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Rumor: Batman to Appear in ‘Suicide Squad’, Leading Up to His Own Solo Film / David Duchovny Would Be ‘More Than Happy’ To Play Agent Mulder Again For The X-Files Return / Will We See The Grey ‘Savage Hulk’ In AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON? Al-Qaeda acknowledged his death on May 6, 2011, vowing to retaliate. [122][123], In Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace,[124] Leon Panetta wrote that bin Laden's body was draped in a white shroud, given final prayers in Arabic and placed inside a black bag loaded with 140 kg (300 lb) of iron chains, apparently to ensure that it would sink and never float. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)—also known as "Night Stalkers"—and operators from the CIA's Special Activities Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission Units. [224] Judicial Watch filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in August 2013, seeking U.S. Supreme Court review, but in January 2014 the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Aislado del mundo, Bin Laden vivió escondido en Abbottabad (Pakistán) desde 2005 con dos de sus cuatro esposas y varios de sus hijos y nietos. Afterward, bin Laden's body was placed onto a flat board. [151] In August 2011, Fox News reported that Pakistan had allowed Chinese scientists to examine the helicopter's tail section and were especially interested in its radar-absorbing paint. According to Pfarrer, neither helicopter crashed at the beginning of the raid. [286] Officials from the National Congress of American Indians said the focus should be on honoring the disproportionately high number of Native Americans who serve in the military, and they had been assured that "Geronimo" was not a code name for bin Laden. [34][55][58][117], While the official Department of Defense narrative did not mention the airbases used in the operation,[118] later accounts indicated that the helicopters returned to Bagram Airfield. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Watched - Wanted Custom. In Pfarrer's account, the total time elapsed from jumping on the roof to Osama bin Laden's death was between 30 and 90 seconds. Reports differ, though agree eventually he was hit by shots to the body and head. Pakistani officials were aware of the raid, and assisted the U.S. in carrying it out. He expressed his opinion that killing Muslims has weakened his organization and not helped al-Qaeda, writing that it "cost the mujahedeen no small amount of sympathy among Muslims. As a result, Osama bin Laden was killed several minutes into the operation. [24] Later in 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged operational chief of al-Qaeda, said he was acquainted with al-Kuwaiti but that the man was not active in al-Qaeda, according to a U.S. [99] According to journalist Nicholas Schmidle, one of bin Laden's wives, Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, motioned as if she were about to charge; the lead SEAL shot her in the leg, then grabbed both women and shoved them aside. Bin Laden opined that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden should not be a target because "Biden is totally unprepared for that post [of president], which will lead the US into a crisis. [278], Former Pakistani Army Chief, General Ziauddin Butt has said that, according to his knowledge, Osama bin Laden was kept in an Intelligence Bureau safe house in Abbottabad by the then Director-General of the Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan (2004–2008), Brigadier Ijaz Shah. According to the retired senior U.S. intelligence official speaking to Hersh, bin Laden was ill at this point, financially supported by some within Saudi Arabia, and kept by the ISI to better manage their complex relationship with Pakistani and Afghan Islamist groups. "[297][298] Although some information may have been obtained from detainees who were subjected to torture, Panetta wrote to McCain that: We first learned about the facilitator/courier's nom de guerre from a detainee not in CIA custody in 2002. [307] According to the material, he sought to reassert control over factions of loosely affiliated jihadists from Yemen to Somalia, as well as independent actors whom he believed had sullied al-Qaeda's reputation and muddied its central message. Lists that include Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden 2012. He called on Pakistan to arrest them. But, they had full authority to kill him. No other candidate fit the bill as well as bin Laden did. He also said that "in any event, we did not want anything to do with such an operation in case something went wrong. [61], Without being told the exact nature of their mission, the team performed rehearsals of the raid in two locations in the U.S.—around April 10 at Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity facility in North Carolina where a 1:1 version of bin Laden's compound was built, and April 18 in Nevada. "There was a real lack of confidence that the Pakistanis could keep this secret for more than a nanosecond," a senior adviser to the President told The New Yorker. forces. [74] None of the SEALs, crew, or pilots on the helicopter were seriously injured in the soft crash landing, which ended with it pitched at a 45-degree angle resting against the wall. [49] White House counterterrorism advisor John O. Brennan said after the raid: "If we had the opportunity to take bin Laden alive, if he didn't present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures." [33] It had two security gates, and the third-floor balcony had a 2.1-metre-high (7 ft) privacy wall, tall