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Safia Bin Laden Family Speaks Out About Raid, Says Her Father Was Executed

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A member of the bin Laden family is coming forward to give a new account of the events surrounding the raid on Osama bin Laden‘s Abbottabad compound. Safia bin Laden, one of the terrorist leader’s daughters, is said to have told Pakistani officials that her father was alive when he was captured, then killed at point-blank range on the ground floor of the compound.

There have been conflicting reports coming out of the White House (He was killed in a firefight… unless there was no firefight at all. He used his wife as a human shield, except, no, he totally didn’t. He was armed when he was shot, or possibly only reaching for a weapon.), and accounts of what actually happened that day are further muddled with Safia’s alleged testimony. Currently, the White House contends that bin Laden was killed on the second or third floor of the compound and that he was not “executed” in the fashion Safia describes.

Outside the Beltway’s James Joyner echos the feelings and mounting frustration of many who just want to know what happened that day:

But the administration has not covered itself in glory in the public handling of the aftermath. As Stephen Green puts it, “The plan for killing Osama Bin Laden was perfectly conceived and as perfectly executed as any special forces operation since Israel’s raid on Entebbe. But the follow-through has been strange at best, sometimes bordering on incompetence.”

Expect the timeline of events to grow further twisted as more bin Laden family members and others at the compound speak out to Pakistan (and not, presumably, to the U.S.), while keeping in mind that, as Oliver North put it recently, it is often difficult to obtain a clear account of a military mission of this nature, at least not until all the details of the day are brought to light and everyone properly debriefed.

h/t UPI

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  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Good! I wish there was a way to bring him back to life so we can execute him again.

  • msblkwidow

    Ouote…”as Oliver North put it recently, it is often difficult to obtain a clear account of a military mission of this nature, at least not until all the details of the day are brought to light and everyone properly debriefed. ”

    I agree with Oliver North. I knew, when the flurry of stories hit the News outlets, that these stories had not been verified. I think, anyone who reported this story incorrectly should apologize to the American people. How dare they report untruths. Shoty reporting. What in the world has become of good reporting.

  • Barack Must Go

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Good! I wish there was a way to bring him back to life so we can execute him again.

    You’ve hit upon a great concept for a video game. ” Killing Osama bin Laden , Let Me Count The Ways “.

    He Osama would walk from room to room in his Pakistani villa / fortress, each room would several ways for the individual player ( seal 6 cammando ) to kill the bastard.

  • WHarropson

    OK fine. As long as we can all agree that he’s dead.

  • Barack Must Go

    ” Safia Bin Laden Family Speaks Out About Raid, Says Her Father Was Executed. ”

    ” Safia bin Laden, one of the terrorist leader’s daughters, is said to have told Pakistani officials that her father was alive when he was captured, then killed at point-blank range on the ground floor of the compound. ”

    Houston we’ve got a problem………..again.

    DNA analysis of location of bin Laden blood on floor, walls, etc at the scene will tell whose not telling the truth, for then 9th time in 4 days.

  • WCinWI

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Good! I wish there was a way to bring him back to life so we can execute him again.

    Wow – you have a lot of rage. Your thinking is NOT normal for normal people. You might want to get your mental capacities looked at.

  • lane

    Enough! Witnesses to any even, minor or important, recount the details differently. The Obama team does need to keep a consistent story from the white house, but their clarifications were an attempt to be precise about an action that by definition in imprecise.

  • tatboy

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Good! I wish there was a way to bring him back to life so we can execute him again.

    Maybe we can clone him and kill him at every halftime show during the Superbowl for the next 100 years? And no I’m not kidding.

  • lane

    Alex, your story was fair, and the north quote was perfect. I just wish people would separate that while the Whie House needs to stop contradicting itself, the actual details would, in truth, not be consistent since people watch the same thing and usually do have different recounts of what happened. You nicely did that in your post, my previous post was about hearing this story everywhere, not your specific post which was very fair. If they had a delete, I’d delete it.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    WCinWI said:
    Wow – you have a lot of rage. Your thinking is NOT normal for normal people. You might want to get your mental capacities looked at.

