[LINK] bin Laden is dead

[Jan Whitaker]

At 03:27 PM 4/05/2011, Jan Whitaker wrote:

>The 'odd' thing about this is that the whole
>National Security Council was sitting there
>watching the mission happen, or at least that's
>what we are told they were watching. Knowing a
>little bit about video channels and switching, I
>gotta wonder who was directing the 'show'.

[yep, what I said]

http://www.theage.com.au/world/vision-dropout-raises-question-of-what-president-was-watching-20110505-1ea5h.html
THE head of the CIA has admitted that there was no live video footage 
of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged 
about the US version of events.

  Leon Panetta said there was a 25-minute blackout during which the 
live feed from cameras on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.

  A photograph released by the White House appeared to show the 
President and his aides in the situation room watching the action as 
it unfolded. In fact, they had little knowledge of what was happening 
in the compound.

  ''Once those teams went into the compound, I can tell you that 
there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really 
didn't know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very 
tense moments as we were waiting for information,'' Mr Panetta said. 
''We had some observation of the approach there, but we did not have 
direct flow of information as to the actual conduct of the operation 
itself as they were going through the compound.''

  Mr Panetta also disclosed that the US Navy SEALs made the final 
decision to kill bin Laden rather than the President. ''The authority 
here was to kill bin Laden,'' he said. ''And obviously, under the 
rules of engagement, if he had in fact thrown up his hands, 
surrendered and didn't appear to be representing any kind of threat, 
then they were to capture him. But they had full authority to kill 
him. To be frank, I don't think he had a lot of time to say anything. 
It was a firefight going up that compound. And by the time they got 
to the third floor and found bin Laden, this was all split-second 
action on the part of the SEALs.''

  The President knew the mission was successful only after the Navy 
SEALs commander heard the word ''Geronimo'' on the radio, a code word 
from commandos reporting that they had killed bin Laden.

  The absence of footage added to the confusion about what happened 
in the compound.

  According to Pakistani authorities, one of bin Laden's daughters, 
who was present during the raid, claimed that her father was captured 
alive before he was killed. TELEGRAPH



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