And now Pakistan has some explaining to do

[rjmacs]

billb wrote:
You could have hidden him in your basement for quite a while with enough money, too.
It's not like he had his name on the mail box out front.

We'll probably find out they could have taken out the compound with B-2 bombers months ago.

Certainly looks like all involved made damn sure this was the end of the road this time. ( with an identifiable body)

My money is on assuming he was there by tracking for months the people coming and going, especially family members.

Actually, from the analysis i've read it seems that we weren't certain that Osama bin Laden was actually there until we found and killed him. This uncertainty was part of what delayed the operation, but for some reason or another President Obama decided that the evidence was sufficient to send in the Seals. I suspect that he was (understandably) concerned that OBL might have been surrounded by women and children, and a bloodbath could be a terrible outcome. It seems only one woman was killed (and several more injured) in this raid.

[Mac1337]

The fact that the woman was killed says the rules of engagement was to shoot all human shields. Interesting precedence.

[OWC Jamie]

Dakota wrote:
The fact that the woman was killed says the rules of engagement was to shoot all human shields. Interesting precedence.

That's highly illogical

Allah sharing secret video with you ?

[Black]

Dakota wrote:
The fact that the woman was killed says the rules of engagement was to shoot all human shields. Interesting precedence.

That's a huge leap, even for you.

[Chakravartin]

Dakota wrote:
That's my point. Now that I see the pictures, if accurate, it doesn't look anything like a compound. It is a dilapitated cinder block home...

A "compound" is a fortified multiple-dweller house or a fortified series of housing units connected together.

Those pictures show a "compound" and other compounds nearby.

Stop being so stupid.

[$tevie]

A "compound" can also simply be a cluster of buildings surrounded by a wall or fence, the fortified part isn't a prerequisite. For example, the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port or the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, both of which have security of course but I wouldn't define them as being fortified.

It occurs to me that perhaps this is Dakota's problem: he thinks a "compound" has to be a mansion of some sort.

[Mac1337]

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
That's my point. Now that I see the pictures, if accurate, it doesn't look anything like a compound. It is a dilapitated cinder block home...

A "compound" is a fortified multiple-dweller house or a fortified series of housing units connected together.

Those pictures show a "compound" and other compounds nearby.

Stop being so stupid.
I don't care how many cinder block huts you string together. It is still no "compound". You are the stupid one who can see the car barely squeezed in there and still call it a compound. Besides, what do you care so much if it is a compound or not? Do you have the naming rights? Now, this is a compound.

[Chakravartin]

Dakota wrote: You are the stupid one who can see the car barely squeezed in there and still call it a compound. Besides, what do you care so much if it is a compound or not? Do you have the naming rights?

If you scroll up a bit, you'll see that YOU are the one who is making a fuss about whether or not it's a compound.

And it's pretty stupid to obsess over that element of the event.

I'll just assume that you're very bored and short on caffeine today.

[$tevie]

Maybe he gets paid for every nit he picks.

[rankandfile]

$tevie wrote:
Maybe he gets paid for every nit he picks.

That's gonna make the chimpanzees mad.