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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:05 PM
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'For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo'
'For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo': The words the SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden radioed home - and why no-one will ever know his identity

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021260/Osama-Bin-Laden-Full-details-raid-catch-Al-Qaeda-leader-know-SEALs-identity.html#ixzz1Tu6QiTJk


When he pulled the trigger on his silenced rifle in a darkened bedroom in Pakistan and shot a tall, unarmed man with a straggly beard in a prayer cap and shalwar kameez, he ended a nine-year manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, the man who claimed 2,973 lives on September 11, 2001.

But no-one - not even President Barack Obama - will ever know the name of that SEAL, nor of the comrade who wrapped Bin Laden's wives in a huge bear hug and dragged them aside in case they were wearing suicide bomb vests, knowing he would absorb most of the blast and save the men behind him.

For the first time, the full fascinating details of that world-changing raid on Abbottabad, Pakistan have been revealed, from the CostCo sandwiches the White House ordered for the Situation Room to the SEAL's first words after he killed the world's most-wanted man: 'For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.'

According to the article in this week's New Yorker, it also emerged 'there was never any question of detaining or capturing' Bin Laden - even though the White House always insisted the terror leader would not have died if he'd surrendered.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021260/Osama-Bin-Laden-Full-details-raid-catch-Al-Qaeda-leader-know-SEALs-identity.html#ixzz1Tu62B56h
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:47 PM
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1. We totally fucking killed Bin Laden eom
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:59 PM
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2. And yet the War On Terror sucks billions per day from the treasury
So I guess UBL is still terrorizing us, every day. What a guy!
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 04:12 PM
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3. His intention
is alleged to been to screw the US financially.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 08:42 PM
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5. And airport workers get to probe our bellies and smell our shoes...eom
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 05:00 PM
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4. Oh good, "death squad" hagiography is just what we need now. nt
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