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Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
reply to post by esteay812
No. Official story is that the raid went down at 1:30 a.m. local time in Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011.
Originally posted by TheEndisNigh
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by -mytym-
I'm not sure what all the confusion is. Yes, it looks like Fox jumped the gun and released the news early, but as far as I was aware, it was common knowledge that the "alleged" assassination happened up to a week earlier than the announcement. This is what made the timing of the announcement so suspiciuos. Either you would announce it immediately (within a couple of hours), or you would wait until the Monday morning.
Yes, consider this though
The famous pakistani tweeter whom tweeted the "takedown" was on the 30th
see the inconsistancy yet?
I was just gonna say the same thing Saturn. You have 2 different sources claiming this was done well after the 28th.
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
reply to post by blupblup
It was May 2. We started waiting for him to speak at about 10:30 pm US ET Sunday night. He didn't speak until almost midnight. The raid took place on Monday, May 2, 2011 at 1:30 a.m. local time in Pakistan. That is 9 hours later than US ET.
Originally posted by blupblup
reply to post by SaturnFX
We have screenshots