Bin Laden kill mission on RTE

Tigerandahalf · 28-08-2012 11:49PM #1

Anyone just see it.
Seems like they took a huge risk with the operation.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 28-08-2012 11:49PM

Must be a repeat.

Ghost Train · 28-08-2012 11:51PM

RTE are known for taking risks... no they're not

Colmustard · 28-08-2012 11:51PM

Leonidas Substantial Fairy wrote: »

Must be a repeat.

He might get away this time.

Tigerandahalf · 28-08-2012 11:53PM

One of the Black Hawk helicopters crashed in the operation. The whole story and operation is pretty intriguing.

mike65 · 28-08-2012 11:54PM

Is Bin Laden getting a repeat fee for this?

Mr.Crinklewood · 28-08-2012 11:56PM

mike65 wrote: »

Is Bin Laden getting a repeat fee for this?

When they kill the real one he will :-)

Tigerandahalf · 28-08-2012 11:58PM

Well if the operation went wrong Obama was in it big time. I wonder were Packistan in on the whole operation. Seems hard to believe Obama and the US would take such a risk with an operation without the go ahead of Pakistan.

wendell borton · 28-08-2012 11:59PM

A lot of similarities with the iran hostage rescue attempt and the blackhawk down incident but this time it worked out.

Gallant_JJ · 29-08-2012 12:02AM

Well that was some pile of lies!

Tigerandahalf · 29-08-2012 12:03AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ob93nxoSMQ

Run_to_da_hills · 29-08-2012 12:03AM

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Anyone just see it.
Seems like they took a huge risk with the operation.

Edit: Anyone just see it.

Seems like they took a huge risk with the operation camera crew.

Thelonious · 29-08-2012 12:05AM

If you believe Osama Bin Laden was killed last year by the Navy Seals, you are extremely gullible.

LETHAL LADY · 29-08-2012 12:05AM

I never watched such garbage in my life. The thing about measuring Bin Laden by his shadow was just ridiculous. Also the bit thrown in about murdering three thousand innocent people and this by a country whose past leaders have murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and everywhere else they could get away with it or should that not be mentioned.

refusetolose · 29-08-2012 12:07AM

one of the seals has wrote a book about it

tis out next week

he may be in a bit of hot water over it though

Firefox11 · 29-08-2012 12:11AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I never watched such garbage in my life. The thing about measuring Bin Laden by his shadow was just ridiculous. Also the bit thrown in about murdering three thousand innocent people and this by a country whose past leaders have murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and everywhere else they could get away with it or should that not be mentioned.

They didn't measure him by his shadow. One of the the navy seal team lay down beside him to get an idea of height. Pretty cool operation and im glad they killed him.

refusetolose · 29-08-2012 12:11AM

Firefox11 wrote: »

They didn't measure him by his shadow. One of the the navy seal team lay down beside him to get an idea of height. Pretty cool operation and im glad they killed him.

when they were sussing him out first they tried using his shadow to get his height

Tigerandahalf · 29-08-2012 12:12AM

Forget about the politics for the moment.
If Bin Laden wasnt killed in the operation it would have left the US open to being ridiculed if he turned up on TV the following week. Clearly Obama gained a huge amount politically through the operation being successful. However if it failed it could have sunk him. Would he have taken such a big risk without Pakistan being in on the operation.

LETHAL LADY · 29-08-2012 12:12AM

Firefox11 wrote: »

They didn't measure him by his shadow. One of the the navy seal team lay down beside him to get an idea of height. Pretty cool operation and im glad they killed him.

Was Bin Laden not on kidney dialysis?

Corkblowin · 29-08-2012 12:12AM

Thelonious wrote: »

If you believe Osama Bin Laden was killed last year by the Navy Seals, you are extremely gullible.

Gallant_JJ wrote: »

Well that was some pile of lies!

I love how some people just KNOW stuff without any proof or backup other than what they've made up in their own heads!

TeddyTedson · 29-08-2012 12:13AM

I think it's largely bull****.
They talked how they ordered pizzas from lots of different companies the night of the mission so that news papers wouldn't get suspicious that something big was happening.
This is the most powerful country in the world we're talking about here (China says Hi).

Tigerandahalf · 29-08-2012 12:16AM

Ya I read somewhere that Bin Laden's health wasnt meant to be great. Hard to know what defence he might have put up.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 29-08-2012 12:17AM

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Ya I read somewhere that Bin Laden's health wasnt meant to be great. Hard to know what defence he might have put up.

He could've grabbed his wife and used her as a human shield.

Gee Bag · 29-08-2012 12:17AM

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Ya I read somewhere that Bin Laden's health wasnt meant to be great. Hard to know what defence he might have put up.

He could have challenged them to a dance-off

Tigerandahalf · 29-08-2012 12:20AM

It is amazing the amount of people that were involved in the operation and the length of time in preparing for it. Some achievement that it wasnt leaked. The Black Hawks it appears were capable of avoiding radar detection.

Happyman42 · 29-08-2012 12:21AM

I have never seen such a preposterous, unchallenged, American glorifying pile of propaganda tosh in my life. There is a fine line between documentary and spoof, it would seem.

Geekness1234 · 29-08-2012 12:26AM

Seems hard to believe Obama and the US would take such a risk with an operation without the go ahead of Pakistan.

That's why it was so risky in the first place.
Pakistan has a fairly capable air force thanks to Foriegn Military Aid as well as an intricate Radar network.
The Pakistani military initially thought the attack was Indian in origin,but by the time they had prepped F-16s for launch it was over,as well as being out of reach of most Indian helicopters.
Just shows how little America trusts Pakistan.

Tigerandahalf · 29-08-2012 12:26AM

Well it was clearly made to make Obama look good. It seems they were only 40 - 60% sure that Bin Laden was in the compound yet they went ahead with the mission. One of the peculiar aspects of the programme was the piece where the local boys playing cricket hit their balls into the compound and instead of giving the balls back they gave the kids money.

Corkblowin · 29-08-2012 12:26AM

Happyman42 wrote: »

I have never seen such a preposterous, unchallenged, American glorifying pile of propaganda tosh in my life. There is a fine line between documentary and spoof, it would seem.

What exactly was preposterous about it?

Deliverance · 29-08-2012 12:28AM

Those blackhawks keep going down don't they.

Happyman42 · 29-08-2012 12:29AM

Geekness1234 wrote: »

That's why it was so risky in the first place.
Pakistan has a fairly capable air force thanks to Foriegn Military Aid as well as an intricate Radar network.
The Pakistani military initially thought the attack was Indian in origin,but by the time they had prepped F-16s for launch it was over,as well as being out of reach of most Indian helicopters.
Just shows how little America trusts Pakistan.

Yeh, Bruce Willis only survived because the enemy where such bungling fools and bad shots. :rolleyes:

Bin Laden kill mission on RTE

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