TheCorinthian Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 MARSOC is only #8!!!!!!???? The Bastards!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 << HUNDREDS of Osama bin Laden supporters clashed with English Defence League extremists today as a “funeral service†for the assassinated terror leader sparked fury outside London’s US Embassy. Police stepped in to separate the chanting groups amid threats of violence from both sides. >>. There will always be an England ... maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 Big mistake not to take the trouble-makers into custody and deport them. Failing that, make them "disappear". Kind of taking a page out of the way things are done in their homelands. :content: HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 The English Defence League are "extremists", but the bin Laden folks shouting death to everyone are "supporters". Meanwhile ... Saxby Chambliss: First shot at Osama bin Laden was a miss Moments before he died, Osama bin Laden may have gotten a brief glimpse of what was headed his way – as a bullet whizzed by his head. U.S. commandos missed with their first shot at the world’s most wanted man poked his head out of a third-floor room in his fortress, according to U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Bin Laden ducked back in, and the Navy SEALS quickly followed and finished the job, Chambliss said in a telephone interview this afternoon. The missed shot was a new detail in the emerging story of the 40-minute raid on the Abbottabad compound in Pakistan. Chambliss also said commandos found a pistol and AK-47 in bin Laden’s room. More details to come later, but here’s what Chambliss said: [color:red]â€I hope they went in with the idea of killing him, not capturing him. We needed to take this guy out. And I know that’s what the executive order said.[/color] “The other thing you have to remember is that this was pitch dark. When they got into the room with bin Laden, they already had to go through some other folks downstairs, two of which they killed. And they were having to use explosives to blow doors open. By the time they got to him, they didn’t know what they would find.†The SEALS encountered bin Laden on the third floor of the compound, after blowing a door that led down a hallway, Chambliss said. â€They blew the door open, and they looked down the hallway and he stuck his head out of the room that he was in, and saw them, and ducked back in. They fired a shot, and missed him the first time – and then went to the room. And that’s when they killed him.†Chambliss added this: “They did in fact find an AK-47 and a pistol in bin Laden’s room. Whether he was making any move to get to that is not clear. But taking him down in pitch-dark conditions was the right thing to do.†The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee also expressed puzzlement at the varying accounts of the raid coming out of the White House. For instance, John Brennan, the president’s advisor on terrorism, on Monday gave an account of the raid that didn’t square what CIA Director Leon Panetta had given Chambliss and other senators the day before. For instance, Brennan told reporters that bin Laden had used his wife as a shield in his last moments. The White House later disavowed that detail. “You’d think that 24 hours after the fact, they’d be able to ferret things out a little more,†Chambliss said. “But I know that anytime you have a situation like this – it happens in a far-off land, and you’ve got 24 guys rushing into a compound, guns a-blazing, there’s going to be confusion.†Still, Chambliss said, “Every day it seems like somebody is having to straighten out some fact.†So it was definitely a hit ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 http://vickykapoor.com/articles/top10-special-forces/ With regards to the list, my question is there any huge discernible difference between #10 and #1? By the way, getting hit and accepting would autmatically move you up the list damn near number one the CS category for bad ass. Basically, given a certain scenario where special forces are needed, could any one on the list get it done? If you need 30 points, does it make a difference if its LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird or Magic Johnson? Or for our non North American friends, does it matter if its Pele, Maradonna, Cryuff, van Basten, George Best or Lionel Messi who gets the ball and you need a goal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 Who cares if it was a hit or not? Just think of the $$$$ saved from having to give this ass a trial. Heck, that might be the most fiscally responsible thing BO has done yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 I wouldn't count the $$$$$ just yet. Maybe just the trigger needed. Stay off trains on high bridges in the US........kaboooooom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 you'll love that bust, you really would Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 Was Bin Laden betrayed by his right-hand man? Al Qaeda's deputy leader 'led U.S. troops to Pakistan hideaway' Osama Bin Laden's deputy led U.S. troops to the Al Qaeda leader's hideout so he could take over the terrorist group, it was claimed today. Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahiri, who has been touted widely as the man who will succeed Bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda, turned his back on his terrorist leader following a prolonged power struggle, according to a Saudi newspaper. The plot to get rid of Bin Laden began when Zawahiri’s faction persuaded bin Laden to leave the protection of the tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border. Instead, they convinced him to set up home in Abbottabad, where he was finally killed by U.S. Navy SEALS earlier this week, a regional source told Al-Watan newspaper. Zawahiri's Egyptian ally Saif Al Adel is said to have moved to Pakistan last autumn as Al Qaeda's 'chief of staff' after a period of house arrest in Iran. With his return, Al Qaeda's Egyptian faction then hatched a plan to dispose of Saudi-born Bin Laden after irresolvable divisions developed between the terrorist group's top two men. 'The Egyptian faction of Al Qaeda is defacto running the organisation now and since he was taken ill in 2004 they have been trying to take full control,' the paper wrote on Thursday. The courier who led U.S. forces to Bin Laden was a Pakistani national working for Zawahiri, according to the source. The man is said to have known he was being followed by American troops and to have intentionally led them to their target. Zawahiri met Bin Laden in the mid-1980s and they have since became the closest of allies, with analysts describing Zawahri as Al Qaeda's chief organiser and bin Laden's closest mentor. As the terror group's number two, he has at times been Al Qaeda's most public face, often seen denouncing the United States and its allies in video messages. Yesterday it emerged American special forces troops had claimed a treasure trove of evidence from Bin Laden's lair, which they hope will lead them to other high-ranking leaders of Al Qaeda, including Zawahiri. After sweeping the fortress, forces are said to have found a haul of ten computers, ten mobile phones, and a hundred memory sticks. Computer analysts, and experts in numerous languages, are now seeking to crack any encryption used to protect the various devices, before trawling through the mass of data held on them to see what it can tell them about the Al Qaeda terror network. The suggestion that Zawahiri turned on Bin Laden and tipped off U.S. troops about his whereabouts comes as Al Qaeda confirmed its leader's death. In a statement posted in jihadist internet forums, the group admitted Bin Laden had been killed in a raid on his suburban compound in Abbottabad. But it also warned the U.S. that their leader's blood would not be 'wasted' and that American citizens' 'happiness will turn to sadness'. The statement, signed by 'the general leadership' of the Al Qaeda, read: 'We stress that the blood of the holy warrior sheik, Osama Bin Laden, God bless him, is precious to us and to all Muslims and will not go in vain. We will remain, God willing, a curse chasing the Americans and their agents, following them outside and inside their countries. 'Soon, God willing, their happiness will turn to sadness. Their blood will be mingled with their tears.' The confirmation by Al Qaeda of their leader's death will ease pressure off U.S. President Barack Obama after he faced criticism for refusing to release pictures of Bin Laden's dead body. On Wednesday, Obama announced the U.S. would not make the pictures public for national security reasons. The President said: 'We do not need to spike the football. That’s not who we are. We don’t trot this stuff out as trophies.' Obama also maintained that there was no doubt among Al Qaeda members as to whether Bin Laden had been killed. ‘So we don’t think that a photograph in and of itself is going to make any difference,’ he added. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted May 7, 2011 Report Share Posted May 7, 2011 Big mistake not to take the trouble-makers into custody and deport them. Failing that, make them "disappear". Kind of taking a page out of the way things are done in their homelands. :content: HH Sounds like the 'American' way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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