    Yes it should all be candy and roses against the terrorist who murdered 3,000 of our citizens. Don’t you have to go Teabag Scott Walker or something?

  • Pablo

    msblkwidow said:
    I agree with Oliver North. I knew, when the flurry of stories hit the News outlets, that these stories had not been verified. I think, anyone who reported this story incorrectly should apologize to the American people. How dare they report untruths. Shoty reporting. What in the world has become of good reporting.

    It used to be that they’d leave such briefings to the Pentagon. But there was a victory lap to be had, so they let Jay Carney screw it up.

  • TerryDo

    WHarropson says:

    OK fine. As long as we can all agree that he’s dead

    *******************
    If Osama bin Laden was not dead, he would have had a video already sent out to the world, laughing at the incompetence of the Navy Seals 6 and Obama.

    Obama killed Osama and now al Qaeda has ordered a hit of their own…

  • SnowSoul

    Hmm, he was executed? For some reason, I just feel a little happier.

    tatboy said:
    Maybe we can clone him and kill him at every halftime show during the Superbowl for the next 100 years? And no I’m not kidding.

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2044#comic

  • wake up america

    He was executed because that would mean if kept alive his miranda rights would have to be given to him. Eric Holder didn’t want to give him his miranda rights. Which he had said he would do if captured. Giving him the miranda rights would anger most american people. Now let’s look at that for a moment. Kill him because he doesn’t have to be tried in a court of law. Now if it was the bush administration the left would make noise because he was executed. If water boarding is inhuman, what is executing someone. The left will tell you no torture, but killing a human, weather abortion, or execution, no problem. But whatever you do, don’t torture. So yes I think the daughter is speaking the truth. Pictures will tell exactly how he was killed, hence, don’t release the pictures. Interesting how the left like your women on the view aren’t screaming bloody murder. Because we all know that the left have such big hearts.

  • Mia Kulper

    When bin Ladin bombed two of our embassies in Africa, he made public declaration where he claimed “credit” for killing those hundreds of people in those attacks. He also issued a declaration of war on all Americans in his statement. His fate was sealed well before 9/11/01.

  • Phocus2

    “Safia Bin Laden Family Speaks Out About Raid, Says Her Father Was Executed”

    Good. The 3000+ he killed may rest easier.

  • valkyrie101

    Barack Must Go said:
    DNA analysis of location of bin Laden blood on floor, walls, etc at the scene will tell whose not telling the truth, for then 9th time in 4 days.

    Eventually the SEAL members themselves, including he who pulled the trigger, will clarify the record. I would be surprised if the Seal team was not equipted with audio/video.

  • Mia Kulper

    What I really meant to say in my previous post is that I think the USA had every legal right to kill bin Ladin on sight.

    Bin Ladin publicly claimed “credit” for killing hundreds of people and issued a public declaration of war on all Americans back in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa.

  • “Real” American

    Pablo said:
    It used to be that they’d leave such briefings to the Pentagon. But there was a victory lap to be had, so they let Jay Carney screw it up.

    And from the get-go there was Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC and any other outlet that could find a live body to put in front of a camera to “explain” the “facts” and supply opinions, re-enactments, suppositions, revisions, more facts, rewrites, assertions, animations, all even before the WH had not (and probably still has not) seen the final intel take and debriefs on the raid. Senators who had seen pictures suddenly had not “actually” seen the pictures. Guns appeared and disappeared and then reappeared. There was video, but then the video had a gap. Clinton was gasping or maybe coughing. Pakistan is our good trusted friend that we don’t trust. bin Laden was shot right out of the box, then bin Laden was shot after the Seals had tea with him and discussed the upcoming U.S. election and his upcoming U.S. tour. The bin Laden was shot after a 10,20,40 minute firefight when he was near a gun, or tossing his wife (“take my wife…PLEASE!) at the Seal, when he was resisting. Then there was a photo, no photo, photo, no photo. Conservatives were overjoyed. Conservatives deplored the murder. Liberals were dancing in the street. Liberals pronounced the raid illegal.

