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A lot of the scaffolds have collapsed, so an entire section of the house looks to be missing. One can make out the similarity though, unlikely to have many houses of the same description in a very small area like that.
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One has to have a IQ of a squirrel to believe ISI was oblivious about Osama's whereabouts when he was infact quite literally living among them!
Saar, protest this gross character assassination of squirrels by comparing their IQs with "anal-ysts" who believe ISI was lily white...
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Pakistani media interviewing the Mason who constructed that house.

There were 3 rooms on the ground floor and 3 rooms on the first floor.
The house was owned by two brothers, who were very soft spoken and cooperative with the neighbours according to another local.
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They probably GUBO'ed the house from Helicopter gunships. Reports say that the house had several internal walls with security gates.
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Posting this once again.
Alright jumping the gun again.

But this might be a picture of the house.
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GEO news is showing a house on fire which has pillars similar to this house.
This house is in Bilal town in Abbottabad in the general area where that house is supposed to be.
Someone in Flicker has posted this image as a house that was under construction close to his own house there.

If someone can get a screen grab of the house ablaze as shown on GEO News.
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Gagan wrote:If someone can get a screen grab of the house ablaze as shown on GEO News.
Got a screencap. What's a good place to host it now that imageshack doesn't show everywhere?

Image shack link is here:
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[edit]Posted same image hosted on tinypic below[/edit]
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^^
Tinypic?
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Finger of suspicion at Pak military for protecting bin Laden

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 141352.cms
The finger of suspicion is pointing squarely at the Pakistani military and intelligence for sheltering and protecting Osama bin Laden before US forces hunted him down and put a bullet in his head on Sunday. The coordinates of the action and sequence of events suggest that the al-Qaida fugitive may have been killed in an ISI safehouse.


Within hours of the news of bin Laden's killing, speculation raged about Pakistan and its spy agency's role in the momentous episode. President Obama made it clear that the operation to hunt down bin Laden was conducted exclusively by US forces -- ''a small team of Americans,'' he said -- at his direction. While he thanked Pakistan's civilian government for its help, naming President Zardari in particular, he made no mention of any other active Pakistani role, especially in the operation. It was "all-American" and "Made in USA," he seemed to say.


But in a glaring counter-narrative, Pakistani security officials claimed bin Laden was nailed in a joint operation between CIA and Pakistani forces. "It was carried out on a very precise info that some high-value target is there," one Pakistani official was quoted as saying.


US analysts uniformly suggested this was clearly aimed at ducking charges of the Pakistani military's possible role in hiding bin Laden. ''This is hugely embarrassing for Pakistan,'' was a common refrain on US TV channels throughout the night.


In fact, top US officials have openly suggested for months that the Pakistani military establishment was hiding bin Laden. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came closest to publicly exposing Pakistan's role last May when she accused some government officials there of harboring Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.


''I am not saying they are at the highest level...but I believe somewhere in this government are people who know where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida and where Mullah Omar and the leadership of the Taliban are,'' Clinton said on May 10 last year, adding, ''We expect more cooperation (from Pakistan) to help us bring to justice capture or kill those who brought us 9/11.''


Taken together with President Obama's pointed 'thank you' to President Zardari and leaving out any mention of Pakistani forces' involvement, it would seem that Washington believes that Pakistan's military intelligence establishment, including the ISI, was sheltering bin Laden. The ISI was accused as recently as last week by the top US military official Admiral Mike Mullen of having terrorist links, and named as a terrorist support entity by US officials, according to the Guantanamo cables.


Lending credence to the charges is the fact that US forces homed in on bin Laden in Abbottabad, which is a cantonment just 50 kms from Islamabad, where the Pakistani military has a strong presence. The place where bin Laden was killed is only kilometers from the Kakul military academy, where many Pakistani military elites, including some of its ISI cadres, graduate from.

While US officials are tightlipped about precise details, analysts are trying to figure out whether the compound that sheltered bin Laden was an ISI safehouse. There is also speculation as to whether Hillary Clinton was referring to this when she made her pointed remarks last May.


US officials have said for years that they believed bin Laden escaped to Pakistan after the American bombing campaign in Afghanistan. But Pakistani officials, including its former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, insisted that he was in Afghanistan, even as Afghan officials would angrily refute it and say he is in Pakistan. In the end, the Americans and Afghans were right on the money
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Tinypic image. Thanks for heads up Sriman.
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BTW are you comparing the pillars or what?
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Gagan wrote:I have added a location on google earth for people to download and see.

