"This operation was years in the making".... Kirk S Lippold (Ret) Commander

[ScreamingMeemie]

USS Cole. (just now on CNN) Years in the making? When Bush said that bin Laden wasn't important anymore? Really?

[valerief]

1. Bush was just playing three-dimensional chess. nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I guess!

:)

[Abq_Sarah]

3. The actual operation wasn't years in the making

But the intelligence gathering that lead to the location of bin Laden took place over many years.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I would agree with that statement. But that wasn't the statement.

[Zen Democrat]

5. Actually not. We got the actionable intelligence from Gitmo prisoners last August.

These were guys who talked while NOT being subjected to torture or "harsh interrogation techniques" which Obama outlawed at Gitmo. From the code names the prisoners had of OBL's trusted couriers, our intelligence on the ground determined their names, found them, tracked them to the compound and the operation was planned to take him out.

[Abq_Sarah]

6. No, that's not exactly how it went down

We received the specific location of the courier last August after tracking his possible movements over the last 4 years.