funkfool
08-03-2011, 11:32
Found this a few minutes ago...
A Reporter At Large
Getting Bin Laden
What happened that night in Abbottabad.
by Nicholas Schmidle (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/nicholas_schmidle/search?contributorName=nicholas schmidle)
Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard. It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft.
Read more (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_schmidle#ixzz1Tt0uxUiO)
A Reporter At Large
Getting Bin Laden
What happened that night in Abbottabad.
by Nicholas Schmidle (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/nicholas_schmidle/search?contributorName=nicholas schmidle)
Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard. It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft.
Read more (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_schmidle#ixzz1Tt0uxUiO)