Politico Has The Play By Play Of The Mission To Get Bin Laden

[WillyT]

Getting bin Laden: How the mission went down
By: Mike Allen
May 2, 2011 10:32 AM EDT

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The helicopter carrying Navy SEALs malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound at about 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday, stalling as it hovered. The pilot set it down gently inside the walls, then couldn’t get it going again. It was a heart-stopping moment for President Barack Obama, who had been monitoring the raid in the White House Situation Room, surrounded by members of his war cabinet.

“Obviously, everyone was thinking about Black Hawk Down and Desert One,” a senior administration official recalled.

The SEALs disembarked. “The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home,” an official said.

The special forces put bombs on the crippled chopper and blew it up, then lifted off in a reinforcement craft just before 4:15 p.m., capping an astounding 40 minutes that gave the United States a tectonic victory in the 10-year war on terror touched off by 9/11.

“The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden,” Obama said at the White House Monday.

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Much More: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7D181FF4-6397-4A45-8348-AC91337F22CA

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[XemaSab]

1. To get Obama?

Really? :shrug:

[virgogal]

5. Good catch,I didn't even notice it.

[sufrommich]

2. You mean Osama. nt

[maddezmom]

3. You might want to edit

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[WillyT]

12. Done... Thanks...

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:dunce:

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[mucifer]

4. so many people are doing this. It's ok I think I heard Thom Hartmann mix up the names. nt

[virgogal]

10. Even a teabagger could do it. Mistakes are made.

[Peacetrain]

6. Freudian Slip there??

Bin Laden.. not as much chance of messing up the names

[DevonRex]

7. If you call him bin laden you won't make that mistake

[WillyT]

9. Point Taken...

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:dunce:

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[DevonRex]

11. It happens to the best of us. :)

[Paradoxical]

8. It seems as though the US has a history of helicopter malfunctions.