>>>>>But why do all that ?? Since they knew where he was, why they did not simply arrested him more quietly and alive ?
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>>>>>Because the man was the mastermind behind the plot that killed thousands of innocent American citizens.
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>>>>>I just won a bet with myself - that you'd be the one saying something like this. People rarely change.
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>>>>Conversely, you did not surprise me at all by writing this. Will not comment on this any further.
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>>>>>The U.S. served notice to the world today - kill our innocent citizens and we will hunt you down like an animal, no matter how long ago it was. Remember that in 1983, we had a very good idea of who killed our boys at the Marine barracks in Beirut - and Ronald Reagan did NOTHING, for fear of retribution.
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>>>>What about if they have sent 200-300 commandoes in civilian clothes who stormed the building during the night
>>>>and capturing more or less everybody there alive. Then take them into military custody, interrogate, convict etc.
>>>>World would receive much much better message.
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>>>Message?? 300 commandos in Pakistan in civilian clothes??
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>>>You really are out of your depth on this. I kind of think the people with the skill to pull off what is probably one of the greatest operations of this type in history understand a little more about what the options and realities of the situation were.
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>>You want to tell me that CIA cannot put together unit of operatives who look pretty much like Pakistanis, dress them in civilian clothes
>>transport them to the town some days ahead of operation, and then do all this much more efficiently ? Why is this so far fetched ??
>>CIA is not Mosad, but why do you underestimate them that much {g}
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>Are pages 2 and 3 of the story below the same story you are being given by the media?
>http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13512344&page=1
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>The only piece that is questionable to me is the sea burial...the rest is a typical surgical operation...it may or may not be what actually occurred, it may or may not be all of the information or story (you can pretty much guarantee it's not), but it's a realistic (and not that different from previous similar actions) standard surgical operation...(he's probably in a brig on a ship right now or he is dead and they have the body :o)

I liked the line "Thanks to sophisticated satellite monitoring, U.S. forces knew they'd likely find bin Laden's family on the second and third floors of one of the buildings on the property,"

Yeah, I'd call that sophisticated satellite monitoring. Wow.