Bin Laden Death – The Internet is There (Book Update)
ABC News has footage of the compound-house aftermath … warning – graphic and detailed.
The DOD has put an illustration of the compound.
Location mapped on Google Maps (with reviews – reviews NSFW – well, not safe for kids).
And an IT guy who moved to Addottabad to work in quiet – who live tweeted the other night that helicopters were disturbing his sleep and then explosions … (not knowing what was going on).
You can read the rest of the link from MASHABLE.
And for geeks gamers, the best comment on how Bin Laden was found … “Bin Laden shouldn’t have used his real address on PS Network.”
BOOK UPDATE –
A book about the Navy Seal group Seal Team Six, members of which killed Osama Bin Laden will be published this May.
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard Wasdin, is due to hit stores on May 24.
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six
SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)—the toughest and longest military training in the world.
After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First there was combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then the Green Course: the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, with a curriculum that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges. Finally as a member of SEAL Team Six he graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country: The Marine’s Scout Sniper School. Eventually, of the 18 snipers in SEAL Team Six, Wasdin became the best—which meant one of the best snipers on the planet.
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2 May 2011
22 Comments
Just wondering if anyone out there is thinking like me. I think bin laden should have been caught alive. This way the US would have shown his capture and in chains and face all those families that lost loved ones through all his terror. And then face the death penalty like Saddam Hussien.
Supposedly they gave bin Ladin the chance to surrender but he tried to use one of his wives as a human shield and the SEALs had no other option but to insert a bullet into his head just above his left eye. I’m sure they much rather would have taken him alive but he left them no choice.
I think he should have been buried alive in one or the corners of the new Towers.
Just that alone would have given everything meaning and justification.
I think they did it just right, otherwise we’d have another Omar Abdel-Rahman on our hands (a.k.a. “The Blind Sheik”).
May be I will let my “humane” part to suffer, but I have to say that I am glad that guy who was responsible for taking thousands innocent lives, is dead.
Killing was too good for that animal. I took part in 2 funerals for members of the FDNY. The first was Captain William Burke Jr. of E-21 and FF David Fontana of Squad 1. David died on his 8th wedding anniversary. He was an accomplished sculptor and artist. He left behind his wife Marian and a son Aidan. Yeah killing was too good for him but I’ll take it.
I’d rather hear about how the Navy Seacrests broke into that bunker and turned Oilsama Bin Lincoln into a pile of scrap-metal.
I understand Donald Trump is demanding to see the official death certificate!
Osama is to blame for destroying the rest of the haulers, RV’s, deluxe, pit row sets, FL’s, and Mattel distribution. Just kidding. Well, anyway, got an update about those FL’s that haven’t been released yet. And those haulers, pit row sets. And wasn’t there supposed to be a Kmart-Matty line of RV’s and deluxe. I hope they’re still on the way. If not, I’d be very upset, especially how Mattel teased us with all those prototype photos of CArs that would never come.
Bin Ladin was stupid. I’m glad hes dead.
Well said. He’s responsible for thousands of deaths. I am too glad they killed him.
i like that comment about playstation. it said on the news he had no phone or internet.
Go away Dinoco helicopter, before i take out my lightning storm mqueen. :-S
Yea man its about time!!!
That will teach him for ordering CARS 2 on E-Bay and complaining shipping Charges… lol
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I heard on the radio earlier today that the White House is contemplating releasing photos of Bin Laden’s corpse as proof of the kill. They also stated that there are “authentic” photos of the body online already but I haven’t searched for myself to see.
There is a fake one out there of his face & head, but I have not seen an authentic one yet.
I actually have the photo out of the middle east that is claiming it is him. Looks like the bullet went in the left eye. All swollen and white. If it is indeed him then they cleaned him up well! His mouth is open as if he died in pain. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME! Amen!
Joey
That photo is fake, it’s been circulating for 2 years. Here’s a link to the comparison photos. Even a novice on PhotoShop can pull this one off:
http://www.loadpictures.net/pics/d3f7232dc0c6ce0b7bb72556fe061475.jpg
3,519 days overdue, but neat!!!
That Google map is not correct. Here is the correct location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Osama+Bin+Laden&aq=&sll=34.146667,73.216389&sspn=0.081689,0.208569&g=Abbott%C4%81bad,+Khyber+Pakhtunkhwa,+Pakistan&ie=UTF8&ll=34.169186,73.242872&spn=0.002441,0.006518&t=h&z=18
(MET: Updated).
Thanks for fixing the link Met, but the image you’re showing is still wrong.
There are also some hilarious “guest reviews”:
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=9294138184493326603&q=osama+bin+laden&hl=en&view=feature&mcsrc=google_reviews&num=10&start=40&ie=UTF8&ll=34.169215,73.242433&spn=0,0&t=h&z=14