The stealth drone that is known as the "Beast of Kandahar" (since a picture of it was taken in Kandahar) was apparently used in the raid on Bin Laden. Pakistani radar obviously did not pick it up.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Beast of Kandahar was used in raid on Bin Laden
The Raid
Image taken from The Daily Mail
As soon as they realised what was happening, Bin Laden’s guards opened fire from the rooftop with rocket-propelled grenades and apparently managed to shoot down one of the Black Hawks.
A White House official said it was a heart-stopping moment for Barack Obama, echoing the disastrous ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident in Somalia in 1993 which left 18 US servicemen dead.
This time, the crew escaped unhurt and the team went ahead with the raid ‘even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home at the end’, said the official.
As terrified townsfolk emerged from their homes to see what was going on, Pashto-speaking CIA agents told them to go back in and shut the doors.
Two dozen U.S. Navy Seals – special forces – wearing night-vision goggles dropped into the high-walled compound by sliding down ropes from Chinooks.
They stormed inside to secure the terror chief’s hideaway room by room, with head cameras relaying the action to the President and the director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, who was overseeing the operation at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Following the shootout with Bin Laden, his body was carried out and taken away in one of the helicopters. Three men, including one of his sons, and a woman, who tried to act as a human shield to save him, were also killed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382860/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-Abbottabad-raid-ended-10-years-defiance-Obama-watched.html#ixzz1LIpolnD0
Friday, June 18, 2010
'We will throw them into the sea'
With this video , you can guarantee that Israel will still be called murderer's , and Israel will still be blamed for the whole incident !
The Jerusalem post
New footage from the Mavi Marmara was released by the Foreign Ministry on Friday afternoon, this time showing IHH head Bülent Yildirim inciting to violence against Israeli commandos hours before the encounter that claimed the lives of nine Turkish passengers.
“We follow in the footsteps of the martyrs,” Yildirim could be seen declaring to a large crowd of activists. “You shall see, we will definitely claim one or two victories.”
Monday, May 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Senior Al Qaeda member killed in U.S. raid in Syria, officials say
As Syria denounces the US raid into Syria as 'terrorist aggression', it turns out the raid took out a major facilitator of terrorism, Abu Ghadiyah. LA TimesReporting from Washington -- U.S. commandos crossing into Syria in an unprecedented raid this weekend killed a senior Al Qaeda associate accused of funneling fighters, weapons and cash to the insurgency in Iraq, U.S. officials familiar with the operation said Monday.
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Abu Ghadiyah, the chief of a Syrian smuggling network who was killed in the controversial operation Sunday, was "one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, facilitators of foreign fighters going into Iraq for Al Qaeda," a senior U.S. official said.[...]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said the U.S. committed "criminal and terrorist aggression" by conducting a raid in which seven civilians died, including three children, a woman and a fisherman.Abu Ghadiyah, an Iraqi native believed to be in his late 20s, has for several years been a key figure in the flow of foreign fighters and weapons into Iraq, American officials said.
"He comes from a family of smugglers," said the senior U.S. official. "He seems to have turned the family business toward the movement of terrorists, explosives, weapons, etc., into Iraq."
Monday, September 15, 2008
Pakistani Army Blocks US Helicopter Raid
The Pakistani army and local tribesman blocked a US helicopter raid into Pakistan. Two US helicoptes were forced to turn around after coming under fire. This is the latest example of the Pakistani army defending the dirty terrorists.AKI
Wana, 15 Sept. (AKI) - The Pakistani army and local tribes on Monday were reported to have blocked an attempt by US troops to stage a fresh attack against militants in the region bordering Afghanistan.
Sources cited by Pakistan's Geo News, said US troops aboard two helicopters were trying to enter Pakistan near Angoor on the border when local tribes and Pakistani troops resisted the move and opened fire, forcing the helicopters to return.
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