The Mission to get Bin Laden - A New Yorker Article

[funkfool]

Found this a few minutes ago...

A Reporter At Large

Getting Bin Laden

What happened that night in Abbottabad.

by 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.


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[jake]

Read this yesterday, it's a great article.

[Lex_Luthor]

Good read.

[Guylee]

I heard today that Wikileaks released the names of some of the operators. If that's true, whoever is running that deserves to receive 10 fold whatever anyone involved in the raids gets.

[mcantar18c]

I heard today that Wikileaks released the names of some of the operators. If that's true, whoever is running that deserves to receive 10 fold whatever anyone involved in the raids gets.

WTF.
1. Where the hell does he keep getting his information from?
2. With the scope of power and capability that the DOD, DHS, NSA, CIA, etc. have... why the hell haven't we found and put a stop to his sources?
3. Why is he still alive? I'm honestly shocked that he hasn't had a bad case of food poisoning, tripped down a staircase, or a heart attack in his sleep.

[Big Wall]

Great article. Thanks for posting the link.

[sniper7]

good article. good find