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Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill
- Thread starter 8ace
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Tonight 900pm C4, looking forward to this 
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,189
Funnily enough, The Septics said that Bin Laden was shot " while resisting arrest " strangely, if you break in to a house in America and you are shot dead, the homeowner will not be charged as he is defending his property. If only The CIA could have tricked Bin Laden in to breaking in to a suburban house in the good 'ol US everything would have been much neater.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
If these people were prepared to drive 100 miles to make on mobile phone call they are serious.
skipper734
Registered ruffian
Blackhawk 1 is down. ( Here we go again.)
Kazenga <3
Test 805843
Love these sort of documentaries, tonight's was a cracker.
NorthStandN1A
Member
The scene when they shot him made me feel good. The SEALS did the business.
NorthStandN1A
Member
I wish they would publish the pictures of dead Bin Laden.
SirElliotBennett
New member
Just finished watching it on +1. Brilliant documentary!
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,099
The big thing I take from the documentary is what a gutsy call Barack Obama made to give the green light. His advisers were split and the chance of Bin Laden being in the compound was judged to be 50/50.
Not only that but Obama also vetoed the other option of sending a missile in to take the compound out - something George W Bush would probably have done at the first opportunity.
Not only that but Obama also vetoed the other option of sending a missile in to take the compound out - something George W Bush would probably have done at the first opportunity.
ROSM
Well-known member
Fantastic documentary - an awful lot of new stuff in that. I know it was a dramatisation but can you imagine being a SEAL and training to get a taregt for 3 months before finally being told who it was and realising it was Public Enemy Number 1.
Also the attempts to identify the 'pacer' as Bin laden by calculating the height in the sky of the sun and measuring shadows to see if he was 6 foot 4inches
Also the attempts to identify the 'pacer' as Bin laden by calculating the height in the sky of the sun and measuring shadows to see if he was 6 foot 4inches
Tricky Dicky
New member
But why - do you just want to see them ? For anyone who doubts they actually killed him, do you think a photo would convince them ? I doubt it. The program was quite interesting, not sure there was enough in it to last 1:40 though. It did make me wonder, if it had gone wrong, would we ever have heard about it ?
ROSM
Well-known member
Well we certainly heard about the botched Tehran Embassy rescue - especially when one of the Mullahs picked through the corpses on television to show 8 skull bones and 16 legs when the US had said it was 7 personnel who had been killed and the Iranians claimed 8.
Tricky Dicky
New member
That was 30 years ago (?), I'm sure we would have heard something as it was being tweeted as it was still going on. Was just an idle thought while I watched it, no biggie.
NorthStandN1A
Member
2 reasons:
1. It would help me believe it, although I think he was killed, this would put no doubt in my head.
2. I want to see him dead. He killed thousands, I want to see him with a bullet in his head.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
It was a very interesting program shedding some light on what was clearly a very delicate operation.
I am convinced had Bush been President when this happened we would still be hearing about it today and Obama can take a lot of credit in just dealing with something that had to be done given what Bin Laden had done or sanctioned to be done to others.
I am convinced had Bush been President when this happened we would still be hearing about it today and Obama can take a lot of credit in just dealing with something that had to be done given what Bin Laden had done or sanctioned to be done to others.
Albion Robster
Well-known member
Awesome programme. Very interesting stuff.
I was quite surprised Obama and his associates talked/released all that information less than six months later...normally The Yanks like to keep everything hush hush for years. Fair play to them, probably helps the country restore some faith.
I was quite surprised Obama and his associates talked/released all that information less than six months later...normally The Yanks like to keep everything hush hush for years. Fair play to them, probably helps the country restore some faith.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,501
Say a British soldier was killed by the Taliban and they published photos of the bloody corpse on the Internet- would people not find that slightly insulting or offensive? At the very least, disrespectful.
If the Americans did the same with Bin Laden's body, no doubt there would be plenty of Muslims up in arms about it for the same reason. Why give him another chance to rally people to the cause, even after he's dead? If there was even the slightest chance he was still alive, the Taliban and AQ would be bragging about it still and making massive capital out of another US failure to capture him. He's dead. I don't need a photo to tell me that.
If the Americans did the same with Bin Laden's body, no doubt there would be plenty of Muslims up in arms about it for the same reason. Why give him another chance to rally people to the cause, even after he's dead? If there was even the slightest chance he was still alive, the Taliban and AQ would be bragging about it still and making massive capital out of another US failure to capture him. He's dead. I don't need a photo to tell me that.