enough to hide the 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) bin Laden. [258], After the raid, there was an unconfirmed report that Pakistan allowed Chinese military officials to examine the wreckage of the crashed helicopter. [53][113][114][a] The SEALs also discovered a large amount of opium stored in the house. [181] The National Security Archive has criticized this maneuver, saying that the records have now gone into a "FOIA black hole": What the transfer really did was ensure that the files would be placed in the CIA's operational records, a records system that—due to the 1986 CIA Operational Files exemption—is not subject to the FOIA and is a black hole for anyone trying to access the files within. As a measure to bolster the "fight your way out" scenario, Chinook helicopters were to be positioned nearby with additional troops. At one point, Meyers joked: "People think bin Laden is hiding in the Hindu Kush, but did you know that every day from four to five he hosts a show on C-SPAN?" The board was tilted upward on one side and the body slid off into the sea. "Records of a CIA operation such as the (bin Laden) raid, which were created during the conduct of the operation by persons acting under the authority of the CIA Director, are CIA records. "[188] Former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf denied a report in The Guardian that his government made a secret agreement permitting U.S. forces to conduct unilateral raids in search of the top three al-Qaeda leaders. [276], On August 7, 2011, Raelynn Hillhouse, an American spy novelist and security analyst, posted "The Spy Who Billed Me" on her national security blog,[277] suggesting that Pakistan's ISI had sheltered bin Laden in return for a $25 million bounty; ISI and government officials have denied her allegations. "[196] Khalid Latif, an imam who serves as a chaplain and the director of the Islamic Center of New York University, argued that the sea burial was respectful. "[54], The CIA briefed Vice Admiral William H. McRaven, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), about the compound in January 2011. Four bin Laden grandchildren from an unidentified daughter who had been killed in an airstrike in Waziristan. All the Movies. Five minor children of Osama and Amal: Safia, a daughter, 12; a son, 5; another son, age unknown; and infant twin daughters. [25], In 2007, officials learned al-Kuwaiti's real name,[28] though they said they would disclose neither the name nor how they learned it. "The Associated Press's Case for Releasing the Bin Laden Photo", "A Look at Who's FOIAing the Bin Laden Death Photo", "Bin Laden Raid Records Shielded From Public In Secret Move", "Release of Department of Defense Information to the Media—Draft Report", "Secret Move Keeps Bin Laden Records in the Shadows", "Adm. William McRaven Shields Files About Raid On Osama bin Laden's Hideout From The Public", "Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows", "Unreleased: Probe Finds CIA Honcho Disclosed Top Secret Info to Hollywood", "Killing Was Legal Under U.S. and International Law, Many Experts Say", "Was Killing of Osama bin Laden Legal Under International Law? For that reason he ruled out involving the Pakistanis. Conspiracy theories abound", "Osama bin Laden killed: conspiracy theories proliferate in wake of raid", "Pakistan says had no knowledge of U.S. bin Laden raid", "The Detail in Seymour Hersh's Bin Laden Story That Rings True", "Panetta: U.S. [55], According to the mission plan, the first helicopter would hover over the compound's yard while its full team of SEALs fast-roped to the ground. [21], According to the earlier official version of his identification from a U.S. official, identification of al-Qaeda couriers was an early priority for interrogators at CIA black sites and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, because bin Laden was believed to communicate through such couriers while concealing his whereabouts from al-Qaeda foot soldiers and top commanders. Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Watching the operation in the White House Situation Room, Obama simply said, "We got him. [204], After bin Laden's death, it was reported he had left a will written a short time after the September 11 attacks[205] in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad. By 1:44 a.m. all was quiet until a plane flew over the city at 3:39 a.m.[138] Neighbors took to their roofs and watched as U.S. special operations forces stormed the compound. Hunter 5,108 films 5 9 Edit. The emails reveal that these Pakistani officers included "Mid to senior level ISI and Pak Mil with one retired Pak Mil General". [124], According to Obama administration officials, U.S. officials did not share information about the raid with the government of Pakistan until it was over. U.S. forces used multiple methods to positively identify the body of Osama bin Laden: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) analysis conducted separately by Department of Defense and CIA labs has positively identified Osama bin Laden. In the earlier versions, Al-Kuwaiti is said to have opened fire on the first team of SEALs with an AK-47 from behind the guesthouse door, lightly injuring a SEAL with bullet fragments. Two U.S. Air Force officers were tasked with exploring that option further. The team had language skills and experience with cross-border operations into Pakistan. [217][218], On May 11, selected members of Congress (the congressional leadership and those who serve on the House and Senate intelligence, homeland security, judiciary, foreign relations, and armed forces committees) were shown 15 bin Laden