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Title: Detective Work on Courier Led to Breakthrough on Bin Laden
Source:
NY Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/w ... apture-osama-bin-laden.html?hp
Published: May 2, 2011
Author: MARK MAZZETTI and HELENE COOPER
Post Date: 2011-05-02 09:20:10 by war
Keywords: Osama Dead As A Ding Dong, [snicker]
Views: 7755
Comments: 25
WASHINGTON — 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, 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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#1. To: war (#0)
Along side Barry's birth certificate. war, your a fucking idiot. Only you could believe this about being buried at sea.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Chuckles...
America...My Kind Of Place...
1) Anything with Al Qaeda in it is an AgitProp lie. Note how well this fits into a brand new CIAda MeMe. Led by the All Star General Petraeus... 2) "“We shared our intelligence on this compound with no other country, including Pakistan,” a senior administration official said." And right next to one of our 'hubs'. And exactly what Int'l Law gave the US the right to do this? 3) And then we spirit the body away ASAP. Jesus.. How long did they spend of this story? IT just reeks of bullshit. Watch as I take this story apart...8D
Along side Barry's birth certificate. war, your a fucking idiot. Only you could believe this about being buried at sea. So you're finally coming around to wondering about how OBL fits into the Official WH CT on 9/11? 8D And just exactly when DID the CIA lose contact with OBL? Tick Tock...
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So, when is the Magical Negro disbanding Homeland Security and ending the wars? Come to think of it, Homeland Security is too good a place for perverts like Barry's supporters to engage in sexual assault. Good place for you and your Lycra/spandex.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
The US Congress authorized the POTUS to use all means necessary to kill or captire the perps of 9/11. International law recognizes that what was done on 9/11 was as much an act of war as it was a criminal act. The US had a tacit agreement with Pakistan that we had permission to enter into Pakistan to get Bin Laden. I see no violations here. I hope that someone took a big shit right in that camelfucker's mouth and then smeared him him pig's blood and bacon grease before they sent him to the sharks...
America...My Kind Of Place...
"Thats because your basically and idiot." Would you like to show me that 'agreement'? Reports of IDF jets massing at a base in Iraq. And that had better not be true. The War for Oil. The War for the Jews. U Pic 'Em. Too Convenient. Like JFK. What's the rush to get rid of the body...
So Fuucking obvious. The Truth will treakle out like piss from an 89 year old... "By James Howard Kunstler on May 2, 2011 8:42 AM Mark these words: within about three hours, the "Birther" faction around America will be asking for Osama Bin Laden's driver's license. What I'd like to know is how come he was "buried at sea," when the operation took place at least a thousand miles from the sea. Did the US Navy Seals transfer his remains from a helicopter to a boat? Or to an airplane? And did they just drop him over the night-darkened Indian Ocean like a sack of lentils? By the time you read this, the whole world will be clamoring for photos of the deceased. Maybe our guys will produce some. Quien Sabe? I didn't intend to write about Bin Laden this morning, but rather the nutrient medium of untruth that has come to surround all the tissue of everyday life in the USA. Until the Bin Laden operation went down Sunday... An EXACTLY. Everyone was intending to write something else. Something Dark. But what EXACTLY is the US EMpire buying TIME for? " Stoneleigh: Monbiot places a great deal of faith in scientific consensus, but this presents considerable pitfalls in its own right. Truth and consensus are not necessarily identical, nor even comparable. There are many academic fields, including economics and finance which we focus on here at The Automatic Earth, where an established consensus acts as a substantial impediment to discovering the truth about events and to making sense of them. It can be virtually impossible to fund or publish studies conflicting with received wisdom which has hardened into dogma. Since only data from peer reviewed publications is considered evidence, it is possible to ignore huge amounts of relevant information and reinforce the fallacious consensus even further. All conflicting information is then dismissed as anecdotal. This is exactly what appears to have occurred in relation to Chernoby (Or Fill in the Blank;)
The US Congress authorized the POTUS to use all means necessary to kill or captire the perps of 9/11. US Congress isn't Int'l Law. And just who ARE the perps of 9/11? Future prophecy (comin' in days): When we start getting back into WTC 7 and the impossibility of Basement Explosions WTC 1 & 2 and the 2 E-4B's, a Gulfstream, C130, 3 Langley jets circling DC as a 16 ft hole opens up in the Pentagon and Zero proff of Flt 77, And WHY we still need the TSA, Patriot Act, Continuity (Emergency) of Gov't. And why we still need the War of Terror, we'll be going back to Missing white girls and their dead babies news/with Infomercials...watch.