Download KMZ file
BBS Keyhole page link: Link 1
Link 2

First ever approximate location posted on google earth BTW
For your attention, from D&D Forum

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.166389,73 ... in%20Laden
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Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharaff says: America coming to our territory and taking action is a violation of our sovereignity. The handling and execution of the operation is not correct. The Pakistani government should have been kept in the loop. If there is a lack of trust, its bad. We are fighting the same enemy. It's wrong, strategically. The issue of trust is very bad.

And even better: "People who said he wasn't in Pakistan should have thought before they spoke. I mostly said, "I don't know"
:rotfl: :rotfl:
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That image on google earth / acme mapper is dated 6/15/2005 (15th June 2005)

OBL's mansion was constructed over the last 5-6 years. Confirmed also in an interview of the mason who actually helped build that house.

Therefore this is not that house.

The placemark by D&D forum is WRONG.
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One of the US helicopters was damaged during the operation and the troops decided to destroy it themselves with explosives.
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One news snippet also said that Ayman Al Zawahiri has also been captured.
But that news has not been repeated yet. Will wait for this to be confirmed.

So a rumour
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Zee news is repeating my description of my location almost verbatim.
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Gagan: Just out of curiosity, what landmarks are you using to identify the place. Reason I ask is that the place you pointed out appears bigger, but doesn't seem to have any walls around it and has another house very close by. The other house is smaller, but has a visible hedge all around it. Confusion onlee... :((
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Osama death: An embarrassment Pakistan can't live down

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'Osama bin Laden is dead,' US President Barack Obama [ Images ] declared from the White House. He could as easily have said Al Qaeda [ Images ] is dead, as without Osama, his organisation does not have the leadership to strike the same kind of terror across the world.

The announcement was dramatic, but what was of even greater significance is that the killing of bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan, will be a precursor to a major strategic shift in American policy for the region, and will impact directly on Pakistan in the long and short run.

It is significant and ironic that for several hours after the announcement by the US president, there was complete silence in Islamabad.

Obama made it clear that US intelligence had got a lead about bin Laden's whereabouts as far back as August last year, that the developments were being closely monitored since then by him and his national security team, and that he sanctioned the final action as part of his administration's policy that if the US knew the Al Qaeda leader's whereabouts it would act directly with or without the host country's permission.

In passing reference, the US president said Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had been informed, and that American special forces had succeeded because of the overall cooperation from the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies.

Clearly a decision had been taken early on to keep the information secret, and not bring the Pakistanis into the loop. In other words, the US administration acted on its own intelligence, using its own special forces to finally track down and kill the Al Qaeda leader living just outside Pakistan's capital, in a highly secure, military area.

This is an embarrassment Pakistan will not be able to live down internationally.

More than that, it is confirmation of what the Americans and the world community has been saying for a while now, that the Pakistan military and establishment was aware of bin Laden's whereabouts and had decided to keep the information away from the Americans.

It was impossible for bin Laden to live in the luxurious building with a huge compound in Abbotabad without the knowledge of the Inter Services Intelligence or the Pakistan military.

It does seem as if he was housed in what can be described as a 'safe house' even as Pakistan pretended to be helping the Americans in the much publicised war against terror.

Pakistan's credibility has suffered a severe blow with the complicity of its military and intelligence agencies coming under the global scanner.

There is no doubt that the Pakistan government will have a great deal of explaining to do, more so after the hue and cry it made over the arrest of the American Raymond Davis after he allegedly killed a couple of Pakistanis. That incident had clearly caused bad blood between the two countries, with the events leading up to the arrest and killing of Osama bin Laden [ Images ] merely confirming the US claim of Pakistani complicity.

It does seem now that the Davis incident might have been related, and it might not be far fetched to presume that his decision to kill the two Pakistanis was perhaps linked to the fresh intelligence information that American special forces were pursuing in Abbotabad.

Pakistan will also face flak from within with the conservative forces attacking the government for working with the Americans and conversely, for allowing the Amercians complete access to its territory.

The issue of sovereignty is likely to reverberate on the streets of Pakistan for a while with conservative political forces expected to organise protests against the government.