    Probably the WH should have simply said OBL (or UBL if you are Fox) is dead. More details next week.

    But that does not fit the 24 hour news cycle and in 24 hours of news, a lot of words are required. Some true, some less so.

    There will always be confusion with events like this. Nowadays the blogosphere enhances the BS factor by about 10000X.

  • Singer

    On September 28, 2001, The Pakistani Newspaper Ummat had the following article: “The Al-Qaidah group had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks on the USA, according to Usama bin Ladin, in an interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat.”

    The full text of the interview can be found at 911 Review.com.

    Bin Laden is quoted as saying ” I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United states. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act”.

    There is the added question of the Benazir Bhutto interview by the BBC several months before she was killed, now being run as back edited/ unedited versions on You Tube. The unedited one was run only once during the day, and all the following re-runs were edited. In it, when asked who she thought might try to assassinate her, she named several people, one of whom she said was the one who murdered Bin Laden in 2001.

  • Singer

    2) In his previous speech, he disclaimed any responsibility for the attack but sympathized with the men who carried it out. In it, he went on to describe the conditions imposed on his own people at our hands in our avaricious grab for their oil. He said he could not understand the difference where when the Russians invaded, they fought back and were called heroes and when we invaded and they fought back, they became terrorists.

    To date, over 1,400,000 civilians – men, women and children, have died at our hands either directly or indirectly because of the war. This was published some time ago by Lancet. Our anger at the killing of 3500 of ours is justified but no more so than what they must feel at the loss of so many more of theirs.

  • Wisco

    Yes, let’s trust a woman who was living in bin Laden’s inner circle.

    I’m sure she’s extremely credible.

  • Larkinvos

    Who CARES how it was done?
    It was, “a consummation devoutly to be wished.”

  • D REX

    maybe OBL daughter ought to write to Rush Limpballs……he seems to be the only assh@le –well along with Insannity Hannity and Dork Levine—that seems to be botherd by the fact that Osama was innocent and defenseless when shot

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  • CAconservative

    Retribution, murder, executed, call it what you want the man got what he richly deserved. And in the end, this terrorist died like the coward he was.

  • 78Thomas

    The killing of Bin Laden is being totally over analyzed. They found him and killed him. And that’s that. What the real question is what will the fall out be with Pakistan. The cat is out of the bag on the issue of Pakistan harboring and supporting terrorism. Just ask an Afghan or an Indian (person from India).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Amazing how credible the right suddenly finds members of the binnie Laden family. Maybe the Tealibaggers can attend the next radical Islam prayer meeting. They can all pray for that dead sonuvabitch’s soul and chant Death to America, too

  • tgk

    Bill Adkins said:
    Amazing how credible the right suddenly finds members of the binnie Laden family.

    On what are you basing this statement?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    On the cumlative behavior and comments from the right, John Yoo to fat ass Limbaugh.

  • X-3

    Yeah, execution is what you do to murderers. Your ol’ man was a mass murderer. Too bad he didn’t suffer more.

  • X-3

    78Thomas said:
    The killing of Bin Laden is being totally over analyzed. They found him and killed him. And that’s that. What the real question is what will the fall out be with Pakistan. The cat is out of the bag on the issue of Pakistan harboring and supporting terrorism. Just ask an Afghan or an Indian (person from India).

    BINGO!!!!!

  • o0samm0o

    If you execute a murderer for being a murderer, than what does that make you..? There’s is no honor in taking a man’s life. And no point either, since he’s dead and his only punishment was feeling his last breath leave his body. A trial and a rotting away in a cell for the rest of his life would have more of the desired punishing effect. 
    And on top of that, there is absolutely no honor in the way Americans and lapdogs have been meddling with the non-western politics for the last few decades. Can anyone say hypocritic and egoistical? (God bless America, but no allahu akbar..? like.. what? >.<)I'm not trying to say that arabian politics has been all sunshine and rainbows, im just saying that you shouldn't be proud of terrorizing not just a country but a part of the world for a decade because of 1 terrorizing act of 1 man. 

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