Bin Laden's Final Hours

[naive]

Great article..

After more than nine successful years in hiding, he considered himself to be an expert: “It is proven that the American technology and its modern systems cannot arrest a Mujahid if he does not commit a security error that leads them to him,” he wrote. “So adherence to security precautions makes their advanced technology a loss and a disappointment to them.”

The computer turned bin Laden’s words into neat lines of uniform Arabic. He was feeling confident. He had five days to live.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2...ssination-plot

[naive]

Starting with these words 8 months earlier:

Eight months earlier, on a hot day in August, Tom Donilon, then the deputy national-security adviser, had added a brief item to the end of his daily morning briefing for Barack Obama. He said, “Leon and the guys at Langley think they may have come up with something”—something related to bin Laden.

The only major dissenters were Biden and Gates, and before the raid was launched, Gates would change his mind.

The vice president was never shy about political calculations. “Mr. President, my suggestion is: don’t go,” he said. “We have to do two more things to see if he’s there.” Biden believed that if the president decided to choose either the air or the ground option, and if the effort failed, Obama could say good-bye to a second term.

I know one thing for sure after reading the article several times....Obama has one helluva set of kahunas to make the final decision to go for the with the raid..The odds, at best, were 50-50...

Major props to all involved for keeping this a secret, not only from a public perspective, but from a political perspective as well...

Things like this make for a great Commander in Chief..

[Brohan]

Great article..

After more than nine successful years in hiding, he considered himself to be an expert: “It is proven that the American technology and its modern systems cannot arrest a Mujahid if he does not commit a security error that leads them to him,” he wrote. “So adherence to security precautions makes their advanced technology a loss and a disappointment to them.”

The computer turned bin Laden’s words into neat lines of uniform Arabic. He was feeling confident. He had five days to live.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2...ssination-plot

Got anything on Chris Stevens final hours?

[naive]

Got anything on Chris Stevens final hours?

http://talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=323240#

Let me know when they find that Obama ordered that attack...Should be interesting to read the detailed planning that went into it as well...

[Creekman]

Got anything on Chris Stevens final hours?

It won't be long before you conspiracy theorists have egg on your face.....again!

But you could play it like the "birfer conspiracy".....again!

[mcorioles]

And ironically enough some on here twisted and took GW's words out of context AGAIN to enhance their Bin Laden story, no surprise there.As it says right in the article that the hunt for OBL never ended under GW .And curiously enough a courier they had been tracking for 8 YEARS helped locate OBL ,I guess Bush does get some credit too , huh?. I'm glad OBL is dead and could not care less if it happened on GW's watch or Obama . Thanks for this link very interesting, I will probably purchase this book.

[The Eternal White Belt]

Thanks for posting the link... and for making me waste my lunch break.

Couldn't stop reading!

[naive]

Thanks for posting the link... and for making me waste my lunch break.

Couldn't stop reading!

Sorry about your lunch!!! The article just grabs a hold of you and won't let go!!!

Very captivating..

[dsummoner]

This: " If he does not commit a security error that leads them to him" is exactly what happened.

[naive]

This: " If he does not commit a security error that leads them to him" is exactly what happened.

pretty much...

His daily walks in the garden certainly did not help his cause either!! Even though survelliance photos were very good, they could not see his face..They were using the size of his shadow cast to determine his height...

Amazing stuff...