On both fronts the Pakistan government will be in the firing line. Clearly neither its president nor its prime minister are astute and skilful enough to turn the damaging turn of events into at least some faintly credible show of victory.
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From NYT
Al Qaeda sympathizers reacted with disbelief, anger and in some cases talk of retribution. On a Web site considered an outlet for Al Qaeda messages, forum administrators deleted posts by users announcing Bin Laden’s death and demanded that members wait until the news was confirmed by Al Qaeda sources, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that monitors radicals.

Even so, SITE said, sympathizers on the forum posted messages calling Bin Laden a martyr and suggesting retaliation. “America will reap the same if the news is true and false,” said one message. “The lions will remain lions and will continue moving in the footsteps of Usama,” said another, using an alternate spelling of Bin Laden’s name.

In the United States, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy organization, said it welcomed Bin Laden’s death. “As we have stated repeatedly since the 9/11 terror attacks, Bin Laden never represented Muslims or Islam,” the group said in a statement. “In fact, in addition to the killing of thousands of Americans, he and Al Qaeda caused the deaths of countless Muslims worldwide.”
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Gagan wrote:One news snippet also said that Ayman Al Zawahiri has also been captured.
But that news has not been repeated yet. Will wait for this to be confirmed.

So a rumour
Every bit of information coming out needs to be dusted dry to verify if its the truth, there has been quite a lot of lies floating around which leads to even more speculation and running off on tangents!

Finding it hard to focus on anything else (work included) today.
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this Mush appears to be insane. Violation, does he know how criminal it is to harbour a terrorist all these while.
And yes, now US forces need to take crash courses from him on conducting such operations.
Yeah, we all can see the trust you have created for so long.

Btw, it seems from his lines that Pak govt may really not have been involved in this operation, as opposed to what pak media is stating out.
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From NYT
It will be fascinating to see what the Pakistani reaction is to a U.S. military operation on their soil. It seemed to me that President Obama was going out of his way to sound deferential to Pakistan — and to emphasize that Osama was an enemy of Pakistan as well as of America — precisely because he was concerned that Pakistanis might react with outrage at an American military operation.

President Obama said that he had word last August that Osama might be in a compound in Abbottabad. It took a long time to evaluate that information, and last week it was confirmed enough to order a strike. Then today there was an assault by American forces (perhaps a C.I.A. team or special forces?) and after a firefight bin Laden was killed and his body recovered. I can’t help wondering if Raymond Davis, the American who was arrested by Pakistanis after shooting people in Lahore while apparently on a C.I.A. operation, was somehow involved in this operation to confirm bin Laden’s presence, and if that wasn’t a reason for the hush-hush nature of his work. And of course this also raises questions about how Osama got to Abbottabad from Afghanistan and what if anything the Pakistanis knew. President Musharraf and others always told me and others that Osama was in Afghanistan, not Pakistan, and even suggested that he might have died. So much for Musharraf. :rotfl:
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Rahul M wrote:
arnab wrote:Did Pasha's going to US earlier this month have anything to do with this? Did he skedaddle back within 24 hrs because he was told the jig was up?
you think osama would still be there is pakis knew in advance ?? :eek:

zero chance of that.
In 1998, when cruise missiles hit the Afghan Osama's hideouts and terror camps, the US informed Pakistan just an hour or two before the operation so that Pakistan did not mistake the missiles coming from India and start a war. Somebody informed Osama who escaped just in time.
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Detective Work on Courier Led to Breakthrough on Bin Laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world ... en.html?hp
After years of dead ends and promising leads gone cold, the big break came last August.
A trusted courier of Osama bin Laden’s whom American spies had been hunting for years was finally located in a compound 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, close to one of the hubs of American counterterrorism operations. The property was so secure, so large, that American officials guessed it was built to hide someone far more important than a mere courier.

What followed was eight months of painstaking intelligence work, culminating in a helicopter assault by American military and intelligence operatives that ended in the death of Bin Laden on Sunday and concluded one of history’s most extensive and frustrating manhunts.

American officials said that Bin Laden was shot in the head after he tried to resist the assault force, and that one of his sons died with him.

For nearly a decade, American military and intelligence forces had chased the specter of Bin Laden through Pakistan and Afghanistan, once coming agonizingly close and losing him in a pitched battle at Tora Bora, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. As Obama administration officials described it, the real breakthrough came when they finally figured out the name and location of Bin Laden’s most trusted courier, whom the Qaeda chief appeared to rely on to maintain contacts with the outside world.

Detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had given the courier’s pseudonym to American interrogators and said that the man was a protégé of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

American intelligence officials said Sunday night that they finally learned the courier’s real name four years ago, but that it took another two years for them to learn the general region where he operated.

