I hope this is for real, including the image???
Bin Laden killed in 'mansion'
Islamabad - Osama bin Laden was killed in a helicopter raid on a mansion in an area north of the Pakistani capital, US and Pakistani officials said on Monday.Four helicopters launched the attack in the Bilal area of Abbottabad, about 100km north of Islamabad, said a Pakistani intelligence official. One of the helicopters crashed after it apparently was hit by fire from the ground, the official said. He gave no word on casualties.
He said the helicopters took off from a Pakistani air base in the north of the country.
Women and children were taken into custody during the raid, he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
A US official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the raid was on a mansion close to Islamabad.
Announcing the operation in a televised statement in Washington, US President Barack Obama said the operation took place on Sunday.
The news that bin Laden was killed close to Islamabad will raise questions of how he managed to evade capture and how long he had been there.
Most US intelligence assessments had placed him along the lawless border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Bin-Laden-killed-in-mansion-20110502
About bloody time. Just wondering how he could he have lived "happily ever after" in Pakistan without the Pakistan Intelligence knowing anything about it? Thanks heavens he got "smoked". I did not have the stomach for another long trial.
The Telegraph;
19.36 The woman used by bin Laden as a human shield during the raid on his compound was "presumed to be his wife," Brennan says.
19.20 More Brennan at briefing: President Obama made one of "the most gutsiest calls" of any president in giving the go-ahead for the bin Laden raid.
Mr Brennan said bin Laden was hiding behind women, who were used as a human shield, when he was confronted by US special forces troops. One woman was killed.
19.17 At a White House briefing, head of US counter-terrorism John Brennan says the special forces would have picked up bin Laden alive if he had surrendered and offered no threat.
If there was an opportunity to take him alive, we would have done that, he said. But Mr Brennan said President Obama was not prepared to risk US casualties.
Pressed over how it seems inconceivable that the Pakistani authorities could not have known that bin Laden was living in their military midst, Mr Brennan said that the US suspected bin Laden had some kind of support in Pakistan that allowed him to stay there.
But he said the US government was now hoping that the rest of al-Qaeda could now be buried along with bin Laden.
19.57 Brennan said it was "inconceivable" that bin Laden did not have a support network in Pakistan.
People are referring to it [bin Laden’s location] as hiding in plain sight. Pakistan is a large country, but we are looking at how he was able to hide there for so long. We are talking with the Pakistanis on a regular basis and we are pursuing all leads to determine what kind of support system and benefactors he may have had.
It is inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for such a long period of time.
I’m not going to speculate on what sort of support he may have had on an official basis.
But he added that Pakistan is responsbile for killing more terrorists than any other country and insisted that the US was committed to maintaining its "strategic relationship" with the country.
In initial conversations, the Pakistani authorities appeared "as surprised as we were" that the al-Qaeda leader was hiding out in Abbottabad, Brennan said.
20.25 The details of bin Laden's capture will harm his credibility among supporters, Brennan said.
“Living in this million dollar plus compound, in an area that is far away from the front, hiding behind a woman: it really speaks to just how false his narrative has been over the years,” the US counter-terrorism chief said.
He added that a woman “presumed to be bin Laden’s wife” was “positioned in a way that indicated that she was being used as a human shield, whether bin Laden or his son put her there, or she put herself there.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8487374/Osama-bin-Laden-killed-live.html
"...hiding behind a woman..." - I suppose, what more do you expect from a man who asks woman and children to strap bombs to themselves and to blow themselves up, to kill themselves and other innocent civilains, woman and children included.
The Bin Laden Mansion
18.46 Despite its location in the affluent suburb of Abbottabad, the the compound housing bin Laden was more of a fortress than a home, the Telegraph's Richard Alleyne reports.
Surrounded by 18ft walls topped by barbed wire, the only access was through two security gates. Built around five years ago at an estimated cost of £600,000, its accommodation block is three storey's tall. Such is the emphasis on privacy that even the third-floor terrace is shielded by a seven-foot wall. Inside officials said the house was sectioned up – and may have even been designed to hide a secret home within a home
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8487374/Osama-bin-Laden-killed-live.html
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