100]

dont worry, the pics, or at least A pic, will be leaked.

[Bowler2151]

photos have come out but none of them are of bin laden.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/0 ... k2%7C60618

I dont think it matters if we release the photos of bin laden, I thought this comedian made a very good point on why we should.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-m ... 1/face-off

I have no doubt that the military may not the whole truth about whats going on but the fact is the most wanted man in the world is dead. What else do you need to know?
The US has come really close several times to actually killing him so there would be know reason to come out now and make up a story that we got him. If we wanted to make up the story it would of probably been done a while go.

There was a pakistan man who lived close to bin laden, when he first heard the helicopters he went onto his twitter account and was giving minute by minute updates on what he was hearing. Theres one story from someone who isnt American on what happened.

[beltic caldy]

I picture this scenario:

You land in a helicopter at this giant compound, with 15ft concrete walls, barbed wire, etc. You're storming through the building, up flights of stairs, probably with a lot of shooting/yelling/flash grenades/other crazy chaotic shit going on. This is going on for 25 minutes. You see the guy you came for - himself a well trained, war hardened soldier; the world's most wanted man. When you approach him, he makes a move. You're not sure what he's doing, but he's not surrendering.

What's your next move? I know mine, and it ends with me being alive.

Rob, you'll do well to convince me that a highly highly trained squad of special forces operatives (not regular soldiers) couldn't have taken Bin Laden alive if they had wanted to.

- nope, not convinced in the slightest by this argument - there are (granted, unconfirmed) reports suggesting now that Bin Laden may have been captured and executed in situ.


Sigh. On a separate note, here's (part of a report from) the latest from the BBC, from the White House:

President Barack Obama has said publishing photos of the dead Osama Bin Laden threatens US national security.

"I think that, given the graphic nature of these photos, it would create some national security risk," Mr Obama said.


uh-huh. Photo of a dead chap = national security risk. Can this get any more farcical?


(full link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13290274)

[Coolhand Texas]

I picture this scenario:

You land in a helicopter at this giant compound, with 15ft concrete walls, barbed wire, etc. You're storming through the building, up flights of stairs, probably with a lot of shooting/yelling/flash grenades/other crazy chaotic shit going on. This is going on for 25 minutes. You see the guy you came for - himself a well trained, war hardened soldier; the world's most wanted man. When you approach him, he makes a move. You're not sure what he's doing, but he's not surrendering.

What's your next move? I know mine, and it ends with me being alive.

Rob, you'll do well to convince me that a highly highly trained squad of special forces operatives (not regular soldiers) couldn't have taken Bin Laden alive if they had wanted to.

- nope, not convinced in the slightest by this argument - there are (granted, unconfirmed) reports suggesting now that Bin Laden may have been captured and executed in situ.


Sigh. On a separate note, here's (part of a report from) the latest from the BBC, from the White House:

President Barack Obama has said publishing photos of the dead Osama Bin Laden threatens US national security.

"I think that, given the graphic nature of these photos, it would create some national security risk," Mr Obama said.


uh-huh. Photo of a dead chap = national security risk. Can this get any more farcical?


(full link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13290274)

well you know some people are just ignorant as hell.

and I can see where he is coming from. showing a derogatory picture of their dead leader? Why wouldnt that enrage them?

[djarvik]

I picture this scenario:

You land in a helicopter at this giant compound, with 15ft concrete walls, barbed wire, etc. You're storming through the building, up flights of stairs, probably with a lot of shooting/yelling/flash grenades/other crazy chaotic shit going on. This is going on for 25 minutes. You see the guy you came for - himself a well trained, war hardened soldier; the world's most wanted man. When you approach him, he makes a move. You're not sure what he's doing, but he's not surrendering.

What's your next move? I know mine, and it ends with me being alive.

So he "makes a move" when more then a few soldiers with automatic weapons run into the room from all sides? ....which movie you took it out of? Scarface?

Not buying it. Not even close. Not even remotely close. He is a leader, not a soldier. The is a HUGE deference.

To me - this was an execution. I just wish they would say it straight up like that. No conspiracy, just say this was a mission to kill - mission accomplished.

...but surely the whole world would jump on US because of that.

[Chederer]

Beltic Caldy....i see that you are pretty adamant in getting your point across about wanting some proof. obama is right, to show a picture of a dead man would threaten our national security....i am sure the Queen of England and King Juan Carlos of Spain would say something if we were to do this. showing a picture like this would be on the level of these crazy middle eastern countries....theres no need for that type of animal crazed behavior.

[Chederer]

I picture this scenario:

You land in a helicopter at this giant compound, with 15ft concrete walls, barbed wire, etc. You're storming through the building, up flights of stairs, probably with a lot of shooting/yelling/flash grenades/other crazy chaotic shit going on. This is going on for 25 minutes. You see the guy you came for - himself a well trained, war hardened soldier; the world's most wanted man. When you approach him, he makes a move. You're not sure what he's doing, but he's not surrendering.

What's your next move? I know mine, and it ends with me being alive.

So he "makes a move" when more then a few soldiers with automatic weapons run into the room from all sides? ....which movie you took it out of? Scarface?

Not buying it. Not even close. Not even remotely close. He is a leader, not a soldier. The is a HUGE deference.

To me - this was an execution. I just wish they would say it straight up like that. No conspiracy, just say this was a mission to kill - mission accomplished.

...but surely the whole world would jump on US because of that.

im pretty sure when bin laden heard the sounds of helicopters he knew something was up ...his first initial move would probably be to grab some weapons to defend himself....the navy seals are an elite group of men on a mission to kill most of the time, not to capture. The U.S. knew for over a year bin laden was in that compound....in my mind the way it happened was perfect because all the attention was on the unrest of the muslim world such as libya, egypt, syria, etc. this was planned out from long ago---i guarantee it