photos. The Nevada mock-up used chain-link fences to simulate the compound walls, which left the U.S. participants unaware of the potential effects of the high compound walls on the helicopters' lift capabilities. We've curated a list of lesser-known films to help you explore the space-time continuum from the comfort of your couch. Posts tagged osama bin laden. Hillhouse's sources stated that the Pakistanis had been keeping bin Laden under house arrest near their military headquarters in Abbottabad with money provided by the Saudis. The Pakistani government denied that it had sheltered bin Laden, and said it had shared information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies about the compound since 2009. It is likely that the most valuable information obtainable from the wreckage was the composition of the radar-absorbing paint used on the tail section. Osama bin Laden stuck his head out of a bedroom door, saw the SEALs, and slammed the door closed. This is not one of them. Pakistani officials say they informed their American counterparts at the time that the city could be a hiding place for al-Qaeda leaders. "[303] On November 1, 2017 the CIA released to the public approximately 470,000 files and a copy of bin Laden's diary. [22] One of those claims came from Mohammed al-Qahtani, a detainee interrogated for 48 days more or less continuously between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003. 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Mukasey: The Waterboarding Trail to bin Laden", "Mukasey responds to McCain's op-ed—PostPartisan", "Our view: If torture led to bin Laden, do ends justify the means? 7.1. Osama Bin Laden. "We here become reassured of the people when they go to the line and get examined there",[302] bin Laden said. [14] Also controversial was the decision not to release any photographic or DNA evidence of bin Laden's death to the public. [116] Another member of SEAL Team Six said the story as presented in Esquire was false and "complete BS". The Razor 2 team cleared the guest house and then breached their way into the main house with explosives. [56], In addition to a helicopter raid, planners considered attacking the compound with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers. Two may be the boys, around 10, who spoke to Pakistani investigators. "[186], David Scheffer, director of the Northwestern University School of Law Center for International Human Rights, said the fact that bin Laden had previously been indicted in 1998 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for conspiracy to attack U.S. defense installations was a complicating factor. An unnamed Pakistani security official was quoted as saying one of bin Laden's daughters told Pakistani investigators that bin Laden had been captured alive, then in front of family members was shot dead by U.S. forces and dragged to a helicopter. Only Vice President Joe Biden completely opposed it. [314] They included letters to and from Osama bin Laden in the year before his death, and showed the extent of the damage the CIA drone program had done to Al-Qaeda. The Associated Press reported at the time two U.S. officials as stating the operation was "a kill-or-capture mission, since the U.S. doesn't kill unarmed people trying to surrender", but that "it was clear from the beginning that whoever was behind those walls had no intention of surrendering". Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was one of those in the Situation Room, and described it like this: "Contrary to some news reports and what you see in the movies, we had no means to see what was happening inside the building itself. [62], If bin Laden surrendered, he would be held near Bagram Air Base. Hillhouse's account was picked up and published internationally. Other Chinooks, holding 25 more SEALs from DEVGRU, were stationed just across the border in Afghanistan in case reinforcements were needed during the operation. All about the movies: trailers, photos, screenshots, screencaps, wallpapers, comments, movies rating "[67] Two other command centers monitored the raid from the Pentagon and the U.S. embassy in Islamabad. [294], U.S. officials[295] and legislators, including Republican John McCain[296] and Democrat Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, countered that those statements were false. [287] The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs heard testimony on the issue from tribal leaders, while the Defense Department had no comment except to say that no disrespect was intended. [39], The CIA led the effort to surveil and gather intelligence on the compound; other critical roles in the operation were played by other United States agencies, including the National Security Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and U.S. Defense Department. From: haim@consonet.com Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List! [282][283], Several officials who were present in the Situation Room, including the president,[216] told reporters that the code name for bin Laden was "Geronimo". [200] A professor of Islamic Law at the University of Jordan stated burying at sea was permitted if there was nobody to receive the body and provide a Muslim burial,[201] but that "it's neither true nor correct to claim that there was nobody in the Muslim world ready to receive bin Laden's body". [207], A source told ABC News that the photos taken by the military servicemen on the scene depict the physical damage done by a high-caliber bullet. Gates advocated using the drone missile option but changed his support the next day to the helicopter raid plan. 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