The Murder of Osama Bin Laden. U S Pakistan Partners in Crime Seymour Hersh

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I'm no expert on night raids, but from the top my head I can think the pros for this particular one can be:

1. Less witnesses / spectators

People these days tend to record everything on their mobiles, which would've made the afterwards "story telling" difficult. Though I think landing, blowing up, taking off of the choppers would've made for some awesome footage.

2. Crowd control

Doubt 1 or 2 US soldiers would have been enough to hold off the crowd. They would've needed local support for that, which would imply joint venture of the op.

3. The element of Surprise / less resistance

In 2011 US and Afghan forces conducted 2,200 night missions and during those raids rarely was a single shot ever fired. So it appears its easier to surprise / capture whilst the enemy is in bed.

4. General perception about midnight and broad daylight

The inaction of Pak forces for this op during night, is probably more comprehensible to the general populace's perception, than their inaction during broad daylight.

 

[ZooZoo]

If it is true...

Then Pakistan betrayed Good Taliban... Now So called good Taliban will take revenge on Pakistan.. Bad Talibans are already fighting a war..

 

[MastanKhan]

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I'm no expert on night raids, but from the top my head I can think the pros for this particular one can be:

1. Less witnesses / spectators

People these days tend to record everything on their mobiles, which would've made the afterwards "story telling" difficult. Though I think landing, blowing up, taking off of the choppers would've made for some awesome footage.

2. Crowd control

Doubt 1 or 2 US soldiers would have been enough to hold off the crowd. They would've needed local support for that, which would imply joint venture of the op.

3. The element of Surprise / less resistance

In 2011 US and Afghan forces conducted 2,200 night missions and during those raids rarely was a single shot ever fired. So it appears its easier to surprise / capture whilst the enemy is in bed.

4. General perception about midnight and broad daylight

The inaction of Pak forces for this op during night, is probably more comprehensible to the general populace's perception, than their inaction during broad daylight.

Hi,

Actually majority of raids of this type are conducted at night time---. The special gear for night combat gives advantage to the special forces---day light tends to eve out the odds----.

As a person has to sleep sometime and it is normally at night---and he cannot stay awake 24 / 7---so the special forces can conduct their raid at the most suitable hour to them when a normal person's reflexes are very slw and when he I not expecting anyone

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Seymour has about as much credibility as Jesse Ventura or Alex Jones.....................HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA !!!!!!!

he exposed abu ghraib

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/opinion/will-anyone-pay-for-abu-ghraib.html?_r=0

We have some great minds and writers here, how about we get together whip up the "Real bin Laden story" quote a few anonymus Pakistan intelligence sources. We need idea and like any good story it needs sex corruption and the Americans need to be to blame. The sales from the book could go to Webby to help fund PDF

and meanwhile why dont you bhartis cook up another low budget bollywood flick with cheap keyboard sound effects and riveting plot twists encompassing dawood ibrahim - and the babu-baniyas of yours who cant seem to decide where his whereabouts are (or are conveniently playing politics b/c they know this mystical dawood character lines the pockets of your bookies, bollywood execs and thriving criminal underworld

so go at it!!!

 

[RabzonKhan]

No doubt Mr. Seymour Hersh is a great American investigative journalist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up. He is also famous for his widely read reports on Abu Ghraib prison torture of prisoner’s scandal. But that was in 2004, since then some of his work has come under criticism but this report takes the cake.

One wonders how a man of his caliber can write a piece like this. But wait a minute, the worst part is, it is not even an original story, exactly the same story was published in 2011 by a blogger R J Hillhouse.

Please read it and see if you can find any difference in the two stories!?

Here is the link:

The Spy Who Billed Me: Bin Laden Turned in by Informant -- Courier Was Cover Story
August 07, 2011

Bin Laden Turned in by Informant -- Courier Was Cover Story


Here’s another example of poor research.

Mr. Seymour Hersh wrote:

“It was inevitable that the Obama administration’s lies, misstatements and betrayals would create a backlash. ‘We’ve had a four-year lapse in co-operation,’ the retired official said. ‘It’s taken that long for the Pakistanis to trust us again in the military-to-military counterterrorism relationship – while terrorism was rising all over the world … They felt Obama sold them down the river. They’re just now coming back because the threat from Isis, which is now showing up there, is a lot greater and the bin Laden event is far enough away to enable someone like General Durrani to come out and talk about it.’ Generals Pasha and Kayani have retired and both are reported to be under investigation for corruption during their time in office.”

Now, how many Pakistanis will agree with the Mr. Seymour Hersh ridiculous claims?

Are we really facing such a huge threat from the ISIS?

And are Generals Pasha and Kayani under investigation for corruption during their time in office?


That’s all for today, see you tomorrow.