Monday, August 1, 2011

How they got Bin Laden

This is an absolutely  fascinating article of how they got Osama Bin Laden.
Not only the actual raid, but the behind the scenes...

You can read it HERE

Here are two of many sections I thought were interesting:

...Most notably, the President intensified the C.I.A.’s classified drone program; there were more missile strikes inside Pakistan during Obama’s first year in office than in George W. Bush’s eight. The terrorists swiftly registered the impact: that July, CBS reported that a recent Al Qaeda communiqué had referred to “brave commanders” who had been “snatched away” and to “so many hidden homes [which] have been levelled.” The document blamed the “very grave” situation on spies who had “spread throughout the land like locusts.”...
 (after they had located OBL in that compound they weren't 100% sure it was him so...)
...The C.I.A. intensified its intelligence-collection efforts, and, according to a recent report in the Guardian, a physician working for the agency conducted an immunization drive in Abbottabad, in the hope of acquiring DNA samples from bin Laden’s children...

1 comment:

Kevin said...

I liked the fact that they got sandwiches from Costco