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>>It is sure end of OsamaBL as world scene character, what really happened past couple of days we will most probably never know.
>>I do expect whole tsunami of dumb articles by main-sewerage media and bad movies comming out of Holywood, but hey we are used to it :))
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>I find it interesting that you are perfectly willing to believe a large group of CIA operatives who look like Pakistanis could pull it off, but not a Seal team... :o) Or did I miss sarcasm in that part? Not sure...

Well, maybe not CIA as they were much involved with Bin Laden in the past (he was their asset / money distributor), what I meant was, more or less ANY serious task force. Since they knew where he was from months ahead, he was practically sitting duck. Pakistanis would be able to arrest him alive, why not some serious US task force ? Instead he was killed, house swept for somputers, documents etc and then body swiftly disposed to the sea. Latest reports say he was shot unarmed.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/05/20115319011610215.html

What do you make of it ? My conclusion is that there was never any intention for him to be captured alive. If CIA carried out operation they would probably kill him TWICE, just to make sure he never gets chance to speak {g}
If Osama ever appeared in real court, there would be probably Krakatoa-type volcanoe of dirty clothes erupting to the surface, going back 6-7 administrations... Amongst other things, 9/11 investigation could have been reopened with major suspect in custody,
they could catch half if not more of AQ network, just by folowing various leads that could be extracted from him alive.
Obviosely these were not apealing goals to the planners of this operation.

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>Questioning everything makes sense (see my sig). The official story from the white house is already changing:
>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54162.html
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>And the 27 million reward:
>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/05/03/135929518/who-gets-the-27-million-reward-offered-for-bin-ladens-capture
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>Snippet:
>Intelligence officials say that key tips on the bin Laden courier network came from detainees, some of whom were exposed to enhanced interrogation tactics. Not exactly the people U.S. investigators would choose to get a huge payday.

This was mentioned in original AP 'article' as well, and will probably be reiterated over and over million times, until 'Gitmo=Good' became accepted public opinion. And this is exactly one of the reasons why I called AP 'artefact' - sleazy propaganda {g}