Nestled in an affluent neighborhood, the compound was surrounded by walls as high as 18 feet, topped with barbed wire. Two security gates guarded the only way in. A third-floor terrace was shielded by a seven-foot privacy wall. No phone lines or Internet cables ran to the property. The residents burned their garbage rather than put it out for collection. Intelligence officials believed the million-dollar compound was built five years ago to protect a major terrorist figure. The question was, who?
The CIA asked itself again and again who might be living behind those walls. Each time, they concluded it was almost certainly bin Laden.
The full story of how it went down comes via Yahoo!, no doubt you already have, but if you haven't read the entire thing.
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WE GOT HIM
Mixed Emotions
I am glad we got him and I love reading about the take down. I am very unhappy with the title of this post. I now have the awful Lee Greenwood "Proud to be an American" song in my head. I hate, hate, hate that song. He sang at like every Steeler opener for about 5 seasons and I wanted to puke or worse each time. I am not saying the song is good or bad, just that I would rather watch high(low)light tapes from '06 - '07 of the VT quarterback who will not be named than listen to even 1 chord of this song. That being said it has been a great week outside of my crushing work schedule with the news of the killing of OBL. I can't wait to discuss this with him when I see him in hell. Oh yeah, I am going to hell, just ask my wife or fans of any school that isn't VT after I have had between .5 or 14 pilsners. These newspaper headlines sum up my feelings sans music better than I can in words.
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