U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S. national security official told Reuters.

"This was a kill operation," the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.

(Reporting by Mark Hosenball, writing by Matt Spetalnick)


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_binladen_kill;_ylt=AmxcSGq8d_T80oOT3quMX0us0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNrZTdpN2RnBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwNTAyL3VzX2JpbmxhZGVuX2tpbGwEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM4BHBvcwM1BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDdXN0ZWFtMzlzbWlz


This is one of those stories that will disappear down the memory hole probably.

Might be worth grabbing.

[CBGLuthier]

1. I personally take all of his statements taking credit for 9/11

to be enough of a confession. No need for a trial. Fuck him. I don't really expect anyone to ever deny we set out to kill him.

Some people just plain need killing.

[Myrina]

3. ... will you feel the same way when they try to do the same to one of our leaders?

:shrug:

POTUS admitted that OBL was assassinated. So that opens him, and our combat troops, to calls for 'justice' from the other side - after all, they as much as "confessed" to their involvement, right?

[FourScore]

2. That was the best way to handle the matter. Good job! n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Um

I'm OK with that.

:thumbsup:

[Nye Bevan]

5. Good. I didn't want him to be read his Miranda rights and offered a public defender (nt)

[Bragi]

6. My rights are safe with you then?

If you're a fan of extrajudicial murder, I don't want to entrust my rights to you.

Me, I'm an old-fashioned rule of law guy.

But don't wory, we're all old and will die off eventually so you can anjoy your brave new world.

[oneshooter]

7. So you would also consider the death of Isoroku Yamamoto,

ordered by FDR, to be murder?

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[lpbk2713]

8. Life is full of unpleasantries.

Some people need to accept this as a basic truth.

[bighart]

9. I am a bit suprised they would admit this.

How long before we get the "I am now a martyr" tape he made just in case he was killed or captured?

[treestar]

10. They would have known he was not willing to be taken alive

this is the guy behind the suicide mission on 9/11/01.

[slackmaster]

11. Good.

:nuke:

[seabeyond]

12. good decision for many reasons. nt

[Ganja Ninja]

13. As it should be. n/t

[Marblehead]

14. Why didn't they capture

him and torture a confession out of him??? That is the way it's done.