Still, it was not until August when they tracked him to the compound in Abbottabad, a medium-sized city about an hour’s drive north of Islamabad, the capital.

C.I.A. analysts spent the next several weeks examining satellite photos and intelligence reports to determine who might be living at the compound, and a senior administration official said that by September the C.I.A. had determined there was a “strong possibility” that Bin Laden himself was hiding there.

It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains where many had envisioned Bin Laden to be hiding. Rather, it was a mansion on the outskirts of the town’s center, set on an imposing hilltop and ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.

The property was valued at $1 million, but it had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection. Its residents were so concerned about security that they burned their trash rather putting it on the street for collection like their neighbors.

American officials believed that the compound, built in 2005, was designed for the specific purpose of hiding Bin Laden.

Months more of intelligence work would follow before American spies felt highly confident that it was indeed Bin Laden and his family who were hiding in there — and before President Obama determined that the intelligence was solid enough to begin planning a mission to go after the Qaeda leader.

On March 14, Mr. Obama held the first of what would be five national security meetings in the course of the next six weeks to go over plans for the operation.

The meetings, attended by only the president’s closest national security aides, took place as other White House officials scrambled to avert a possible government shutdown over the budget.

Four more similar meetings to discuss the plan would follow, until President Obama gathered his aides one final time last Friday.

At 8:20 that morning, Mr. Obama met with Thomas Donilon, the national security adviser; John O. Brennan, the counterterrorism adviser; and other senior aides in the Diplomatic Room at the White House. The president was traveling to Alabama later that morning to witness the damage from last week’s tornadoes. But first he had to sign off on the final plan to send intelligence operatives into the compound where the administration believed that Bin Laden was hiding.

Even after the president signed the formal orders authorizing the raid, Mr. Obama chose to keep Pakistan’s government in the dark about the operation.

“We shared our intelligence on this compound with no other country, including Pakistan,” a senior administration official said.

It is no surprise that the administration chose not to tell Pakistani officials. Even though the Pakistanis had insisted that Bin Laden was not in their country, the United States never really believed it. American diplomatic cables in recent years show constant American pressure on Pakistan to help find and kill Bin Laden.

Asked about the Qaeda leader’s whereabouts during a Congressional visit to Islamabad in September 2009, the Pakistani interior minister, Rehman Malik, replied that he “’had no clue,” but added that he did not believe that Bin Laden was in the area. Bin Laden had sent his family to Iran, so it made sense that he might have gone there himself, Mr. Malik argued. Alternatively, he might be hiding in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, or perhaps he was already dead, :rotfl: he added, according to a cable from the American Embassy that is among the collection obtained by WikiLeaks.

The mutual suspicions have grown worse in recent months, particularly after Raymond Davis, a C.I.A. officer, shot two men on a crowded street in Lahore in January.

On Sunday, the small team of American military and intelligence operatives poured out of helicopters for their attack on the heavily fortified compound.

American officials gave few details about the raid itself, other than to say that a firefight broke out shortly after the commandos arrived and that Bin Laden had tried to “resist the assault force.”

When the shooting had stopped, Bin Laden and three other men lay dead. One woman, whom an American official said had been used as a human shield by one of the Qaeda operatives, was also killed.

The Americans collected Bin Laden’s body and loaded it onto one of the remaining helicopters, and the assault force hastily left the scene.

Obama administration officials said that one of helicopters went down during the mission because of mechanical failure but that no Americans were injured.

It was 3:50 on Sunday afternoon when President Obama received the news that Bin Laden had tentatively been identified, most likely after a series of DNA tests.

The Qaeda leader’s body was flown to Afghanistan, the country where he made his fame fighting and killing Soviet troops during the 1980s.

From there, American officials said, the body was buried at sea.
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ArmenT,
I look at google earth, wikimapia, google internet search.
I always look at clues on google earth, things such as roads, addresses, any information at all in that area.
It helps to make a picture, things can be cross verified.

The place that I have listed is indeed between Bilal and Hashmi Colony.
I was scanning news and I came across these possible locations. This got confirmed by two media outlets on TV. But I already had that location marked out. Unofrtunately that image is 6 years old on google earth and thus all other earth mapping sites. There is no such high walled compound visible.

But on google earth people can load flicker images. In the general area that I have marked, someone has uploaded photos, I went through the photos and this one house looks similar.