Fifth Gen Warfare? A person, thru an individual action (still not proved to this day, btw.} can initiate a War between two/more Nation/States? Serious? Why not Interpol? The Afghans stated from the GetGo: "Show us the proof and we'll give you OBL".
Because you don't want to look... So tell me, war. How Do we stop the War of Terror? The World runs out of oil?
And finally: OBL, like Saddam was OUR stooge. His Inner Circle was a veritable UN of spies. Like, so why are we now fighting in Pakistan? Looks like a War for the Jews to me.... When do we invade Israel? For the USS Liberty for instance. Just sayin.....;}
It's a twofer. Something for everybody.
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
Yea so?
America...My Kind Of Place... You'll get no argument from me about Saddam. We should have given him the go ahead to take out Saudi Arabia too...
America...My Kind Of Place... Serious? GO back and see WWI.
America...My Kind Of Place... We don't...they do...
America...My Kind Of Place... Yea so? As long as you're winning.... just don't ever lose. ;} And We're still waiting on Colin Powell's White Paper....and Iraq's WMD... " White House officials said the discovery was the result of painstaking intelligence work. A senior official with direct knowledge of the operation said that “much of the actionable intelligence” had been garnered from the “strenuous interrogation” of Iraqi prisoners being held in Abu Ghraib prison. The discovery comes just days after news reports on alleged prisoner abuse by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib – allegations which threatened to become a major scandal, and perhaps an obstacle to Mr. Bush’s chances for re-election in the fall. But today’s news will likely sweep away such concerns, along with the lingering doubts over the existence of Iraq’s WMD, and the resulting discontent with a war that has proven more difficult to end than most people expected. The crowds that spontaneously appeared outside the White House and at Ground Zero in New York to cheer the news seemed to bear out this analysis. “He was right all along, he was right to invade, he was right to treat these prisoners like the animals they are,” said Sandra Lucas, a day-care teacher from Baltimore who came to the White House to celebrate...."
Serious? GO back and see WWI. BWAHAHAHA 8D Waiting for that. And you can see-- Germany gives Austro-Hungarian Empire "blank cheque" to present demands to Serbia. The 'one man' is almost always the pretext...;} in retrospect.
But we own the KSA... Note US/KSA history: 1932 Chevron discovers oil Arabia. 1933 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed....;}
We don't...they do... They, Holding the Whip Hand over the US EMpire Policy, is who?
;} Cost so far of the War of Terror: $1.18 trillion....counting.....
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
From there, American officials said, the body was buried at sea.
#2. To: Rudgear (#1)
your a fucking idiot
#3. To: war (#0)
(Edited)
#4. To: Rudgear (#1)
From there, American officials said, the body was buried at sea.
#5. To: All (#4)
#6. To: war (#2)
#7. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
And exactly what Int'l Law gave the US the right to do this?
#8. To: war (#0)
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#9. To: war (#7)
#10. To: All (#9)
#11. To: war (#7)
And exactly what Int'l Law gave the US the right to do this?
#12. To: war (#7)
(Edited)
International law recognizes that what was done on 9/11 was as much an act of war as it was a criminal act.
#13. To: war (#7)
I see no violations here.
#14. To: war (#7)
(Edited)
I hope that someone took a big shit right in that camelfucker's mouth and then smeared him him pig's blood and bacon grease before they sent him to the sharks...
#15. To: mcgowanjm (#9)
The War for Oil. The War for the Jews. U Pic 'Em.
#16. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
US Congress isn't Int'l Law.
#17. To: mcgowanjm (#14)
#18. To: mcgowanjm (#12)
A person, thru an individual action (still not proved to this day, btw.} can initiate a War between two/more Nation/States?
#19. To: mcgowanjm (#13)
How Do we stop the War of Terror?
#20. To: war (#16)
US Congress isn't Int'l Law.
#21. To: war (#18)
A person, thru an individual action (still not proved to this day, btw.} can initiate a War between two/more Nation/States?
#22. To: war (#17)
You'll get no argument from me about Saddam. We should have given him the go ahead to take out Saudi Arabia too...
#23. To: war (#19)
How Do we stop the War of Terror?
#24. To: Rek (#15)
It's a twofer. Something for everybody.
#25. To: mcgowanjm (#24)
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