The house marked on D&D is an old compound that seems to be ready in the image dated 2005, whereas OBL's mansion was constructed over the last 5-6 years. So that house can't be visible on the current image. I have therefore marked out the general area, I hope Google earth updates the images of that area. Then we will know for sure!

The place marked on D&D is marked as F G Girls college Abbotabad on Wikimapia.
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So it is Human Intelligence (HUMINT) all the way, hain jee?
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^^ Had to be only HUMINT since Al-Q was always a expert at keeping things primitive to ensure that TECHINT couldnt reach them. They were really wary of Amir-khan TECHINT prowess.

Something for our HUMINT nude/TECHINT heavy agencies to ponder on...
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Lisa wrote:
Gagan wrote: For your attention, from D&D Forum

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.166389,73 ... in%20Laden
Wikimapia shows above as some Girls' college, so unlikely to be OBL's hideout.
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abhishek_sharma wrote:So it is Human Intelligence (HUMINT) all the way, hain jee?

Considerable moolah and US citizenship for all concerned including families. 8)
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Yes F.G Girls college abbottabad.
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chetak wrote:Considerable moolah and US citizenship for all concerned including families. 8)
Oh yeah? How much for each BRfite? We've been providing intel about his location for years now. Look near Isloo... probably near/inside a military HQ... Pakistan... Pakistan... Pakistan...

I'm expecting a big fat check, pronto! Recession be damned!
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abhishek_sharma wrote:Detective Work on Courier Led to Breakthrough on Bin Laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world ... en.html?hp
When the shooting had stopped, Bin Laden and three other men lay dead. One woman, whom an American official said had been used as a human shield by one of the Qaeda operatives, was also killed.

The Americans collected Bin Laden’s body and loaded it onto one of the remaining helicopters, and the assault force hastily left the scene.

Obama administration officials said that one of helicopters went down during the mission because of mechanical failure but that no Americans were injured.

It was 3:50 on Sunday afternoon when President Obama received the news that Bin Laden had tentatively been identified, most likely after a series of DNA tests.

The Qaeda leader’s body was flown to Afghanistan, the country where he made his fame fighting and killing Soviet troops during the 1980s.

From there, American officials said, the body was buried at sea.
The gentleman in question is still alive!!
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One Question Gurus, How did the US heli Copter get in soo close to Isloo, SUrely there are enough Radars, Ground spotters to in Pakjab to know that a unidentified Helicopters from aForeign Mitlary was approahing, Which bases were these launched? Lots of Questions?
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Bharat Verma on Zee News.

I am loving the tone and tenor of almost news channels out of India. BR language all the way.
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Zaid Hamid, Gul etc are going to weave an endless conspiracy out of US burying OBL in the sea within two hours.

Couldnt OBL's body have been brought to the USA and his identity verified in detail?
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Just noticed two hospital complex close by to the compund wall. Goes to prove that OBL needed frequest medical attention. Pakis have been caught with their pants down since midnight. :twisted:
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and the Groper says...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told AFP in an interview on Monday that the US killing of Osama bin Laden, not far from the Pakistani capital, was a "great victory".


http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=15019
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WASHINGTON: Just hours after American Navy Seals shot dead Osama bin Laden in a compound in Pakistan on Sunday, US President Barack Obama shot down the Pakistani security establishment's attempt to claim joint credit for the operation
ToI Reports

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Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

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Aditya_V wrote:One Question Gurus, How did the US heli Copter get in soo close to Isloo, SUrely there are enough Radars, Ground spotters to in Pakjab to know that a unidentified Helicopters from aForeign Mitlary was approahing, Which bases were these launched? Lots of Questions?
There are US helicopters and aircraft based at Chaklala airbase cum Islamabad Airport.

The helicopters could have been launched from there.

Another report says that the attack was launched form Tarbela. That place is about 25 km from Abbottabad, and is halfway along the line between abbottabad and Kamra.

The US has had significant military presence in Pakistan. They could always conduct such an operation. This also tells us how sold out Pakistan is today, and how much pakistan is at the mercy of the US.
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Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

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"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan," Obama said, adding, "A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability."
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Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

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'Who says Osama was a terrorist?'
There was however some resentment about the fact that he was in Pakistan. Imam Bukhari says it proves the contention that ISI gives shelter to terrorists. "I am not saying Osama was a terrorist but the fact that outfits like JEM and Let have bank accounts in the US show that the Us and ISI jointly sponsor the acts of terrorism in India."
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